--- title: "Teams From Around the World Made History at #FIRSTChamp" description: FIRST LEGO League World Festival award winning teams image: https://community.firstinspires.org/hubfs/image-library/web/cmp26-fll-action.jpeg --- Last week, thousands of students, coaches, volunteers, sponsors, and STEM supporters came together in Houston, TX, USA to celebrate the 2026 [*FIRST*® Championship](https://www.firstinspires.org/programs/first-championship). The week was filled with friendly competition, exciting innovation, and lots of Gracious Professionalism® as we commemorated the conclusion of the 2025-2026 archaeology-inspired robotics season** ***FIRST*® AGE™ presented by Qualcomm. The *FIRST*® LEGO® League World Festival at the *FIRST* Championship hosted 160 *FIRST*® LEGO® League Challenge teams and 40 *FIRST*® LEGO® League Explore teams from around the world. This year has been about uncovering clues from the past to build the future together. **Here is the complete 2026 *****FIRST***** LEGO League Challenge World Festival Awards List:** Champion’s Award Winner: - ROBOTECH from Barcelona, Spain Champion’s Award Finalists: - mindfactory from Aargau, Switzerland - SCRAPS by FutureLab from Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, Greece - SESI SENAI SC - Pipeline Surfer's from Itajaí, Brazil - Tolebi Daryn from Lenger, Kazakhstan - Robot Rampage from Saint Paul, Minnesota **Volunteer of the Year:** - Brenda Ronnebaum from Ohio Innovation Project Winner: - Masterminds from Moscow, Idaho Innovation Project Finalists: - The Unearthed Dinos from Sammamish, Washington - Turbo GatorBots from Gainesville, Florida - Northeast - Next Level from Charlottesville, Virginia/DC - FLLintstone Explorers from Timberlea, Nova Scotia - S-TEAM from Miskolc, Hungary Robot Design Winner: - Ctrl+Alt+Elite from Yorba Linda, California- Southern Robot Design Finalists: - Solvers of X & Y from Aurora, Ontario - Team Alpha Geek from Brookfield , Wisconsin - 3A Robotics from Calgary, Alberta - The Inventors from Attica, Greece - Giraffes #3388 from Shoham, Israel Robot Performance Winner: - RZ81 from Beijing, China Robot Performance Rank: 1. X-RIVER from Hefei, China 2. X-FREE from Hefei, China 3. Sabik from Sabinov, Slovakia 4. The potter by the stream from Taichung, Chinese Taipei 5. ROBOTECH from Barcelona, Spain Core Values Winner: - Diggabots from Saint Paul, Minnesota **Core Values Finalists:** - DYCI Blue Ocean from Bocaue, Philippines - Robo Rovers from Montvale, New Jersey - North - STARBOTS from Gómez Palacio, Mexico - Titans from Buffalo Grove, Illinois - Eagles Tech from Asuncion, Paraguay Breakthrough Award Winners: - Artifact Alliance from Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania - East - Bit Kids 101 from Croatia - Where’s Chicken? From Madison, Alabama Engineering Excellence Award Winners: - Team Turtlebots from Cumming, Georgia - THE FLINTSTONES from Izmir, Türkiye - Pynauts from Plano, Texas - FIT Rising All-Star Award Winners: - Nebula Horizon from Herndon, Virginia/DC - ALBATROID from Brasillia, Brazil - Iron Pegasus from Chandler, Arizona Motivate Award Winners: - Advanced Robotics Team from Woodstock, Maryland - NUCLEOLICOS from Toluca, Mexico - Innov8 from Mason, Ohio *Gracious Professionalism*® Award Winners: - Team Core X Rwanda from Kigali, Rwanda - FIZTEX from Almaty, Kazakhstan - Nothing BOT Robotics! from Austin, Texas - FIT *Coopertition* Award Winners: - Lego League Ladies from Martinsburg, West Virginia - New Zealand Indiana Drones from Central Dunedin, New Zealand - Forest Force from Kaunas, Lithuania Peer Award Winner: - Komodo Dragons from Dededo, Guam Coach/Mentor Awards: - John Seet, Unitrix from Singapore - Melissa Madsen, Code Crusader from Utah - Robert Doppler, TEAMRemint from Austria - Min Lu, Iron Pegasus from Arizona - Davy Goorts, LEGO Warriors from Belgium - Padmaja Kandisetty, Innov8 from Ohio  **Here is the complete 2025 *****FIRST***** LEGO League Explore World Festival Awards List:**  Core Values Award: - #5 Team Diamonds from Farmington, Michigan - Alem Innovators from Almaty, Kazakhstan - Astro-ologists from Madison, Alabama - Maremoto from Itajai, Brazil - The Dig Gig from Pozos, Santa Ana, Costa Rica - WINNING WIZARDS JR from Palatine, Illinois Team Poster Award: - MINATO LEGEND JAPAN from Ichihara, Japan - PANKIT from Rayong, Thailand - Quantic Bulls from Escobedo, Mexico - The Code of RAA from Tanta, Egypt - The Cookie Crunchers from Grayslake, Illinois Team Model Award: - Artifact Pack from Rogers, Minnesota - Astro-ologists 2 from Madison, Alabama - BDA Bots from Cypress, Texas - Deep Seekers from Astana, Kazakhstan - Fossil Bots – Green from Edmond, Oklahoma - Future Archaeologists from China - Kylin & Kiwi from China - Longnecks Awesomenecks from Kapolei, Hawaii - Micro Manatees from Benton, Arkansas - SSA-East Eaglets from Tucson, Arizona - Stranger Archaeology from Asan-si, South Korea - Tech Tigers from Marietta, Georgia - The Brick-ology Hunters from THESSALONIKI, Greece - The Roman Capybaras from Jura from Develier, Switzerland - Van Houston Academy from Houston, Texas Coding Award: - 705 CN Pickering from Pickering, Ontario - BCKLAS from Hong Kong - Fossil Finders from West Vancouver, British Columbia - LegoMasterBuilder from Katy, Texas - ROBOCEL from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Team NESA from Nashua, New Hampshire - Wize Wizards from Parker, Colorado Challenge Solution Award: - A.K.V.A Bots from Sunnyvale, California - Fossil Finders from Morgantown, West Virginia - KC - TEAM THUTMOSE TOMB TRACKERS from Singapore - Lego Land from Bucharest, Romania - Overpowered Spicy Robot Jr. from Syosset, New York - Super Mechanical Foxes from Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico - X Plus from Herriman, Utah **Congratulations to all the teams wh****o attended the 2026 World Festival! **We** **hope to have you back next year as we find new ways to strengthen the connections that protect our shared home in the biodiversity-inspired [*FIRST*® CANOPY](https://www.firstinspires.org/first-canopy) season. Check out a sneak peek of the 2026-2027 *FIRST* LEGO League BIOGLOWTM, kicking off on August 4, 2026:    **What do you think about the upcoming season? 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