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FIRST AGE and UNEARTHED
FIRST AGE and UNEARTHED
Welcome to the FIRST® AGE™ season. LEGO bricks. Game pieces. Tools. Team T-shirts. Volunteer pins. Engineering notebooks. Pizza boxes. Banners. Remove the people from a FIRST® community event, and these are some of the objects you might see left behind. They are the artifacts future archaeologists can use to put together the pieces of the FIRST story. Archaeology helps us uncover cultural histories through the study of artifacts. The field provides insight into how living beings have interacted with our planet and each other throughout history. It reconstructs the stories of our communities so we can learn from our past. During our archaeology-inspired season, FIRST teams and supporters will use STEM and collaboration skills to unearth new findings about ourselves and our collective communities to help build a better world. Dig in with FIRST!
ORENDA Lego League:
Request for coaches this season will be sent out soon.
Student registration will be available after teams are determined by number of coaches who volunteer. Children of coaches are automatically placed on a team!
Limited spots. First come, first serve.
Additional information:
Lego Festival on April 18th, 2026
There will be ~10 weekly team meeting held before the festival, likely to start in January.
During the festival, all teams get to participate in several STEM activities while waiting to present their team build to the judges.
Questions can be addressed to: orendalegoleague@gmail.com
Check out the EXPLORE videos on the official Lego League website! https://www.firstlegoleague.org/season
Information about being a Lego Coach:
Teams are composed of 6 students and 2 coaches. Together as a team you will work to build a model no bigger than 15"x 30", make a poster to tell about it, and attend an expo where students get to show off their work to family, friends, other students, and the staff of FIRST. Teams typically meet once a week for about 8-10 weeks. Our expo is hosted by SHEN this year on January 25 at High School West.
Coaches will need to do the following:
Complete online training, background check and waiver from LEGO. Instructions to follow after committing
Choose a place to meet each week. ORENDA is default, but could meet at a house or library as long as 2 adults are always present
Fill out the ORENDA Volunteer Form
Review the EXPLORE resources on the First Lego Site
Communicate with parents about the team meetings, LEGO festival and other logistics
Collect $50 payment from each student the first Team Meeting and give to ORENDA LEGO coordinator
We use the following components which will be provided to you:
LEGO! Lots and lots of LEGOs that we provide to you. Each team is given bins of LEGOs to work with.
Coach's Guidebook: You can use as much or as little of this as you want. It contains idea starters, meeting plans, robot build instructions, mini-build activities, ways to help your team make decisions, and a ton of other helpful things. If you are more of a wing-it kind of person, that is fine too.
An Inspire Kit: This is a small kit of LEGO that builds the required models for the season as well as extra “prototyping” pieces and baseplates to experiment and learn through trial and error.
SPIKE kit: This is a kit that you can use to build a robot or a machine. There are plenty of pre-planned, step by step instructions to build various types of machines/robots, or you can choose to invent a new one with your team! These are programmable...but don't freak out. It is drag and drop picture programming you can do on an iPad. The commands are start, stop, turn, run for x seconds, etc. It is very basic and easy and we have plenty of mentors to come in and help you if you need it.
A tri-fold presentation board: This is used to make the poster that tells about your model.
The Coach’s Role
As a coach in FIRST ® LEGO® League Explore, your job is to guide and support your team while allowing the children to take ownership of their learning. The team will rely on you to help them stay focused, ask guiding questions, and provide tools or resources when needed. You don’t need to be an engineering expert or a seasoned educator – your goal is to create a space where curiosity thrives and every child feels empowered to contribute.
Coaches in FIRST LEGO League Explore will:
• Facilitate Play and Learning: Guide the team as they explore STEM concepts using the Explore Set and create their team model and poster.
• Promote Teamwork: Encourage team members to share ideas, take turns, and collaborate as they work together.
• Champion Core Values: Model the FIRST Core Values and recognize how teams apply them throughout each session.
• Prepare the Team: Help the team prepare to present their team model and poster at the festival event, ensuring they’re ready to share what they’ve learned and created.
• Be a Role Model: Celebrate every step of progress, no matter how small, and encourage the team to embrace new ideas and challenges.
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