llinois Students Apply Research and Robotics to Explore in the FIRST ® LEGO® League Challenge
Creativity and science will come together at this weekend's FIRST® LEGO® League Illinois Championship Events at Elgin Community College, 1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin Illinois where 108 teams of 9- to 14 year-old students and coaches will demonstrate their problem-solving skills, creative thinking, teamwork, competitive play, sportsmanship, and sense of community. The tournament is open to the public. The robot table competition portion of the event starts at 1:00 PM on both Saturday January 18th , 2020 and Sunday January 19th, 2020
More than 310,000 students in approximately 100 countries will participate in CITY SHAPER. Teams will have to program their LEGO MINDSTORMS® robots to solve a set of missions on an obstacle course set on a thematic playing surface.
For the CITY SHAPER Challenge, FIRST collaborated with experts in the fields of architecture, civil engineering, infrastructure, sustainability, and urban planning. These experts, who made up the Challenge Advisory Team, helped to create a theme and challenge missions that reflect what it takes to design and construct practical, sustainable, and beautiful buildings and spaces catering to the diverse needs of their users.
The competition is judged in three areas: Innovation Project; Robot Design, and Core Values, which embody aspects of teamwork and good sportsmanship. Top robot game scores are also honored.
FIRST LEGO League is an international program for 9- to 16-year-olds (ages vary by country) created in a partnership between FIRST and the LEGO Group in 1998 to get students excited about science and technology - and teach them valuable career and life skills. Using LEGO® MINDSTORMS® technologies and LEGO® Education materials, students work alongside adult mentors to design, build, and program autonomous robots and create an innovative solution to a problem as part of their research project. After several intense weeks, the competition season culminates at high-energy, sports-like tournaments. Like any other organized "sport," teams also fundraise, create a team identity, and go on field trips.
Currently in its 21st year, FIRST LEGO League anticipates participation by approximately 38,800 teams in more than 100 countries competing in hundreds of Qualifying Tournaments and Championship Tournaments. About 310,000 students will compete to win honors and recognition. Teams will also have the opportunity to participate at the FIRST LEGO League World Festivals, to be held in conjunction with the FIRST Championships in Houston and Detroit in April.
This weekend's Championship Tournaments are being run by FIRST Illinois Robotics, a 501 c3 organization focused on delivering FIRST programs in Illinois. Contact us for a list of the area schools and youth organizations with teams participating in the competition.