FIRST® LEGO® League promotes friendly-competition and prepares students to become future leaders with the skills necessary to enter the workforce. Research, communication, problem solving, teamwork, time management, coding, and engineering are just the beginning of the skills learned through this program.
Each year, teams are tasked with solving a real-world problem - the Innovation Project - and designing, building, and programming a LEGO robot to complete missions for a robot game.
For the Innovation Project, students research existing solutions, consult experts, and present in front of judges at an event. Previous challenges have included recycling, hydrodynamics, long-term space travel, and public buildings and spaces.
As the theme changes, so does the robot game. Students code a LEGO robot using Scratch, LEGO MINDSTORMS, and/or Python, to complete as many missions as possible within a 2.5-minute time frame.
Teams are encouraged to mentor one another, share and learn skills from one another, and connect with their local and global community. The
FIRST
Core Values
are the cornerstones of the program, distinguishing
FIRST
LEGO League from other programs of its kind. By embracing the Core Values, participants learn that friendly competition and mutual gain are not separate goals, and that helping one another is the foundation of teamwork.