FIRST LEGO League 2025-2026 UNEARTHED with SCRATCH - Solutions and

The FIRST LEGO League 2025-2026 UNEARTHED competition challenges teams to recover artifacts, work around delicate structures, and complete several actions efficiently. This course explores practical solutions using the compact Smaller Pancake box robot.

You’ll study a variety of mission strategies and attachment designs, including active and passive mechanisms, gears, hooks, rubber bands, gravity-powered actions, and alignment techniques. The tutorials explain not only what the robot does, but also why each design and programming decision improves the run.

Each main tutorial is paired with a 10 out of 10 reliability test, showing how consistently the solution performs and how details such as starting position, tire grip, attachment preparation, and mission-model movement can affect the result.

To support fair play, our complete mission solutions are published only after the season has ended. Before starting the course, we recommend reviewing the FIRST LEGO League robot game guide.

Each lesson includes everything needed to explore the FIRST LEGO League 2025-2026 UNEARTHED competition: a step-by-step video tutorial, detailed mission rules, complete building instructions for the mission models and robot attachments, and the corresponding SCRATCH programs. The solutions use the compact Smaller Pancake box robot and are supported by 10 out of 10 tutorials that show how consistently each run performs. Don’t have the official UNEARTHED LEGO set? We’ve also included alternative challenges so students can practise similar ideas using parts they already have.

Who is this course for - and when should you use it?

Parents: Use the course at home with your child after the UNEARTHED season or while preparing for future robotics challenges. Build the attachments, test the programs, and explore how small changes can improve the robot’s performance and reliability.
Teachers & Teams: Use the lessons in classrooms, robotics clubs, or team training sessions. Pairs or small groups can work through the tutorials at their own pace, recreate the official missions, or take on our alternative challenges while developing their building, programming, testing, and problem-solving skills.

Before starting the course, we recommend reviewing the FIRST LEGO League robot game guide.