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Nordic FIRST® LEGO® League Final 2025

10/12/25

Nordic FIRST® LEGO® League Final 2025

This year’s Nordic Final brought together 38 teams and nearly 400 children and young people in Odense, marking the culmination of a season with 18 regional tournaments, 6,500 participants, and 338 teams across the country. This year even included teams from the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

The event was made possible through collaboration with key partners including Epico, PwC, IBM, Danske Bank, and LEGO Play, supported by more than 100 judges and volunteers, 100 coaches, and at least 1,000 guests. The final received media coverage from TV2 Fyn and was recorded for a podcast, alongside a range of interactive tech activities for visitors.

Competition categories

Teams competed in five core categories:

  • Robot Game
  • Robot Design & Programming
  • Innovation Project
  • Core Values
  • Marketing

The title of Nordic Champion went to Svampebobberne from Aarhus, who together with several other top-performing teams have made a bid to represent the Nordic region at global events in South Korea, Greece, Houston, and Canada.

This year’s theme, UNEARTHED, challenged students to create innovative solutions for the archaeological problems of the future, and the level of creativity and technical insight across the 38 finalist teams was exceptional.

The Nordic Final 2025 was a celebration of innovation, academic excellence, and collaboration. It was a reminder of the incredible potential within the next generation of Nordic technology creators.


FIRST® LEGO® League in Denmark

FIRST LEGO League (FLL) in Denmark is a national STEM programme for children aged 6–16, operated by Coding Pirates since 2022. The programme aims to inspire children and young people to become creative users and makers of technology through hands-on work with innovation, problem-solving, robot building, and programming.

FLL divisions

FLL in Denmark consists of two divisions:

  • Explore (ages 6–9) — children work creatively with a real-world problem and build a model that they present at a local festival.
  • Challenge (ages 10–16) — the largest competition, where teams develop an innovation project, build and programme LEGO robots, and compete on the robot game field.

The programme is built on six core values: discovery, innovation, impact, inclusion, teamwork, and fun, which guide all activities throughout the season.

Each year, participants work with a new global theme. In the 2024/2025 season, the theme SUBMERGED allowed 5,300 children to explore life beneath the ocean surface and develop ideas to protect marine environments.

FLL events take place across the country through local tournaments, and have even reached Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Iceland. The best teams move on to the Nordic Final in Odense, which gathers hundreds of children, coaches, and volunteers for a festive weekend filled with robot matches, project presentations, and hands-on activities.

Annual report 2024:
Download the annual report (PDF)

Website:
https://firstlegoleague.dk/

Coding Pirates

Coding Pirates is a nonprofit organisation dedicated to strengthening the creative and productive IT skills of children and young people through hands-on technological play and learning. Across Denmark, the organisation runs local club sessions where participants explore coding, digital design, robotics, and creative technology in an open, curiosity-driven environment.

At the heart of Coding Pirates is a diverse community of volunteers: IT professionals, teachers, programmers, researchers, designers, and makers. Together, they share a passion for empowering the next generation to develop technological courage, imagination, and creative confidence.

Coding Pirates works to ensure that all children, regardless of age, gender, culture, or ability, can participate and grow. The organisation promotes an inclusive approach to technology rooted in reflection, exploration, and collaboration. Through its activities, Coding Pirates helps young people engage with technology in ways that connect to education, research, entrepreneurship, business, and broader society.

With a focus on creativity, empowerment, and community, Coding Pirates plays a central role in nurturing Denmark’s future innovators, problem-solvers, and digital creators.

Coding Pirates joined EU Code Week as a supporter in September 2025.

Annie Bergh, Swedish Coding Ambassador and President of the Code Week Council, attended on 29 November the FLL Nordic Finals and met with General Secretary Louise Overgaard to discuss possibilities of collaboration in 2026 and beyond.

Annie summarised her impressions by pointing out: “It was a great honour to represent as a VIP guest Code Week in the FLL 2025 Nordic Finals organised by Coding Pirates. Big thanks for the amazing VIP programme prepared. The impressive technical knowledge of the young people involved, their creativity, their visionary project ideas reflect a strong and positive belief in the future, and their voice needs to be heard and reflected in today’s decisions about the future.”

Read more from Annie about the event here.

Annual report 2024:
Download the annual report (PDF)

Website:
https://codingpirates.dk/

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Aoife O'Driscoll