Is your team ready for MASTERPIECE? For the 2023-2024 season, FIRST LEGO League will be looking how science, technology, engineering, and math all combine with the arts. It is sure to be an amazing season! We can’t wait to see your teams’ masterpieces of robot design and innovation projects!
We have worked hard to create some unofficial MASTERPIECE resources to guide your team through your FLL journey. We are still in the process of creating the rest of our resources, but we hope you find all of ours useful! We also have all the links for the official FIRST LEGO League Challenge resources with helpful descriptions at the bottom of this page.
The Moment Makers Worksheet Resources
We have created a number of worksheets to guide your team throughout their initial robot design strategy planning and throughout all robot design innovations and iterations. Writing ideas, challenges, failures, and successes will help your team remember the process it took to turn into the final design and communicate what worked, what did not, and why to each other and the judges.
MASTERPIECE Mission Planning Chart (This is a worksheet to guide the team members through thinking of an initial strategy to complete each mission as well as thinking of which missions they want to prioritize based on distance, ease of travel, points, etc. Print as many sheets as you need to document all your teams ideas. Use a separate row for each of your team’s ideas for each mission.)
MASTERPIECE Robot Design Notebook (This is a worksheet to help the team members document each robot build or program innovation or change and their reasoning behind each decision. Have the team take turns filling out a new sheet each meeting, preferably during the idea generation, testing, and decision making. Use this worksheet as a beginning of your notes, but feel free to take up as many blank sheets of paper with sketches and notes.)
The Moment Makers Video Resources
Robot Game: Building for Reliability
This is a webinar our team presented on Building for Reliability in the robot game. We discuss overall building best practices, gearing, building for durability, and methods to achieve greater consistency through only your robot build.
Innovation Project: Building Problem Solvers
We created a video on the Innovation Project and how it can help build your team into problem solvers. We will walk teams through what is involved in the Innovation Project from identifying a problem, designing a solution, creating a prototype, sharing and iterating your solution, and communicating your work with others.
Note that this video was made specifically for the CARGO CONNECT 2021-2022 season and thus describes an outdated problem topic, but the rest of the video is consistent with the current Innovation Project requirements. We plan to update this video soon.
Innovation Project: Create and Iterate Your Prototype
We created a video on how how to create and iterate your team’s Innovation Project as you progress through the season by using one of our own past Innovation Projects as an example. We will talk about how we went from just a drawing of our solution idea, to a proof-of-concept prototype, to a full-sized functional model.
Official FIRST LEGO League Resources
Judging Rubrics (These are the official scoresheets the judges fill out after your judging session. Try to rank as high as you can in each section throughout the season and structure your presentation so that the judges know all the hard work your team put into these areas. Good luck!)
Judging Session Flowchart (This is the official judging session flowchart all judges will use. Review the judging session flowchart with your team prior to your competition so that everyone knows what to expect.)
Engineering Notebook (see specifically pages 4-6 for the Innovation Project prompt for the season) Teams should keep a record of their engineering journey throughout the season. Using this document itself is optional. Use whatever format works best for your team! Our team personally used a combination of handwritten notes and a word processor file where we could insert photos and type descriptions. We kept everything in a big binder we could then share with the judges.
Robot Game Rulebook (check for updates throughout the season on rules at the Challenge Updates)
Robot Game Mission Model Instructions:
| Bag 1 – 3D Cinema | Bag 9 – Sound Mixer |
| Bag 2 – Theater Scene Change | Bag 10 – Light Show |
| Bag 3 – Immersive Experience | Bag 11 – Virtual Reality Artist |
| Bag 4 – MASTERPIECE (note: this includes many “extra” pieces for your team to use their creativity to build their own model for part of the mission) | Bag 12 – Craft Creator |
| Bag 5 – Augmented Reality Statue | Bag 13 – Expert Delivery |
| Bag 6 – Music Concert | Bag 14 – Audience Delivery |
| Bag 7 – Rolling Camera | Bag 15 – Precision Tokens, in addition to 2×2 MASTERPIECE Tiles and coach badges (that your team can use as souvenirs or awards for the season) |
| Bag 8 – Movie Set |
Official Robot Game Paper Score Sheet
Official Robot Game Scoring Calculator (see and use what the referees will use to score your robot table runs!)
Team Meeting Guide (This is a completely optional resource that gives suggested meeting tasks over 12 sessions throughout the season. This may be helpful especially for rookie coaches. However, feel free to use this guide as much or as little as you want. Slides suggested for each session are linked below. Again, utilize whatever is useful to your team. Every team and their needs are different!)
The Moment Makers 
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