FIRST^® Class Pack

Meeting students where they are with flexible curricular options designed to develop holistic skills, innovative thinking, and create pathways for the future. 

FIRST^®  is unique among the robotics and technology education landscape, leading the development of highly sought-after skills and preparing students to change the world today, and tomorrow.

For more than 30 years, we’ve changed the lives of millions of participants around the world through thrilling project-based, team-driven robotics challenges. Designed using evidence-based practices for STEM and 21^st century learning, our Class Pack implementation options provide educators with flexible, high-quality STEM learning experiences for their PreK-12 students in the classroom or structured after-school programs.

Class Pack events are designed to be run by the school or organization. If you are interested in events run by our local program delivery partners and have the potential for progression to regional or national championships, check out our FIRST individual team pathway.   

Harness young minds’ natural curiosity and build habits of learning, confidence, and teamwork skills. This guided experience provides facilitators with the tools and resources to lead their learners as they explore STEM through play using the LEGO^® Education STEAM Park.

In Explore, teams of students ages 6-10 focus on the fundamentals of engineering as they explore real-world problems, learn to design, and code and create unique solutions made with LEGO^® bricks and powered by LEGO^® Education SPIKE^TM Essential.

Engage your students in a range of relevant learning opportunities that will immerse them in research, problem-solving, coding, and engineering. Students will develop an innovative solution to a real-world problem, and design, build, and code a LEGO^® robot to solve themed challenge missions.

A robust robotics engineering curriculum that connects STEM topics to the real-world. In this year- long course students will be immersed in completing a project using computational thinking and the engineering design process. The interactive curriculum has everything you need to faciliate students through an exciting robotics course – allowing them to build teamwork, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.