Experiencing STEM through First Lego League

Abstract

In 2013, I became part of an amazing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) program, FIRST Lego League (FLL). FLL is a competition focused around the motto “discover the excitement of STEM”. The competition consists of three main aspects: robot game, project, and core values. In the robot game, teams build and program an autonomous robot to complete various missions. For the project, you create a shareable solution to a world problem. The core values consist of ten tenets that the FLL community believes in and expects teams to exhibit throughout the competition season. The robot game and project have a yearly theme. As teams move through the competition, they are judged in all of these aspects, with a chance to move to the next level.