Challenge

Challenge

Summary

Friendly competition is at the heart of Challenge, as teams of students engage in research, problem-solving, coding, and engineering - building and programming a LEGO^® robot that navigates the missions of a robot game. This division is targeted towards students in Fourth through Eighth Grade. This division was previously known as FIRST^® LEGO^® League.

Participation

There are two ways to participate in FIRST LEGO League Challenge: Traditional Teams and Class Pack.

A FIRST LEGO League Challenge Traditional Team requires two Coach/Mentors aged 18 or older. These two coaches must be registered with the team in the FIRST^® Dashboard, and each Coach/Mentor may be associated with any number of FIRST teams. Optionally, the team may also have a Team Administrator. Each team must have at least two team members. Members must be either between the ages of nine and 14 or in grades 4th through 8th; it is not required that a student meet both the age and grade requirement - only one is required. The ages and grades are effective at the time the student is added to the team in the FIRST Dashboard. No team may include more than 10 total members - this includes any members who act on a part-time basis, so the limit is 10 unique people rather than "10 simultaneous members." Students may not participate on more than one FIRST LEGO League Challenge Traditional Team. Traditional teams are eligible to participate in official FIRST LEGO League Challenge competitions in the Alabama region.

Class Pack is a curricular approach to FIRST LEGO League Challenge, whereby a school, organization, or other group may purchase materials to serve content to students in groups of up to 24 per unit. Class Pack groups are not eligible for FIRST LEGO League Challenge competitions in the Alabama region. Class Pack may be used in conjunction with Traditional Teams, though. For example, a school may wish to purchase two Class Packs to serve 48 students on eight teams and one or more Traditional Team registrations. The school could then have an internal competition to determine which team or teams would compete in the Alabama region. Each Class Pack purchase grants eligibility for a discounted Traditional Team rookie team registration.

Fees

Traditional Team

• $250 Team Registration (annually)
• $95 Challenge Set (annually)
• $533.90 LEGO SPIKE^™ Prime (reusable)
• $150 (estimated) Event Registration (annual)
• $50 Pack of 10 Engineering Notebooks (optional, annual)
• Miscellaneous Fees (team shirts, extra LEGO pieces, Innovation Project materials, etc.)

Class Pack

• $825 for curricular materials for 24 students (annually)
• $533.90 (each) for the LEGO SPIKE Prime Robot set, one per four students recommended (reusable)
• $600 Professional Development (recommended)