Season 2026/27 - Bioglow
General Unearthed season resources
Team Meeting guide
Guide book for coaches to the Bioglow Founders Edition season. The book contains 12 optional guided sessions and lots of other useful advice.
Engineering notebook
Student workbook for the Bioglow Founders Edition season. The book contains workspace for students to complete tasks for the 12 guided sessions and lots of other useful advice.
Robot Game Rulebook
All the rules, scoring and information you need for this season's Robot Game.
Challenge updates
Important updates for the Robot Game. Updates are released through the season override anything in the Robot Game Rulebook.
Multimedia Resources
Useful links and resources for your team to begin their research and complete the challenges for the Unearthed season.
Session Powerpoint slides
Lesson slides to accompany the 12 optional guided sessions, as laid out in the Team Meeting Guide and Engineering Notebooks. When you open the link, scroll down to Support materials > Challenge Session Support Slides
IET Season introduction video
An introduction to the Bioglow theme by the IET's FIRST LEGO League team.
Robot Game missions video
A video explanation of the key rules and Robot Game missions for the Unearthed season. Be sure to read the Robot Game Rulebook for more details of the rules.
Robot Game Field Setup Video
A video guide of how to set up your FIRST LEGO League Challenge Robot Game table for the Unearthed season.
Robot Game Mission Building Instructions
Building instructions for the Unearthed Robot Game models. When you open the link, scroll down and select FIRST LEGO League Challenge > Building Instructions.
Core Values activities
This booklet contains activities that will help you and your team develop and practice Core Values. You can use your team Engineering Notebook to log your progress. Great for bonding your team at the beginning of the season. Use the red Challenge activities in the booklet.
Judging Rubrics
The Judging Rubrics are the score sheets that judges will use to grade your team at a FIRST LEGO League Challenge tournament. Be sure to look at these with your team well before an event to help with their projects and preparations.
Judging Session Flowchart
The flowchart explains the structure and timings of a judging session at a FIRST LEGO League Challenge tournament.
Example Judging Session Script and Questions
This example script and questions will give you and your team an idea of what to expect from a judging session at a FIRST LEGO League Challenge tournament. Judges do not have to stick to this script but the structure and style of questioning should be similar.
Robot Game Table Building Instructions
Having your Robot Game mat on a walled table is completely optional, although this IS how the Robot Game will be set up at FIRST LEGO League tournaments. If you wish to construct your own Robot Game table, this documents contains all the resources and dimensions you need.
Getting Started with FLL Challenge Slides
Our very own 'getting started' slide deck. Use this with your teams as an alternative to the official sessions in the Team Meeting Guide. We have provided tips, guidance and explanations of all four challenge strands.
Robot Game Mission Planner
Our Robot Game mission planner will help your team to analyse this year’s missions. Get them to discuss and then rate each missions to help them plan their Robot Game strategy.
Official Scoring Calculator
The official online Robot Game calculator, so your team can easily work out their Robot Game scores when they practise.
Ready for more?
You can find more useful resources for the Bioglow Challenge season on the official FIRST LEGO League website.
Other useful resources
Spike Prime Introduction Lesson slides
Six lessons from our computing scheme of work designed for introducing students to the basics of their LEGO Spike Prime kit. Get to grips with accurate movements, turning, lifting and the robot's sensors.
Spike Prime Quick start sheet
All the basics of how to get started with your Spike Prime robot and move with consistency. All on two sides of A4. A useful resource sheet to have handy for your team.
Robot Design Lesson Slides
Lesson slides for you to introduce some of the key concepts in Robot Design. Learn building techniques and attachment ideas for different purposes commonly needed in the Robot Game.
FLLTutorials.com
A website created by former FIRST LEGO League global champions, it's packed with a huge amount of resources to support FIRST LEGO League teams and coaches.
Bricklink Studio
A brilliant free LEGO CAD design tool. You can import the pieces for the sets you own and design robots or attachments, make instructions and export them for use. Download for free from the button below and access tutorials and help HERE.