FLL 2026: Rules for M13 Keystone Species FIRST LEGO League 2026-2027 BIOGLOW Founders Edition Challenge

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• Your team’s keystone species is on the restoration platform, and the young trees are raised: 30

You can use the bricks in bag 20 to build your keystone species model. Your keystone species counts as equipment and will be included in the pre-match inspection. Teams will be asked to identify their keystone species at that time.

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Because Missions 13–15 can be placed on the docks chosen by the team, this model can be positioned to suit your strategy. If it is placed at the upper-right dock near the Blue Home Area, the robot can return directly to home and save time.

This may be the simplest of the dock missions. A passive attachment could open the bottom of a basket carrying the Keystone Species, or another release mechanism could drop the model onto the Restoration Platform. It helps if the Keystone Species is heavy enough to press the platform down and raise the Young Trees.

Keep the Keystone Species as compact as practical, or shape it so that it occupies a small footprint when released, making the Restoration Platform easier to hit. Since it is built from the pieces in bag 20, a dense upright cylinder- or block-like shape may be useful.

One strategic option is to place this mission at the Farm dock. The nearby Spider Habitat makes careful driving important, and this relatively simple mission may reduce the chance of disturbing it compared with a more complicated dock task.

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