Explore

Explore

Summary

In Explore, teams of students 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 Essential. This division is targeted towards students in Second through Fourth Grade. This division was previously known as FIRST^® LEGO^® League Jr.

Participation

There are two ways to participate in FIRST^® LEGO^® League Explore: Traditional Teams and Class Pack.

A FIRST LEGO League Explore Traditional Team requires two Coach/Mentors aged 18 or older. These two coaches must be registered with the team in the FIRST^® Dashboard, and each Coach/Mentor may be associated with any number of FIRST teams. Optionally, the team may also have a Team Administrator. Each team must have at least two team members. Members must be either between the ages of six and 10 or in grades 2nd through 4th; it is not required that a student meet both the age and grade requirement - only one is required. The ages and grades are effective at the time the student is added to the team in the FIRST Dashboard. No team may include more than six total members - this includes any members who act on a part-time basis, so the limit is six unique people rather than "six simultaneous members." Students may not participate on more than one FIRST LEGO League Explore Traditional Team. The ages are effective at the time the student joins the team. Traditional teams are eligible to participate in official FIRST LEGO League Explore Festival events in the Alabama region. Unlike Challenge, Explore is non-competitive, and teams are celebrated for their hard work and growth at Festival events.

Class Pack is a curricular approach to FIRST LEGO League Explore, whereby a school, organization, or other group may purchase materials to serve content to students in groups of up to 24 per unit. Class Pack groups are not eligible for FIRST LEGO League Explore Festival events in the Alabama region. Class Pack may be used in conjunction with Traditional Teams, though. For example, a school may wish to purchase two Class Packs to serve 48 students on 14 teams and one or more Traditional Team registrations. The school could then have an internal Festival to determine which team or teams would participate in the Alabama region Festivals. Each Class Pack purchase grants eligibility for a discounted Traditional Team rookie team registration.

Fees

Traditional Team

• $125 Team Registration and Explore Set (annually)
• $319.95 LEGO Education SPIKE^™ Essential (reusable)
• $40 Pack of 10 Engineering Notebooks (optional, annual)
• $25 (estimated) Event Registration (annual)
• Miscellaneous Fees (team shirts, extra LEGO pieces, presentation materials, etc.)

Class Pack

• $695 for curricular materials for 24 students (annually)
• $319.95 LEGO Education SPIKE Essential (reusable), one per four students recommended (reusable)
• $600 Professional Development (recommended)