LEGO Building Competition

Description

Student teams will have the opportunity to show their creativity and building skills as they work together to display their chosen theme using LEGO bricks. Lego comes from the Danish word for “play well”, and we look forward to seeing how your students showcase their imagination and play well in this exciting contest. The LEGO Building contest is a spectator activity and will require anyone over the age of 18 to have a L.E.S.T. Tournament Pass to be a part of the audience.  

Schedule

The date, time, and location of the L.E.S.T. LEGO Building Contest will be found on the L.E.S.T. Master Schedule, when published on this website. The competition will begin promptly with a prayer and directions.

Rules / Regulations

  1. Building teams will have one hour to complete their build once instructions and a brief Q&A are complete.
  2. Adjudication will take place immediately after the builds are complete.
  3. Participants will be notified of their placement directly following adjudication.
  4. Each Lego Build Team will be provided with a LEGO Classic collection of bricks (property of the L.E.S.T.) from which they will construct their build.
  5. Builders will randomly draw a theme.
  6. Participants will be adjudicated on the following criteria:
    • Creativity / Originality
    • Aesthetics / Technique
    • Detail / Use of LEGO elements
    • Teamwork
    • How your build corresponds to the selected theme
    • Presentation (Teams will give a brief verbal description of the build.)
  7. Each team will be given a copy of the adjudicator’s rubric in the packet that schools receive at the Closing Ceremony.

How to Participate

Lego Build Teams are limited to two teams per school, a 5th/6th Grade team AND a 7th/8th Grade team, made up of two participants per team.

Schools must indicate on the General Registration form (due early December) the school’s intent to participate.

Specifics of the school’s team (participants, level) are due by the mid-December event registration deadline.

Awards

Awards will be given for 1st – 3rd place teams in each grade category (5th-6th and 7th-8th). Awards will be presented at the L.E.S.T. closing ceremony, along with photos of winning participants’ builds.