The FIRST LEGO League (FLL) is a result of an impressive alliance between FIRST and LEGO Companies. The FLL is an international hands-on, sport-like, robotics program for children 9-14 years of age. Guided by mentors and their own imagination, FLL students solve actual engineering challenges, develop important life skills, and learn to contribute positively to society, enhancing characteristics such as team-building, problem solving, analytical thinking and creativity.

Every September, a new Challenge is unveiled and over the course of 8 weeks, the FLL international teams strategize, design, build, program, test and refine a fully autonomous robot capable of completing the mission. During the process, the teams also search the web, talk to scientists, visit the Library and develop compelling presentations that relate to a problem or opportunity facing the world today.

On 9 February 2006, the first FLL in Egypt Competition was organized by the PSC in cooperation with the IEEE GOLD Egypt. The aim of the "Ocean Odyssey Challenge" was that the participants apply science and technology to better understand the world's oceans; the importance of which was tragically enhanced by the tremendous losses associated with the recent Tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Four school teams, each including five students and one supervisor, participated in the Challenge. They trained for two months in the RoboAlex lab in the ALEXploratorium and on the day of the event presented the results. All participants received medals and a special LEGO trophy was awarded to the leading teams.

In 2006, the mission is the "Nano Quest". Nanotechnology is a new scientific frontier that will impact many facets of society, from medicine to computers to the environment. The nano world is 100,000 times smaller than the thickness of a single strand of hair.  At the nano level, everything jumps and shakes–even solid things, such as tabletops.  Imagine, the atoms that make up a solid object constantly move and vibrate!

Nanotechnologists move atoms and molecules around to produce amazing new discoveries. Scientists believe that someday nanotechnology will allow us to cure diseases using devices small enough to travel through the human body.  Others believe nanotechnology will allow us to travel into space in an elevator using a system of tiny tubes and centrifugal force. Due to nanotechnology, now you can buy things, such as stain-resistant clothes and bouncier tennis balls.

The "Nano Quest" robot game mission models represent just some of the technology and ideas that scientists are thinking about or working on presently.  Through the "Nano Quest" project,  participants will be asked to join the exploration of this new and fascinating world.