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FIRST LEGO League

The University of Rochester is a proud partner with FIRST® as a scholarship provider to high school seniors. Additionally, the University is an operational partner for the NY Finger Lakes region FIRST® LEGO® League and Junior FIRST® LEGO® League programs. This 2019–2020 season celebrates our twenty-year partnership.

The Finger Lakes region is home to over 180+ FLL and 20+ Jr.FLL teams and is growing each year. In 2004, our first year of operation, we had less than twenty teams with one tournament held in the region. Today, we have ten regional qualifying tournaments, which send high performing teams to advance to the championship tournament at the University of Rochester.

2017 Finger Lakes Regional Championship

View Qualifying Teams

2015 Finger Lakes Regional Championship

View Championship Awards

2014 Finger Lakes Regional Championship

View Championship Awards

2014 Finger Lakes Regional Championship

View Robot Game Scores

Announcements:

A BIG Shoutout is in order for The Eight Magneteers from Saint Louis School in Pittsford, who have advanced to the finals of this year’s FIRST Lego League Global Innovation Award!  Selected from the nearly 40,000 FLL teams international, The Eight Magnateers idea for Magnetic Dodgeball, was selected as just one of 20 finalists. The team will be travelling to San Jose for the award ceremony on July 2nd.  A live stream of the event will be webcast from https://www.twitch.tv/firstinspires, at 2:00pm PT.

 

We wish them the best in their quest of “All for Fun, and Fun For All”!

 

Follow their journey…

https://www.facebook.com/tmagneteers/

Sponsors:

Support for the FIRST® LEGO® League & Jr. FIRST® LEGO® League Programs is made possible by the University of Rochester and many others sponsors here locally. Our top level sponsors include:

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XEROX

About FLL & Jr. FLL

What is FIRST LEGO League?

The best way to summarize FIRST LEGO League is to say that it is a robotics program for nine- to sixteen-year-olds (nine to fourteen in US/CAN/MEX), designed to get children excited about science and technology and teach them valuable employment and life skills. FLL can be used in a classroom setting but is not solely designed for this purpose. Teams composed of up to ten children with at least one adult coach can also be associated with a pre-existing club or organization, a home school environment, or just be a group of friends who wish to do something awesome.

In FLL, the children do the work! And the work is programming an autonomous robot (using the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® robot set) to score points on a thematic playing surface, creating an innovative solution to a problem as part of their project, all while being guided by the FLL Core Values. These three elements—the Robot Game, Project, and FLL Core Values—make up what we call our yearly Challenge. Like any other organized “sport,” teams also fund-raise, create a team identity, and go on field trips. To see some of our teams in action, visit our YouTube, or read about their experiences on our blog.

First LEGO League

What is FIRST LEGO League Jr?

Focused on building an interest in science and engineering in children ages six through nine, Junior FIRST LEGO® League (Jr.FLL) is a hands-on program designed to capture young children’s curiosity and direct it toward discovering how science and technology impact the world around them. This program features a real-world challenge to be explored through research, critical thinking, and imagination. Guided by adult coaches and the Jr.FLL Core Values, team members work with LEGO elements and motorized parts to build ideas and concepts and present them for review.

Each yearly Challenge is based on a different theme and has two main parts, the LEGO Model and the Show Me Poster.

Junior First LEGO League

FLL Challenge

2019–2020 FLL Challenge & Resources

CITY SHAPERSM coming in August, 2019.

Resources

Coming Soon

Jr. FLL Challenge

2019–2020 Jr. FLL Challenge

BOOMTOWN BUILDSM coming in August 2019.

Regional Events & Registration

What is FIRST LEGO League?

Congratulations to all of the teams that participated in this years qualifying & championship tournament!

Specifically this year’s 2017 Qualifying Tournament Participant, including those that progressed to the Finger Lakes Regional Championship A Big Congratulations to this year’s Championship Awards Winners!
As well as to this year’s FLL Jr. Award Winners!

How to Start a Team

FIRST® LEGO® League and its partners do not start teams themselves; rather, teams start on their own, through schools, clubs, community organizations, neighborhoods, or a willing parent with room to spare!

Due to privacy laws, we cannot provide existing team information. FIRST does not guarantee that users will find a team through the FIRST TeamUp System. TeamUp is a community-driven system, and information provided is based on information voluntarily entered by other users. Think of it as a database of users looking to connect to form new teams. If you would like to connect with others interested in FLL or Jr.FLL, please create an account for FIRST TeamUp.

 

Starting an FLL Team in 6 steps:

FIRST has provided step-by-step guidelines to starting a team and explains things like costs, organization, equipment needed, commitments, etc., and above all, how to have fun during this process. You do not need to have an engineering background or have any technical skills.

 

Starting a Jr.FLL Team in 5 steps:

Anyone can start a Jr.FLL team. All the materials needed to run a team are provided. All it takes is the willingness to help the team and a couple of hours out of your week. You do not need an engineering background or have any technical skills

Due to privacy laws, we cannot provide existing team information. FIRST does not guarantee that users will find a team through the FIRST TeamUp System. TeamUp is a community-driven system, and information provided is based on information voluntarily entered by other users. Think of it as a database of users looking to connect to form new teams. If you would like to connect with others interested in FLL or Jr.FLL, please create an account for FIRST TeamUp.

 

Register your Jr.FLL Event
Look up existing Jr.FLL events in the Finger Lakes region