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[quote=calexander][quote=Anonymous]What is the point of this?  Is it for kids that are accelerated?  What happens when they end up back in their mediocre DCPS without gifted programming? Or is the point to just get kids to grade level?[/quote]

The point is to introduce STEM topics to young children so that it will spark an interest that they might explore later in their academic careers.

The FLL missions serve a wide range of ability levels.  Some missions can be done by the typical fourth grader while there are others that the typical eighth grader would have no chance in hell of successfully completing.  There were 361 teams registered in the state of  Maryland this past year and not a single one of them completed the "hard" mission at the state tournament at UMBC.

The important note is that this is a global competition that serves kids up to age 14; if you think your elementary kid is really accelerated, this would be a good opportunity for her to show it.  Most of the teams that actually advance from the state tournament to the nationals are composed of late middle school students who have experienced FLL for multiple years.

Here is a link to learn more about the [url=http://www.firstinspires.org/node/3461]curriculum[/url] for FLL for the upcoming year.[/quote]

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