FIRST LEGO LEAGUE

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE


What is First Lego League?

First Lego league (FLL) is a competition in where lots of teams try to win, doing the best robot and the most original project of the competition.  There can be a big number of teams, but it’s around twenty teams at the first call.
First Lego League is an international competition for elementary and middle school students; this competition is organized by FIRST and the most collaborated is LEGO.
The team work out solutions to the various problems they are given and then meet for regional tournaments to share their knowledge, compare ideas and display the robots
In 1999 “First Lego League” inaugurated the first international competition, but until 2004 there wasn’t celebrated in Spain because the government hasn’t promoted this competition.


Where is celebrated?

Each team participates in his provincial capital. The team who win participate in the Spanish final. The best Spanish team must choose go to the Europe final or American.
In Catalonia the classificatory it celebrated in Barcelona, Lleida, Girona and Tarragona. The Spanish final location change every year.


How is the competition?

Every year First Lego League launches a new topic that based on a real life problem.
The court evaluates 3 parts:
-The values First Lego League
-Development of the robot
-Scientific project

The values First Lego League:
In that part the observation judges watch at all times the behaviour of the team and evaluate her enthusiasm, respect and knowledge.

Development of the robot:
The robots are the most beautiful part of the competition; the teams made her robots, which robots are autonomous and complete missions on a board. The robot then has two and half minutes to complete the missions. Each mission has its own score.
The teams can change all the parts of the robots; these robots can be more efficient and competitive.
The robot programme is the most important part because the robot missions depend for this programme.

Scientific project:
The teams have to search information and develop one project related to the topic of the year. The court evaluates the originality, the search and the application in the real life.

I think that “First Lego League” is a way to motivate students as this may provide many improvements, but Spanish government don’t take advantage of these young talents. The government can help the young talents because they will be the future of Spain.



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