FIRST® LEGO® League

Open International Japan 2020

FIRST Japan is thrilled to announce that we will host the FIRST LEGO League Open International
in 2020 in Nagoya Japan.
We will be welcoming more than 80 teams from more than 50 countries and celebrating students
and their Gracious Professionalism, passion for science, technology and so much more.
This is not only the FLL event, but also FLL Jr. EXPO and FRC off-season event will be held
together. (We’ll have 40 teams for FLL Jr., 80 teams for FLL and 9 teams for FRC).
We are looking forward to seeing you all in 2020 the year the Olympic Game will be held in Japan.

Dates: May 7th-10th, 2020

Venue: Nagoya International Exhibition Hall (Portmesse Nagoya)

https://portmesse.com/en

Address: 2-2 Kinjo-futo, Minato-ku, Nagoya Google map link

Website: We’ll let you know when Event website is opened in October.

Accommodation: There are many hotels in Nagoya area. A list of recommended hotels with
discount will be released in October 2019 at our event website.

Food: Lunches on May 8,9 and 10 and snacks at Friendship Night will be provided.

Participation fee: 27,000Yen per team member, 22,000Yen per coach,family and friends.

Preliminary schedule:
Thursday May 7, Team arrival, Pit set up, City tour (optional) .
Friday, May 8, Coach meeting, Opening ceremony, Practice rounds, Judging, friendship night.
Saturday, May 9, Judging, Robot games round.
Sunday, May 10, Robot games round, Closing ceremony.

Invitation process:

1.Selected Partners are being given limited number of invitation, which will be then allocated by each
Partner in their country or region.

2.The organizer will contact partners to follow up on accepted and declined invites in order to relocate
invites to fill the quota of the event hopefully by December 2019. Further information for each team’s
registration will require Partners to forward the details of each team’s coach/es.
3.The organizer will share registration details with the coaches. One team consists of 2-10 students and
1-2 coaches. Deadline to register is the 29th of February 2020.

4. Qualified teams will receive emails with invitations to register for the event.

5. Guests can register through website from December.

Registration for volunteers: Will be available at event website from November 2019.

Arrival: Chubu Centrair International Airport will be the nearest airport to the venue.

To the venue : Kinjo-futo station is the nearest station to the facility and it’s about 25 minutes by train
from Nagoya station. Tokyo station to Nagoya station is about 90 minutes.

Visa: Teams that require a visa can ask Takahiro Kondo the Tournament Director for a Letter of
invitation.

Primary Contact: Takahiro Kondo, the Tournament Director.

e-mail : kondo@firstjapan.jp

More information will be posted on our event website.

We hope you’ll be able to attend and we look forward to seeing you in May 2020.
If you have any questions, please contact FIRST Japan (e-mail : info@firstjapan.jp)

Provide the invitation list:

Partner Country Places for Open

FIRST Japan Japan 6

TBD China 2

FEST Republic of Korea 2

Macquarie University Australia 2

SESI- Brazilian Social Services of Industry-National
Department Brazil 2

Fundación Scientia Spain 2

Stichting Techniekpromotie Netherlands 2

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) England (UK) 2

HANDS on TECHNOLOGY e.V. Germany 2

FIRST Israel Israel 2

Bilim Kahramanlari Dernegi Turkey 2

FIRST Scandinavia Denmark 2

FIRST Scandinavia Norway 2

FIRST Scandinavia Sweden 2

EduACT Greece 2

Stichting Techniekpromotie Belgium 2

ATLAB Trading, LLC Saudi Arabia 2

ATLAB Trading, LLC UAE 2

RobotiX Mexico 2

Future Engineers Russia 2

Duck Learning Singapore 2

ESUN Robot Association Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) 2

Fundación SparkTalents Chile 2

Fondazione Museo Civico di Rovereto Italy 1

MTÜ Robootika Estonia 1

MTÜ Robootika Latvia 1

West Side Robot lab France 1

IES Ukraine 1

FIRST® Ohio 1

FIRST® Virginia/DC 1

FIRST® Wisconsin 1

FIRST® Michigan 1

FIRST® Oregon 1

FIRST® California - Los Angeles 1

FIRST® Southern California 1

FIRST® Guam 1

Techno Future Egypt Egypt 1

Tshwane University of Technology South Africa 1

UNIMINUTO Colombia 1

Plan Ceibal Uruguay 1

Sasbadi Sdn Bhd Malaysia 1

HANDS on TECHNOLOGY e.V. Austria 1

HANDS on TECHNOLOGY e.V. Slovakia 1

HANDS on TECHNOLOGY e.V. Switzerland 1

HANDS on TECHNOLOGY e.V. Hungary 1

HANDS on TECHNOLOGY e.V. Poland 1

Robotiikka- Ja Tiedekasvatus Ry Finland 1

Kiwi FIRST New Zealand 1

India STEM Foundation India North 1

EduTECH India South 1

Duck Learning India West 1

The Hong Kong Youth Federation/Semia Limited Hong Kong 1

Gammaco (Thailand) Co. Ltd. Thailand 1

FELTA Multi-Media Inc Philippines 1

Mikrobot Indonesia 1

Fundacion Steam Costa Rica 1

Education and Technolgy Center-Cedars Cultural School Lebanon 1

Play Academy Morocco 1

Viet Tinh Anh JSC Vietnam 1

Evoluir21 Portugal 1