Last week, thousands of students, coaches, volunteers, sponsors, and STEM supporters came together in Houston, TX, USA to celebrate the FIRST® Championship presented by BAE Systems. The week was filled with friendly competition, exciting innovation, and lots of Gracious Professionalism® as we commemorated the conclusion of the 2022-2023 season, FIRST® ENERGIZESM, powered by Qualcomm.
The FIRST® LEGO® League World Festival at the FIRST Championship hosted 108 FIRST® LEGO® League Challenge teams and 55 FIRST® LEGO® League Explore teams from around the world to reimagine the energy of future together with their SUPERPOWEREDSM robots, Innovation Projects, and Core Values!
Here is the complete FIRST LEGO League Challenge World Festival Awards List:
Champion’s Award Winner:
FSINGENIUM Team, Sarriguren, Spain
Champion’s Award Finalists:
LITBOT100, Kaunas, Lithuania
Legotronic Beavers, Torres de Elorz, Spain
RoboRazors, Amman, Jordan
Volunteer of the Year:
Teresa Lanum, MS USA
Core Values Award Winner:
Assembly Required, Fort Myers, FL USA
Core Values Award Finalists:
Sharon Robo Knights, Suwanee, Georgia
Hawks Mechanics, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Robo-Sapiens, Missoula, MT USA
Innovation Project Award Winner:
SycaGo, Holon, Israel
Innovation Project Award Finalists:
The Pythoneers, Dallas, TX USA
Lego Legion, Cincinnati, OH USA
The Tech Wrecks, Cedar Park, TX USA
Robot Design Award Winner:
Silent-X Assassins, Penang, Malaysia
Robot Design Award Finalists:
Team 4.0.4, Falun, Sweden
Robotics For Life (RFL), Moulay Yacoub, Morocco
Play 4 Energy, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Robot Performance Award Winner:
FSINGENIUM Team, Sarriguren, Spain
Robot Performance Award Finalists:
Legotronic Beavers, Torres de Elorz, Spain
Silent-X Assassins, Penang, Malaysia
FREES, Gyeonggi, South Korea
Engineering Excellence Award Winners:
The Gummy Bears, Westford, MA USA
SESI CLP, Campo Limpo Paulista, Brazil
Tiger Techs (Black), Sharon, PA USA
Rising All-Star Award Winners:
Programming Pickles, Toquerville, UT USA
Tongue River Middle School Deceptacons, Ranchester, WY USA
The Building Beasts, Jerome, ID USA
Breakthrough Award Winners:
6tron, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay
Team Hedemolle, Bjerringbro, Denmark
Enerdronics, Clarksville, MD USA
Motivate Award Winners:
Izidumbu, Budapest, Hungary
Haffouz Heroes, Kairouan, Tunisia
Dragon Racers, Huntington, NY USA
Peer Award Winner:
Legotronic Beavers, Torres de Elorz, Spain
Coach/Mentor Award Winner:
Lauren Gaskill, Team Sunny Delights, Mishawaka IN USA
Alberto Gomes da Silva, Team SESI CLP, Campo Limpo Paulista, Brazil
Ofir Glazer, Team SycaGo, Holon, Israel
Here is the complete FIRST LEGO League Explore World Festival Awards List:
Volunteers of the Year:
Nathan Coulombe, IN USA
Nicole Coulombe, IN USA
Challenge Solution Award
Guzmanitos 6, Phoenix, AZ USA
Rockin Robos, Rocklin, CA USA
Jr Falcons, Air Force Academy, CO USA
Superpower Dino Bites, Okeechobee, FL USA
Mellon Kids, Peiraias, Greece
Kipapa Cougar Cubs 1, Mililani, HI USA
The Littlest Circuit Breakers, Salem, IN USA
LEGO Fire Dragon, Sagamihara-shi, Japan
Lego Leaders, Ypsilanti, MI USA
Kråkerøy Kreativ Junior, Kråkerøy, Norway
Thunder Energy, Wonju-si, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea
RoboKids, Bacau, Romania
Cuellar LEGO Elites, Dallas, TX USA
Coding Award
Trouble Makers, Fremont, CA USA
Pythons, Clarksburg, MD USA
Supernova, Acton, MA USA
Mapaches ALR, Hermosillo, Mexico
Lego Savages, Tecumseh, OK USA
The Brick Titans, Muntinlupa City, Philippines
Saudi Maker – JR, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
The Creative Engineers, Dubai, UAE
Core Values Award
Pythagoras Power Builders, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Chicken Hunters, Encinitas, CA USA
Team Soaring, Beijing, China
Chicken Energy, Groton, CT USA
The Cookie Crunchers, Lake Villa, IL USA
Adeptus Mechanicus, Almaty, Kazakhstan
ENERGYBOTS, Toluca, Mexico
Ram Rod, Eagleville, PA USA
Angelbots Explorers, El Paso, TX USA
Four Talking Tacos, Fairfax, VA USA
Yellow Giraffes, Renton, WA USA
Team Model Award
Beep Patrol, Litchfield Park, AZ USA
EQUIPE LOBÓTICOS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Codebots, Westport, CT USA
LEGO Monsters, Jacksonville, FL USA
Energy EX, Nagakute-Shi, Aichi-Ken, Japan
Liberal Homeschool Explore, Liberal, KS USA
St. James Robotics Team, Baton Rouge, LA USA
Magic Nightwing, Bloomfield Hills, MI USA
New Energy Team, Syosset, NY USA
New Energy Team 1, Syosset, NY USA
WIZE Dragons, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
BlockPlanet Aquaman Team, Tainan City, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Energy wind team, Nonthaburi, Thailand
Team Poster Award
The Unstoppable Robogirls, Chicago, IL USA
Abominable Brickslayers, North Reading, MA USA
Lego Inventors, Rogers, MN USA
RObotMANIA Junior, Bucuresti, Romania
Congratulations to all the teams who attended this year’s World Festival! We hope to have you back next year to celebrate our arts-themed 2023-2024 season, FIRST IN SHOWSM presented by Qualcomm.
Here is a sneak peek as the upcoming FIRST LEGO League Challenge, MASTERPIECESM:
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