The Sharon Youth Robotics Association is based in Sharon Massachusetts, participating in FIRST LEGO League since 2000.
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Files and Documents

Useful and/or interesting materials for download.  (Right-click link & choose to Save Target As)

eDocuments (downloadable)

Designing for FLL with LEGO Mindstorms - Hints and Tips (54 slides, .pdf format)
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SYRA Coaching 101 PowerPoint presentation
 (71 slides, .pdf format).


Photos from FLL competitions in MA over the years - teams and robots (ideas?).

Download a .pdf FLL Team Information Sheet.

Download a .pdf FLL Tournament Participant Consent form.

Download .pdf directions to the Worcester state tournament.


FIRST LEGO League - the unofficial guide (Kelly & Daudelin, no starch press 2008)


FIRST Building and Coding Resource Page

NXT Resources

Winning Design! LEGO Mindstorms NXT Design Patterns for Fun and Competition (Trobaugh, Apress 2010) exceptional!

Building Robots w/ LEGO MindStorms NXT (Astolfo, Ferrari & Ferrari, Syngress 2007)

LEGO MindStorms NXT-G Programming Guide (Kelly, Apress 2007)
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EV3 Resources

Winning Design! LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Design Patterns for Fun and Competition (Trobaugh, Apress 2017) - exceptional!

Your Guide to Excel in FIRST LEGO League (Dwivedi, Amazon Digital Services 2017) - new and very topical!

Winning LEGO Mindstorms Programming
(Trobaugh & Lowe, Apress 2012) - FLL applicable coding guide

Programming LEGO EV3 My Blocks
(Harding, Apress 2018) - new FLL coding ideas

LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Discovery Book 
(Valk, No Starch Press 2014) -  good building and programming general reference

Unofficial LEGO Technic Builders Guide 
(Kmiec, No Starch Press 2016) - good reference for LEGO mechanical assemblies

The LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Idea Book
(Isogawa, No Starch Press 2016) - great mechanical ideas for EV3

TechBrick website page for EV3 Resources - always useful resources!

BuilderDude35 website - cool Youtube tutorial videos

EV3Lessons.com - focused on coding

​LEGO.COM - Learn to Program EV3



Presentation Resources

Youtube videos of various FLL Project Presentations from previous seasons

Youtube videos of various FLL Technical Presentations from previous seasons
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