What is FIRST® LEGO® League?
FIRST® LEGO® League introduces young people, ages 9 to 16 (grades 4-8), to the fun and excitement of science and technology while building self-confidence, knowledge, and valuable career and life skills. The program challenges kids to think like scientists and engineers. Alongside adult mentors, teams solve problems and learn engineering concepts, presentation techniques, and programming.
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Children
Learn teamwork skills
Build self-confidence, knowledge, and career and life skills
Research challenges facing today’s scientists
Design, build, and program autonomous robots
Engage with their community
May compete in tournaments and present their solutions to a panel of judges
Team
Apply math and science concepts to research, design, build, and program autonomous robots
Use LEGO MINDSTORMS® technologies
Gain hands-on experience solving real-world problems
Learn from and interact with adult mentors
Work as a group to overcome obstacles and meet challenges
Tournament Experience
Opportunity to participate in qualifying events and tournaments
Culmination of a minimum of 8 weeks of teamwork and mentoring
Teams compete with their peers in high energy, sports-like events
Teams present their solutions to a panel of judges
Team awards presented include research, presentation, mechanical design, robot performance, and teamwork
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