Our Programs

FIRST® is the world’s leading youth robotics community, delivering youth robotics competitions that inspire innovation, build confidence, and prepare young people for life. Discover available programs what drives our global movement. Our K-12 programs are designed to engage and excite students at every level. FIRST programs offer flexible team-based experiences that promote collaboration, problem-solving, and innovation through robotics and engineering activities for students. Discover what each program has to offer based on grade level.

Thunderpups Grades K-3

FIRST LEGO League Explore is a non-competitive robotics program designed for lower elementary students. The program is a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) program that uses LEGO elements to introduce real-world scientific problems.

Teams of up to four children work together to explore a scientific problem such as energy, recycling, or transportation, through critical thinking and imagination. They also learn programming with a robotics set and create a motorized LEGO model to illustrate their discoveries.

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Lightning Wolves Grades 4-5

Friendly competition is at the heart of FIRST LEGO League Challenge, as teams of students in upper elementary engage in research, problem-solving, coding and engineering - building and programming an autonomous LEGO robot that navigates the missions of a robot game.

As part of Challenge, teams also participate in a research project to identify and solve a real-world problem of their choosing centering around the annual theme.

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Red Thunder FRC 7166 Grades 9-12

Combining the excitement of sports with the rigors of STEAM, FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) teams comprised of students aged 14-18 use technology to build and program industrial-sized robots to play an action-packed, alliance based game on a themed game field.

Guided by adult professionals and supported by sponsors, students learn engineering and problem-solving skills they can apply to real-world challenges today in the future.

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