Chapter 4. Finding Equipment, Mentors, and Funding

As your team progresses through the FLL season, you’ll discover that certain resources can be extremely beneficial to your success. We group these into three categories: equipment, funding, and team mentors. Some of these resources are optional, while others are absolutely critical.

Finding funds and gathering resources isn’t always the most glamorous aspect of participating in FLL, but some indispensable items, such as laptops, pens, paper, and plenty of LEGO bricks and TECHNIC pieces, cost money, so raising funds and finding equipment is definitely an important activity. In addition to finding the needed supplies, a team also needs to find a way to pay for them. And once a team has the necessary ...

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