Sessions 4 and 5 with FIRST Lego League Junior

These sessions focused on specific challenges that will be faced by living on the Moon.

Session 4: Water on the Moon

The team tackled questions of finding ice then melting, transporting, filtering, storing, and using the water. Lots of ideas came forward and the team members were able to build their prototypes.

Crush, melt, scan, and pipeline to personal water storage.
Vehicular transport of melted ice (I LOVE the colors).
Storage, transport, and filtration machines.
High-speed distillation during high-speed transport.

Then the team built and programmed two different machines using the Lego WeDo 2.0 system.

“Sweep”
Modified build to automatically unload cargo from shuttle.

Watching them work together, exchange ideas, take turns, and have fun while bringing their creations to life is the most rewarding part of any session for me.

Session 5: Energy on the Moon

How will we get energy for our Moon Base? How will we store it? Use it?

The team had to work hard on their ideas and came up with some great builds.

Guest Coach Sadie brought her own fuel.

The team then built and programmed “Grab.” With each session the builds become more challenging and the team has to advance their assembling and coding skills.

“Grab”
“Grab” modified into a crunching machine. In lieu of Moon ice, a minifigure is crushed.

This week we’ll be taking on more challenges involving life on the Moon and I look forward to sharing our solutions.

God bless,
Jason