Here's a thread from some time ago on LEGO Mindstorms robotics. http://giftedissues.davidsongifted.org/BB/ubbthreads.php/topics/36427/1.html

If you have any other questions after reading that, let me know. Dottie has some experience w/ FLL. I do LEGO robotics at home with my kids. We own two of the NXT1.0 kits. LEGO just came out w/ a new kit, NXT2.0. I also own the LEGO Education NXT software as it contains the data logging software which the retail version of the software doesn't have. But the retail version has some cool plans for robots which the education version doesn't have.

There are so many good books out there. A good one is by Jim Kelly titled LEGO MINDSTORMS Mayan Adventure. he is about to come out w/ a 2nd book similar to this one. The robotics revolves around a story which is fun for the kids.

I 2nd and 3rd the NXTPrograms site! It is definitely our fortunate that Dave provides that free of charge!