Welcome to the MASTERPIECE season

In MASTERPIECE, the team will imagine and innovate new ways to create and communicate art across the globe.
Watch this video for more details and see this year’s Challenge Set and Robot Game.

FIRST LEGO League Challenge 

The FIRST LEGO League Challenge is an international competition organized by FIRST for elementary and middle school students (ages 9–14 in the United States and Canada, 9–16 elsewhere) to introduce and inspire robotics for kids.

At the beginning of the competition season, FIRST sends a set of official competition materials to each registered team. The teams also receive a list of tasks, called ‘missions’, to complete involving each model on the challenge mat. The robot must be autonomous and has two and a half minutes to complete the missions; called the Robot Game.

In addition to the Robot Game, the competition has additional judged sections. The first judging session, Core Values, is designed to determine how the team works together and uses the FIRST LEGO League Core Values in everything they do, which include inspiration, teamwork, Gracious Professionalism, and Coopertition. Secondly, in Robot Design, or technical judging, the team demonstrates the mechanical design, programming, and strategy of their robot. Thirdly, in the Innovation Project, the students must give a 5-minute presentation on the research of a topic related to the current challenge. The team must identify a problem that is related to the topic of that year’s competition, then create an innovative solution to their identified problem by modifying something that already exists or creating something completely new and then they must share that solution with others, such as real-world professionals who have expertise in the annual challenge theme.

The teams first go to a “Qualifier” and if they perform well in all 3 judged areas, they advance to the next level of competition, which is a Regional-Level event.

Proven, Verifiable Impact!

• 87% Express Interest in Doing Well in School
• 95% Time Management Skills Increase
• 99% Teamwork Skills Increase

MASTERPIECE Resources

🎤 MASTERPIECE videos, building instructions, and more.