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What is FIRST® LEGO® League Challenge?
Eagle Robotics offers the FIRST® LEGO® League Challenge for Grades 6-8 to introduce students to the fun and experience of solving real-world problems by applying engineering, math, science, and technology. FIRST LEGO League Challenge is an international program for children created in a partnership between FIRST and the LEGO® Group in 1998. Each year, the program announces an annual Challenge to teams, which engages them in authentic scientific research and hands-on robotics design using LEGO MINDSTORMS® technologies. After a minimum of eight weeks, the FIRST® LEGO® League season culminates at high-energy, sports-like tournaments. In the 2017/2018 season, more than 280,000 students participated in nearly 90 countries. |
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What is the LEGO Group's Role?
The LEGO Group is the Founding Partner of FIRST LEGO League. Since its inception, the LEGO Group has supported the growth and success of the program by contributing each year to the development, management, and funding of customized Challenge Sets, Robot Sets, marketing communications resources, volunteers, and more. During the 2015/2016 season, LEGO Education became a FIRST Strategic Partner.
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What is FIRST's Role?
FIRST is responsible to provide:
• The overall vision and mission to inspire young people’s interest and participation in science and technology. This vision guides all FIRST decisions and led to the development of the FIRST LEGO League program. • The FIRST LEGO League program includes developing the annual Challenge, the standards for the program and Championship Tournaments, and supporting program documents. |
What is the student impact?
What characterizes the student experience?
The FIRST LEGO League experience is rooted in real-world issues. Every year, as FIRST LEGO League designs the Challenge, we look to the real-world practitioners and experts in the chosen subject area for guidance, input, and opinion, so that children are engaged in practical and realistic activities.
For the 2017/2018 HYDRO DYNAMICS Challenge, FIRST collaborated with experts in the fields of water purification, wastewater collection, environmental compliance, hydrology, agriculture, medicine, and more. These experts made up the Challenge Advisory Team, which included representatives from DEKA Research & Development, Washington State University, and the Institute for Water, Environment & Health at United Nations University, among others. These specialists collaborated with FIRST to create a theme and challenge missions that reflect how we find, transport, use, and dispose of water.
For the 2017/2018 HYDRO DYNAMICS Challenge, FIRST collaborated with experts in the fields of water purification, wastewater collection, environmental compliance, hydrology, agriculture, medicine, and more. These experts made up the Challenge Advisory Team, which included representatives from DEKA Research & Development, Washington State University, and the Institute for Water, Environment & Health at United Nations University, among others. These specialists collaborated with FIRST to create a theme and challenge missions that reflect how we find, transport, use, and dispose of water.
