For anybody who has not yet had the opportunity to see FLL live, we gathered a lot of information here.

:: What is FLL?
:: How does an FLL tournament work?
:: FLL Schedule
:: Video about FLL (german TV)

What is FLL?

FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL) is a program that supports children and youngsters in order to introduce them to science and technology in a sporty atmosphere. The objective is to:

:: make children and youngsters enthusiastic about science and technology
:: to equip the participants with the idea of team spirit
:: to encourage children and youngsters to solve complex tasks in a creative way

The basis of FLL is a robotics tournament in a cheerful atmosphere, where kids and youngsters need to solve a tricky "mission" with the help of a robot. The kids are researching a given topic within a team, they are planning programming and testing an autonomous robot to solve the mission.

The FLL Teams take the opportunity to experience all steps of a real product development process: solving a problem under time pressure with insufficient resources and unknown competitors. FLL is a small microcosmos of real business life in all its respects.

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How does an FLL tournament work?

The FLL Teams are working on the missions of the FLL Robot-Game and the presentation of the FLL Research Project.

The topic of the challenge changes every year and refers to current developments and situations in the world. The challenge documents and neccessary information according the tournament are announced online exclusively.

When preparing for the FLL Regional Tournament each FLL Team is guided by its FLL Coach. During the preparational period the team constructs and programs as well as it is learning how to find and analyse information and prepare a presentation of their research results, which will be presented to the FLL Jury on the tournament day. There are no limits for presenting to keep up the fun factor: poems, songs, plays - whatever fantasy can imagine!

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FLL Schedule 2012/13

March 1st, 2012		Official registration starts
End of August 2012		Shipping of FLL Challenge Sets
Early September, 2012		FLL Missions are published - official kickoff (deadline for age limit: 10 to 16 years)
End of September, 2012		Closing of registration
November, 2012		FLL Regional Tournaments
December, 2012		FLL Semi Final Tournaments
January 2013		FLL Final and closing of current FLL season

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Video about FLL in german

The report of the german TV broadcast "ZDF heute Journal" shows the complete character of the tournament and the enthusiasm of all people involved (teams, coaches, judges and audience) on the tournament day. The video was filmed at FLL Finale Central Europe on Dec 2nd, 2006 in Magdeburg/Barleben (D).

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