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The following links are the instructions for youth registration. All participants are required to register through the FIRST dashboard. - Lead coaches only invite youth members that are 18 years old or older and can legally sign their consent form. - For youth members that are 17 years old and under, the lead coaches must send the Express Enrollment invitation/QR code directly to the parents/guardians to complete. There are 3 Links. - Youth registration instructions as a coach - Youth registration instructions for parents - Main FIRST page for youth registration.

All coaches are required to complete the Youth Protection Program background screening. In Canada, this is done by Sterling Background checks. Attached here is a PDF provided by FIRST with information about the background check process.

Below are important dates to look out for. September September 10th - Coaches Meeting #1 3:30pm - Google Meet October October 23rd - Team Swag Order Deadline October 31st - Registration Deadline November November 12th - Coaches Meeting #2 November 13th - Youth Registration Deadline & Dietary Restrictions Due December 4th (evening) - December 5th Provincial Championship

This is a helpful guide created by FIRST on how to prepare for a FIRST Lego League competition. It divides the work of preparing for the competition into 12 sessions. If this is your first time being a coach for FIRST Lego League, we highly recommend checking out this guide.

This document outlines all the rules of the robot game. Please review this docuemnt as a team before attending the provincial championship.

The Engineering Notebook accompanies the Team Meeting Guide. This is a notebook for the students to fill out as they prepare for the provincial championships.

This video goes over the BIOGLOW missions and robot game rules.

These are the rubrics that our judges use in the judging session. Use these as reference when creating your innovation project and robot design presentation.

At the provincial championship competition, your team will do a judging session where your team will present their Innovation Project and Robot Design presentations. This one page PDF outlines the overview of that session.

There are many "Starter Builds" on the internet for teams to use to get of the ground in FIRST LEGO League. This website has many build ideas from previous FIRST LEGO League teams. These won't provide you with the "winning" robot, but is a great place to start!

Learn about the touch/force sensor included in your team's SPIKE Prime kit.

Learn about the distance sensor included in your team's SPIKE Prime kit.

Learn about the color sensor in your team's SPIKE Prime Kit and how to use it.

A video by Creator Academy Australia about the various aspects of the competition. There are tips and tricks for how to find success in FIRST Lego League.

A small online course introducing the LEGO Spike kits.

A guided unit in the LEGO Spike app showing how to make a competition ready robot. There are multiple chapters in this unit and each chapter has a lesson plan for you to use: 1: Driving Around Controlling movements with the gyro sensor. 2: Playing With Objects Controlling movements using the distance sensor 3: Reacting to Lines Controlling movements using the color sensor 4: The Guided Mission An example solution for one of the robot game missions 5: Assembling an Advanced Driving Base Starter bot build guide. 6: My Code, Our Program Guide for writing easy to understand code 7: Time for an Upgrade Tutorial on making tools for your robot. 8: Mission Ready Final Chapter to help you get started preparing for the competition.

A short video showing off some styles of FIRST Lego League robot designs

Here is a wireframe guide to the FIRST Lego League mat provided by FIRST. You can use this to plan your programs for the 2.5 minute robot game. Can you determine how far your robot moves in one rotation of the driving wheels? With that knowledge you can use this wireframe guide to determine how many rotations you need to reach a mission!

Here is a collection of Innovation Project presentation videos from around the world that we found online. Use these as inspiration for your innovation projects. You'll notice that every team has their own way of presenting their project. How you chose to present your project is up to your team and their creativity. List of Videos: First LEGO League Best Presentation - West Linton Wasps Team: West Linton Wasps Season: 2015-2016 - Trash Trek First Lego League Innovation Project Presentation Submerged Season Team: LOAD Robotics Season: 2023-2024 - Submerged FLL Innovation Project Presentation Example Team: Robotic Rebels Season: 2018-2019 - Into Orbit Our final presentation for our Innovation Project before The World Championship Team: Artificial Intelligence Season 2021-2022 Cargo Connect

This is a presentation/guide from a global FIRST Lego League team, The Lego Legions. This guide is all about how to prepare your innovation project. In these slides, they talk about how you should design your presentation around the judging session rubric, prioritize reaching out to experts, and more. This is a great resource for learning how to structure your innovation project presentation. This presentation came from the site flltutorials.com

A video by Common Sense Media going over how to effectively use google for searching the internet. The video goes over search operators for advanced searching.

Three part video series from FIRST Lego League about how to prepare and present your innovation project Part 1: What is the Project (4 minutes) Part 2: How to Have a Successful Project Experience (5 minutes) Part 3: Present Your Project ( 4 minutes)

Here is a collection of Robot Design presentation videos from around the world that we found online. Use these as inspiration for your presentation. Note that some of the videos are quiet so we recommend watching with captions turned on. Knots and Bots - Robot Design Presentation Team: Knots & Bots Season: 2023-2024 Masterpiece FLL SuperPowered Judging Session Presentation Team: Lazer Robotics Season: 2022-2023 Superpowered Agileblast FLL 2024 Robot Design Presentation Team: Agileblast Season: 2024-2025 Submerged

This article is a recommended reading from FIRST LEGO League.

Here are two videos by Green Ivy Schools about presentation skills for kids. It is split into two parts: Part 1 (2 minutes) Part 2 (2 minutes)