All season, youth involved in FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL) have worked together to create, code, and compete to advance to the final FLL Championship, which took place earlier this month at Augustana University’s campus in Sioux Falls, SD. Teams traveled across South Dakota, North Sioux City to Rapid City, and many cities and small towns in between, to compete and showcase their complex robots. Teams were judged based on their innovation project, presentation skills, robot design, and core values. Our 2022-23 Season Challenge was a SUPERPOWERED℠ theme and had teams creating an innovation project that included a real-world solution utilizing renewable energy. This encouraged teams to explore where energy comes from and how it’s stored, distributed, and can be utilized for a better energy-efficient future!

First Lego League Challenge Champions

Our two divisions inspire youth to experiment and grow their critical thinking, coding, and design skills through hands-on STEM learning and robotics.
First Lego League Championship team

kids working together

Below are this year’s FIRST® LEGO® League Championship results:

  • Core Values Finalist is Team 59753 H-BC Patriots Mighty Ducks!
  • Core Values Winner is Team 36246 Almighty Fiery Alpaca
  • Innovation Project Finalist is 56877 Slay Solar Sisters
  • Innovation Project Winner is Team 14952 West Lyon Wildbots
  • Robot Design Finalist is Team 56729 Central Lyon-ROARbotics
  • Robot Design Winner is Team 35843 Spartanbots
  • Already announced and received are the Robot Performance Awards
  • Robot Performance Finalist is team 56877 Slay Solar Sisters
  • Robot Performance Winner is team 53740 Cyber Lyons
  • The Outstanding Volunteer Award goes to Stephanie Bent
  • The Coach/Mentor Award goes to CeCe Soucy of the Battery Bots and the Lego Legends.
  • Our Tournament Champion Finalist is team 53740 Cyber Lyons
  • And the Tournament Champion Winner is team 50861 Burning Breakfast Burritos!

Congratulations to all our 2022-2023 teams, and thank you for your participation and hard work! Click on these links if you are interested in learning more about FIRST® LEGO® League or the Robotics Camps that we offer at EmBe!

Special thank you to our FIRST® LEGO® League 2022-23 sponsors and friends at POET, DJ Jer, and Omnitech.