We worked with groups in both our projects on the First Lego League Challenge. We engaged with the young people to develop their STEM skills over the 12 week programme. They followed instructions and guidelines to build all the lego cargo pieces. When all the elements of the lego where built we then supported the young people to programme the autonomous Lego robot to solve a series of missions.
During the 12 weeks we seen the core values of discovery, innovation, inclusion, impact, teamwork and fun develop in all the group participants.
We worked with groups in both our projects on the First Lego League Challenge. We engaged with the young people to develop their STEM skills over the 12 week programme. They followed instructions and guidelines to build all the lego cargo pieces. When all the elements of the lego where built we then supported the young people to programme the autonomous Lego robot to solve a series of missions.
During the 12 weeks we seen the core values of discovery, innovation, inclusion, impact, teamwork and fun develop in all the group participants.
First Lego League introduces science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) to children from the age of 4-16 through fun, exciting hands-on learning.
We have combined two of Youth Work Ireland Louth’s projects in Drogheda to make up our team. We have youth workers from the YWIL Southside Project and YWIL Boyne GYDP and our Regional Director .
We are going to target 12 young people, 6 from each project to take part over 12 weeks in a First Lego League Challenge. These young people will be 12-15 year olds.
This challenge is designed to develop key skills with young people that are crucial for future careers. We are looking forward to creating this opportunity for the young people to work together to explore topics and to design, build and programme an autonomous Lego robot to solve a series of missions.
We will ensure the 6 core values are developed on with the young people over the course of the programme. These include discovery, innovation, inclusion, impact, teamwork and fun.
Our plan is to use the seed funding to register for the class packs.
We hope to promote this learning and engagement on our Facebook pages.
Any extra money we would love to host a event to demonstrate the learning and skills developed. We hope to use peer mentors to assist the young people with the 12 weekly activities.
