The 4th Egyptian Finals
27-28 December, 2008
Alexandria, Egypt

For two days, 20 teams of Schools students compete to win the FIRST Lego league competition in Egypt, the First place winner will represent Egypt in the Arab Finals in March in Jordan, then join the International finals of the competition in Atlanta, USA in April.

The competition in Egypt is Under the auspices of the Egyptian Ministry of Education and the Egyptian Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, and organized by IEEE Egypt and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Planetarium Science Center (PSC).

FIRST LEGO League (FLL) is a global program created to get kids excited about science and technology. Geared for ages 9-14 (up to 16 outside of the U.S. and Canada), FLL utilizes theme-based Challenges to engage kids in research, problem solving, and engineering.

Each annual Challenge has two parts, the Project and the Robot Game. Working in teams of up to 10 kids and guided by at least one adult coach, team members have about 10 weeks to:
    • Build an autonomous robot that will, in 2 minutes and 30 seconds, complete pre-designed missions
    • Analyze, research, and invent a solution for a given assignment
    • Create a clever presentation about their solution to perform in front of a panel of judges

This year theme was about climate connections: Teams do research about how climate affects their own community. Identify a problem caused by climate in their area, analyze climate data about the problem, and discover what their community is doing about it. Find another community somewhere in the world with the same issue and identify any solutions they are working on. Then the robotic mission is done on a fixed play ground all over the world that simulates a climate connection cases and mission needed to be done by the robot.

The first day, teams competed on the best presentation, best robot design and best team work. The day ended with training for all the teams to try their robots in doing the mission needed this year. This training is a preparation for the second day official mission's finals.

The second day started with the main competition where teams try 3 rounds with their robots to achieve this year mission. 60 Rounds for 20 schools by 6 judges ended by the 1st place winner a team from a school in Asuit governorate in Egypt.