FIRST LEGO League for Teams

FIRST® LEGO® League for Teams

The 2026-2027 challenge theme is BIOGLOW, this year we will be navigating an exciting journey through the fascinating ecosystems of our world! Biodiversity keeps our planet healthy. In the rainforest, from the tiniest insects to towering trees, there are countless plants and animal species depending on one another to survive. Teams will explore how nature, technology, and innovation are connected, while developing creative solutions to LEGO mission challenges.

FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL) tournaments in Bristol, Somerset and Wiltshire are hosted by the Graphic Science team. We’ll be there to welcome your team on the day, and are here if you have any queries in the run-up to your tournament. Below is some information and top tips to help you get started. Please see The IET website for student workbooks and the FIRST for Robot Game updates and guidance.

Student Teams: Info Sheets & Top Tips

GETTING STARTED WITH FLL: An introduction to the Robot Game, Robot Design, Core Values & Innovation Projects

STRATEGIES AND TIPS:
For robot design, your gameplay plan and creating your Innovation Project

PREPARING FOR YOUR TOURNAMENT:
What to expect, what to bring and who you’ll meet.

Information for Teachers & Team Coaches

GETTING STARTED WITH FLL: An introduction to FLL, participation options and building a team

ATTENDING THE TOURNAMENT:
Admin awareness, what to bring and timings for the day

IMPACT OF FLL:
Information that may be
helpful for school senior leadership buy-in

Getting started: open the box!

Each team will receive the season’s challenge mat and LEGO® mission models after they register for a tournament. The team will need to assemble the mission models according to the build instructions (to ensure they work correctly), this can take quite a long time and you might need to ask for some extra pairs of hands. We’d recommend opening this box asap, you won’t know what the robot needs to do until the missions are built and working correctly.

Using the LEGO SPIKE Prime Kit

For the FLL Founders Edition tournament teams will need either a LEGO SPIKE Prime Kit or the older Mindstorm EV3 kits. We love innovation, but teams don’t have to reinvent the wheel. As a starting point, you could use a simple driving base and adapt it to suit your strategy. Every robot design will be different as every team strategy is different. Get used to how it works, then make some alterations, how could it be better? Could you build an attachment?

Your Innovation Project

For the 2026-2027 BIOGLOW season, teams are being set the challenge to identify a problem that puts biodiversity at risk and design an innovative solution that can help. Check out your challenge mat and mission models for inspiration, and the engineering notebook has more information to help you get started. Your Innovation Project can be in any format and we’ve seen it all – from posters to full costumed plays. We’d encourage teams to get creative!