About FIRST LEGO League
The FIRST LEGO League (FLL), considered the "little league" of the FIRST Robotics Competition, is the result of a partnership between FIRST and the LEGO Group. FLL extends the FIRST concept of inspiring and celebrating science and technology to children aged 9 through 14, using real-world context and hands-on experimentation.
With the help of technology from the LEGO MINDSTORMS Robotics Invention SystemTM or the next-generation LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT system, young participants build a robot and compete in a friendly, FIRST-style robotics event specially designed for their age group. Using LEGO bricks and other elements such as sensors, motors, and gears, teams gain hands-on experience in engineering and computer programming principles as they construct and program their unique robot inventions. At the end of the eight-week design and build period, the teams compete in tournaments against other teams who faced the identical time and materials limitations. In addition, teams present a Project connected with the challenge's annual theme, which encourages teams to research issues facing the world.
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