Each year FIRST Lego League releases a real-life scientific challenge for teams around the world to tackle.  Teams work and collaborate to learn, discover, and change the world.  FIRST Lego League challenges include 3 basic parts including: the robot game, the project, and core values.  Through team work and collaboration we focus to instill a love for science, technology, engineering and mathematic concepts as well as inspire a fun-loving safe environment to learn and take risks.

Each season students work to program an autonomous robot to complete set challenges on a theme based playing field.  This year we are focusing on HYDRODYNAMICS, where we will explore the positives and negatives to the human water cycle.  Students are encouraged to learn as much as they can about the human water cycle and identify potential problems with our real-life system, setting out to improve and make a positive impact on our world!

View the video below to learn a little more about this years challenge.

On your mark, get set, flow! Drink in the 2017/2018 HYDRO DYNAMICS^SMseason and learn all about water – how we find, transport, use, or dispose of it. In the 2017/2018 FIRST^® LEGO^® League Challenge, students age 9 to 16* from 80 countries will make a splash with HYDRO DYNAMICS. What might become possible when we understand what happens to our water?

FIRST LEGO League challenges kids to think like scientists and engineers. During the HYDRO DYNAMICS^SMseason, teams will choose and solve a real-world problem in the Project. They will also build, test, and program an autonomous robot using LEGO^® MINDSTORMS^® technology to solve a set of missions in the Robot Game. Throughout their experience, teams will operate under the FIRST LEGO League signature set of Core Values, celebrating discovery, teamwork, and Gracious Professionalism^®.

~ Challenge description courtesy of www.firstlegoleague.org