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DEVELOPING A TEAM IDENTITY

PRETTY SMART POWER GIRLS


MEET THE TEAM
¡ Pretty Smart Power Girls
are a team of friends from
Noordhorn, Groningen,
The Netherlands
¡ All-girls team
¡ 4th year in FIRST LEGO
League
¡ 2018 BeNeLux Champions
(Hydro Dynamics)
¡ FIRST World Festival
Detroit, MI 2018

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WHY DEVELOP A TEAM IDENTITY?
¡ It helps with team building: finding out about your team’s identity also
strengthens your team by appealing to a common denominator for all team
members.
¡ It helps with team recognition: having a well-defined identity makes
you easily recognizable and other teams and volunteers will be able to
remember you in different seasons and competitions
¡ It helps make an impression on the judges: FLL is a judged sport.
Judges will recognize and appreciate your efforts at establishing a fitting
team identity.
¡ It is fun. No explanation needed.

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GET TO KNOW YOUR TEAM

¡ Some of your team identity can be planned.


Others get added over time.
¡ The best way to find an identity that matches
your team and your teammates is to do
many Core Value / Team Building exercises.
¡ You can find lots of ideas on
FLLtutorials.com

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AN IDENTITY FOR ONE SEASON AND BEYOND

One time: build an Prolonged: build an


identity for a single season identity for multiple seasons

¡ Maybe your team only ¡ You aim to participate over


competes once in FLL multiple seasons and want
¡ You want to emphasize the
to remain recognizable.
season’s theme ¡ You want to emphasize
your team’s identity or
personality

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CHOOSING A TEAM NAME
¡ Theme based: Base your team name on the season’s
theme. For the Hydro Dynamics season a lot of teams
had ‘hydro’, ‘aqua’ or ‘water’ in their names.
¡ Examples: Hydrabots, Water BuffaLEGOs, Aqua Challengers, The
Hydro Haulks. Pros: Fits current theme, spectacular. Cons: One
time use
¡ Location or Organization based: Base your name
on your city or school.
¡ Examples: Princeton Unimators, Pennsylvania's Finest Robotics,
Cadmes Creators, Frencken’s Future. Pros: Easily identifiable,
reusable. Cons: sometimes less memorable
¡ Fantasy Name: Make up your own name. It can be
anything you and your team are comfortable with. It can
be descriptive or completely made up. Be creative!
¡ Pros: Spectacular, reusable, easily identifiable, creative. Cons: Maybe
your school or sponsor wants to included

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CASE STUDY: COMING UP WITH OUR NAME
¡ We wanted an international sounding name, so we chose an
English name although we are from the Netherlands.
¡ We are all girls. So”Girls” should be in the name.
¡ We make fun of “pretty” being THE defining quality for girls.
We are just as smart as boys.
¡ So we came up with Pretty Smart Girls. Our coach explained
that in English Pretty Smart can mean different things, it is a
pun. Pretty is “beautiful”, but also “quite”. And Smart is
“intelligent”, but also “Stylish, fashionable”. The combination
“pretty smart” can mean many things!
¡ POWER is an acronym for what we do (in Dutch):
Programming, Onderzoek (research), Wetenschap (science),
Experimenting, Robotics.
¡ All combined makes us Pretty Smart POWER Girls.

Whatever name you pick, make sure it has a meaning for your team.

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DEVELOPING A TEAM LOGO
¡ Every team needs a name
¡ A team logo is optional, but fun!

¡ We have a colorful logo that


represents our fun and diveristy and
passion for science.
¡ The words in the logo have a
typeface that matches their meaning.
¡ We have different logos for
online/print and for shirts. But they
are still easily identifiable.

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SHIRTS AND HATS HELP CREATE AN IDENTITY
¡ Our shirts vary every season. We started simple, but
as we got more experienced, we also put more time
into our appearance.
¡ We always wear some kind of hat. It’s just so much
more fun!
¡ This year we also added sweaters and jackets
Our robot and shirts match!

Christmas hats in december


Dutch hats, makeup and ribbons
for internationals

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TEAM CHEERS

¡ Having a cheer, yell or a song can define


you as a team.
¡ You can add to your identity by creating a
yell or cheer that is unique and enhances
your team presence.
¡ Maybe you can even add dance moves!

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FLAGS, BANNERS, MASCOTS

¡ Flags are a good way


to show where you
are from. (Country,
state, city, or school)
¡ Banners
Photo: Dutch Delta
¡ Mascots

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SOCIAL MEDIA
¡ Also very important for establishing
an identity: online presence!
¡ Facebook, website, instagram,
twitter, youtube,…
¡ Talk about your team, your goals
and dreams, the team members,
your project, and any other amazing
findings
¡ Use these social media sites to
share and inspire!

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TIP: BE AUTHENTIC
¡ No matter what identity you have or want to create,
always be authentic, be true to who you are as a team.
¡ For example, if you are all shy kids, don’t create an image that you are
extroverted party people. Or if you are cheery bouncy kids, don’t try
the “professional” look. Do what makes you happy!
¡ Don’t copy an other teams’ identity just because they
seem succesful. It probably won’t work for you. See above.

Pretty Smart supporting the


Droids at 2018 Detroit World
Festival

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CREDITS

¡ This lesson was written by Pretty Smart Power Girls


(https://www.facebook.com/prettysmartfll/)
¡ More lessons for FIRST LEGO League are available at
www.flltutorials.com

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