FIRST® LEGO® League Challenge Overview
FIRST LEGO League® is a science, technology, engineering, and math program for a team of 3 to 10 members in 4th-8th grades. The competitive season begins in late August when the new scientific theme is revealed. Students showcase their work at Oregon qualifying tournament competitions in December, followed by two championship tournaments in January. FIRST LEGO League challenges teams to solve a real-world problem with their own innovative solution and to design, build, and program a LEGO robot to manipulate LEGO models based on real world challenges. Team members do all of the work guided by their adult coaches and mentors, while using FIRST Core Values. The CARGO CONNECTSM theme runs from August 2021 into 2022 in Oregon. On August 17, 2021, FIRST conducted the kick off for the season including two interesting videos:
Teams are self-forming and must be registered with FIRST to participate in the current season.
Free online workshops covering coaching a team and guiding a team learning about programming.
Oregon season calendar and other information.
Frequently Asked Questions: Coaching FIRST Lego League Challenge Teams in Oregon During a Pandemic
Click here for ORTOP Season Registration information.
A variety of information that should be useful to FIRST LEGO League coaches and mentors can be found at www.ortop.org/wiki
If you have additional questions, please send them to fll-questions@ortop.org.
