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FIRST® LEGO® League Challenge UK

Lead a hands-on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) programme in your school or community for 9-16 year-olds.

1

Register for your Class Pack with the IET

As you work through your 30 Day Challenge on ChangeX, you can go ahead and register officially with the IET.

Your Class Pack provides enough equipment for 30 children containing:

  • 2 x Challenge Sets – season themed field mats and exclusive sets of LEGO® elements to build season-specific mission models.
  • 1 x Class Pack Guide - guidance, management tips, and best practices for how to implement the programme and instructions on how to run your own tournament.
  • 2 x Team Meeting Guides - guidance and lesson plans on how to run 12 sessions and end with a celebration event. It includes learning outcomes, tips, clean-up pointers, and checkpoints to monitor the teams’ progress.
  • 10 x Engineering Notebooks – team workbooks to record ideas, notes, and sketches. Each workbook provides a guided 12-session experience, including an introduction activity, session tasks, and concluding with the teams sharing what they learned and accomplished.
  • 5 x Robot Game Rulebooks - everything needed for the robot game. Contains field set-up instructions, mission descriptions, and the rules teams must follow.
  • 30 x LEGO® medals and lanyards
  • 1 x Build your own Small LEGO® Trophy
2

Purchase 5 x LEGO® Education SPIKE Prime sets

You will also need access to compatible devices to download and run the SPIKE App programming software.

 

3

Visit the IET resources pages

Explore the full set of IET teacher resources here

4

Receive kit and read through Team Meeting Guide

Once you receive your Class Pack and SPIKE Primes as well as all the information in your welcome email, you’ll be almost ready to go. Have a read through your Team Meeting Guide in your pack and plan your first session by having a look through all the kit and resources online!

5

Run your first session!

Now you're ready to go with your very first session. Keep working through all of the resources on the IET website to make sure you have all you need.


About FIRST® LEGO® League Challenge UK

""There are no words that can express my appreciation for what this programme has done for the children involved. It is for me without doubt of huge value to UK education. I often tell the students that there are days that stay with you as long as you live. *FIRST®* LEGO® League keeps supplying our team with those, so thank you for that.""


Neil Corrigan, Team Coach and Teacher
Neil Corrigan, Team Coach and Teacher

Great for

  • School teachers or someone who works with children
  • Someone looking for ways to engage kids in STEM
  • Someone who is working with 9-16 year olds

Time

We recommend a 2-hour session each week for 12 weeks

Resource checklist

  • Registered with IET
  • Watched the welcome video
  • Received your Class Pack and robots