FLL – Regional Challenge Tournament and Explore Festival also this year at the Faculty of Science of P. J. Šafarik University in Košice.
FIRST LEGO League FLL is a global, robotics-oriented program. It introduces science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) to children and youth ages 4-16 through fun and exciting hands-on learning. Each year, it offers participants a new and interesting challenge focused on a specific socially relevant topic. Past seasons have focused on topics such as energy, transportation of goods, seniors, effective learning, urban planning, water management, and space exploration. This year’s theme, titled MASTERPIECESM, is STEM in the Arts.
On Februar 14, 2024 from 9.00 a.m., under the auspices of the Dean of the Faculty Associate Professor Roman Soták, the regional FLL – Challenge tournament and Explore festival will take place, which has been co-organised by the Faculty of Science of P. J. Šafarik University in Košice for several years. About 100 children will participate in the tournament. In the Challenge category 10 teams and in the Explore category 5 teams. Students and staff of the Institute of Computer Science under the leadership of Dr. Rastislav Krivos Bellus are actively involved in the organizational preparation of the regional round in Košice.
FLL participants are introduced to the fundamentals of STEM at an early age and apply their skills in exciting competition, while building habits of learning, confidence and teamwork..
The FLL Challenge is one of three categories and is a technology competition for students aged 9 to 16. FIRST LEGO League challenges them to think like scientists and engineers. During each season, teams work on an innovative project that requires them to research and solve a real-world problem. In addition, students learn to construct and program their own robot, which they then use to perform various missions in a robot competition.
FLL Explore is another category in which teams of children aged 6 to 10 focus on the fundamentals of engineering, exploring real-world problems, learning to construct and program, creating unique models made from LEGO bricks and powered by special LEGO building blocks.
What it looked like at FIRST LEGO League in previous years:
