Year 8

First Lego League

Why Choose This Course?

Are you ready to innovate, collaborate, and build something epic? In this exciting elective, you’ll dive into the world of real-world problem solving using robotics, coding, teamwork, and cutting-edge STEM challenges.

Inspired by the internationally recognised First Lego League (FLL), this course gives you the chance to think like scientists and engineers. You’ll explore how to design, build, and program autonomous LEGO robots to tackle themed missions — all leading up to an exhilarating inter-school competition where your team’s innovation and creativity will be tested against the best.

What You’ll Learn

This course is hands-on, team-based, and packed with exploration and creativity. You will:

  • Investigate science and engineering concepts that apply to real-world problems (linked to Science as a Human Endeavour and Science Inquiry Skills from the WA Curriculum).
  • Explore energy, motion, forces, and simple machines through robot construction and movement.
  • Develop your coding skills using drag-and-drop block programming and logic-based problem solving.
  • Collaborate in teams, test hypotheses, analyse performance data, and present solutions in line with Scientific Inquiry
  • Learn about sustainability, global citizenship and ethical innovation as you work through themed FLL research projects.
Real World Relevance

The skills developed in this course mirror those used in STEM careers across engineering, robotics, IT, sustainability, and even medical technology. You’ll be building teamwork, creativity, critical thinking, and communication — key abilities for the future workforce.

You’ll also gain exposure to project management, innovation, and design thinking, preparing you for upper school electives in Digital Technologies, Engineering, and Science.

End of Year Highlight

Get ready to show what you’ve got at the First Lego League Challenge — a high-energy inter-school robotics competition where strategy, teamwork, and science combine. Awards, pride, and serious bragging rights are on the line.

Contact Information

Ms Kerry Randall
Head of Science
Kerry.Randall@cewa.edu.au