About our FIRST LEGO League Challenge Season
Over the course of roughly 12 weeks, teams of students in grades 4-8 engage in research, problem-solving, coding, and engineering – building and programming a LEGO® robot and conducting a research project to identify and solve a relevant real-world problem related to the annual theme. The 2024-2025 season features a STEAM themed game called SUBMERGED. In the SUBMERGED℠ challenge, FIRST® LEGO® League teams will use creative thinking and LEGO® technology to explore the layers of the ocean and bring their learnings and ideas to the surface as they “sea” into the future. Teams will need to come up with creative ideas for ways to share ideas with audiences and communicate with audiences of any size.
PROGRAM GRANTS – PRC partners with the Department of Defense STEM to ensure FIRST LEGO® League Explore teams receive program grants in the 2024–2025 school year to register their teams with FIRST.
EVENTS – FIRST LEGO League Challenge teams prepare all season to compete at FIRST Mid-Atlantic sponsored tournaments, where judges provide valuable feedback on their robot, code, and Innovation Project. The final test of their work comes at the Robot Game table, where they race against the clock for a personal best score and the chance to advance to a local championship. A Coalition run year-end competition event called RoboJawn caps off the season.
To learn more about this season and tournament in Philadelphia, check out this season’s information page.