Innovate, Create, and Share

Engage your students in a range of relevant learning opportunities that will immerse them in research, problem-solving, coding, and engineering with FIRST^® LEGO^® League Challenge Class Pack.

FIRST^® Class Pack helps facilitators guide their students through 12 sessions as they develop, design, build, and code a LEGO^® robot that navigates missions of a robot game and develop an innovation project solution to a real-world problem.

Resources available to facilitators include scope and sequence options, which feature variations to customize activities to extend learning beyond the 12 sessions using FIRST and LEGO Education supporting materials.

To ensure students are acquiring knowledge and developing skills that are age- and grade-level appropriate, the FIRST LEGO League Challenge Learning Progression can also be used to validate or assess students' knowledge and skills. 

Bring FIRST LEGO League Challenge to your students

Class Pack includes printed materials and access to digital materials through the FIRST^® Thinkscape Portal from August 2021 to September 2022
See the program overview here.  

In this year’s FIRST LEGO League Challenge season, CARGO CONNECT^SM, your students will get creative and use their critical thinking and imaginations to explore how cargo is transported, sorted, and delivered to its destinations. 

Class Pack Includes:

• Class Pack Guide:  This digital guide provides guidance, management tips, and best practices for how to implement FIRST LEGO League Challenge in the classroom and instructions on how to run a tournament in your classroom or school. 
  
• Team Meeting Guide:  This comprehensive guide is printed and available digitally and provides facilitators with guidance and lesson plans on how to run 12 sessions and end with a culminating celebration. It includes student outcomes, tips, cleanup pointers, and checkpoints to monitor the team's progress. >View a sample  
• Engineering Notebooks:  These student workbooks are used to record ideas, notes, and sketches - printed versions of the books are included with Class Pack and are available digitally through the FIRST Thinkscape Portal. Each workbook provides a guided 12-session experience, including an introduction activity, session tasks, and concluding with the team sharing what they learned and accomplished. Additional Engineering Notebooks can be purchased in bundles of 10, up to three (3) bundles per Class Pack. For the best experience, if more than three (3) bundles are needed, please order an additional FIRST LEGO League Challenge Class Pack.
  >View a sample  
• Robot Game Rulebooks:  These printed and digital guides provide facilitators and students with everything they need for the CARGO CONNECT^SM robot game. Each guide contains field set-up instructions, descriptions of each mission, and the rules student teams must follow during the preparation, action, and scoring. 
• Session Slides:  A session-by-session series of slides that contain real-world connections such as videos, images, and helpful questions to guide students through each session. >View a sample
• CARGO CONNECT^SM Challenge Sets:  Themed field mats and exclusive sets of LEGO^® elements to build season-specific mission models.

Essential Program Elements

(not included with Class Pack)

LEGO Education SPIKE^TM Prime + Expansion Set

Can be purchased through FIRST 

Reusable year-to-year, SPIKE Prime combines over 1,100 colorful LEGO building elements, easy-to-use hardware, and an intuitive drag-and-drop coding language based on Scratch. View technical specs and system requirements.

We recommend no more than four (4) students per robot kit to provide all students an opportunity to practice coding and building during your sessions.

If you already have LEGO^® MINDSTORMS^® Education EV3 sets, they are compatible with FIRST LEGO League Challenge Class Pack and can be used to participate.

For the best possible student experience, we recommend at least two electronic devices (computer/tablet) per four students. 

Individual Team Registration Grant

With each Challenge Class Pack purchase, you are eligible to receive one individual rookie (first-year) team registration grant for a discounted price. Individual teams participate in season events run by local Program Delivery Partners and have the potential for progression to regional or national championships. Access Team Grant application.

• $115 of the $225 Team registration

Standards Alignments