FIRST LEGO League is a competition for children and youth aged between 9 and 16. The organizers of this year’s competition in Serbia are SerbianTech, Fondacija 1%, and Superglavce.
This global program introduces children to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through hands-on learning using didactic materials and LEGO Education kits. Preparations for the competition encourage children’s creativity, team spirit, cooperation – and build independence for future actions and projects. While socializing and having fun, they are gaining experience primarily within science and technology. In addition, they develop critical thinking, coding skills, and design skills through practical STEM learning and robotics. The program brings together students from primary and secondary schools who are interested in science. Teams are formed in schools and participate in making an innovative project, programming robots, and presenting results. Participants gain real-world problem-solving experience through a guided global robotics program, helping today’s students and teachers build a better future together.
FIRST LEGO League 2020/2021
This year, eight teams from Serbia and two teams from Bosnia and Herzegovina will participate in the competition in Serbia. See in the table from which city and organization the teams come.
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Name of school/organization |
Team name |
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LegoBusters |
Kragujevac, Serbia |
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ElektRobot |
Prijepolje, Serbia |
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PoliBoti |
Belgrade, Serbia |
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ZaLEGO |
Zaječar, Serbia |
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PoGimPro |
Požarevac, Serbia |
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Timekeepers |
Belgrade, Serbia |
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Game Changers |
Belgrade, Serbia |
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Noobovi |
Belgrade, Serbia |
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LEGOMasters |
Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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LegoETŠ |
Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
The FIRST LEGO League competition will hold on May 23 at the First Kragujevac Gymnasium. The winning teams will go from the competition in Serbia to Slovenia for the regional competition – while the teams that manage to place further will go to the USA for the world competition.
Rules and evaluation
Each team can have 3 – 10 participants led by two mentors – two adults. To participate, you need a robot set (LEGO Education SPIKE ™ Prime and MINDSTORMS® EV3), a current FLL set (polygon, Lego blocks with obstacles set, assembly instructions, a guide to the current challenge, materials, and other documentation), and a competition table.
All equipment must be LEGO. Non-electrical parts are allowed from any set. Electric ones have to be from the listed Robot sets (LEGO Education SPIKE ™ Prime and MINDSTORMS® EV3, but NXT and RCX equivalents are also allowed). Allowed robot equipment is a maximum of one controller, a maximal four motors, an unlimited number of sensors (pressure sensor, color sensor, gyroscope, remote sensor, or ultrasonic sensor), LEGO wires, controller battery, or six AA batteries and one SD card.
The competition evaluates:
– Core values - which are the basis of the program, and they are the ones that distinguish FIRST LEGO League from other programs of that type.
– Robot game – in which children creatively learn programming and acquire technical skills, develop a strategy for designing, and programming their robot.
– Robot design – where children present their strategy to the referees. How the robot is programmed and how will they complete the assigned missions.
– Innovative project – is the task to present their project to the referees in the best way. It’s how they acquire communication, presentation, and public speaking skills. This year’s theme is RePlay and aims at encouraging people to engage in physical activities.
This video shows which all robot game missions exist. It takes the robot to complete as many missions as possible within two and a half minutes.
Special thanks to the Tesla brand for recognizing the importance of this program and supporting the competition.
We wish all the teams good luck in the competition. We believe that some of them will achieve notable results at the world competition in the USA.
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