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VIQRC Session 7

Congratulations! You competed in your first VIQRC event! You learned so many things from your competition day experience. In this session, you will celebrate your successes and reflect on your competition experience with your team. 

Three girls in matching team outfits and hairdos are walking away from the camera, with their arms around each other, after a match.

You will first complete a reflection activity about what went well, and what you learned from other teams. Then you will come together to figure out how your team can apply your learning moving forward this season. 

Before you begin, make sure you have your engineering notebook ready to document your plans.

Watch the video below to get started.

Activity: Choice Board Reflection

Now that you've been to your first VIQRC event it's time to reflect on your team's successes and what you learned from others throughout the competition. You will choose one of the activities in the choice board below. Once everyone has completed the activity, you will share what you create with your team. Two boys in glasses and matching robotics team shirts and hats jump excitedly with their arms in the air beside a game field to celebrate a match.

Choice Board

Interview

Pretend you're a reporter! Record yourself asking one or two teammates about the competition. What part of the day went really well? What’s something interesting your teammate noticed another team doing?

Make a Poster

Design a colorful poster to show off your team’s best moments. Include pictures or drawings and explain one cool thing your team learned from another group.

Storyboard

Draw a comic-style storyboard with 3–5 scenes that tell a story about your competition day. Show what you saw another team do and how that helped your own team.

Journal Entry

Write a journal entry like you’re telling a friend about the competition day. What were highlights for your team? What is something another team did that gave you an idea?

Slideshow

Make a slideshow with photos from the event. Add short captions that explain what went well for your team and what you learned by watching other teams compete.

Newspaper Article

Write a front-page news story about your team’s success. Use exciting headlines and describe what made your day great — and what you learned from watching other teams.

Wrap-Up

Now that you have completed your choice board activity, it is time to come together to reflect as a team. Share what you made in the choice board activity. Once everyone has shared their creations, have a whole team discussion about what you would like to do before your next competition.

How can you take what you learned and apply it moving forward?

As a team, discuss these questions:

  • What is one strategy idea you want to try to apply? What would you need to do to accomplish that?
  • What is one robot design idea you were inspired by? How could you bring that idea to life? 

Make sure to record your ideas in your engineering notebook, so you have documentation of what you want to try to do next. 

Three students from two different teams high five to celebrate a match beside a VIQRC field.

You can return to sessions 4 or 5 to help you iterate on your strategy or robot design as you try to implement your ideas for improvements. After your next competition, return to this session to help you reflect and prepare once again.

Good luck and have fun this season!

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