Your challenge this season is to explore the cutting-edge
world of Biomedical Engineering to discover innovative
ways to repair injuries; overcome illnesses and disabilities;
and build healthier, stronger bodies. Once you know how
scientists, engineers, and doctors work together to find
solutions, do some research. What kinds of problems keep
people from leading happy and healthy lives? How could
your team help solve one of those problems?
Identify a Problem
Begin your project by creating a list of your body parts,
functions, or systems. Think about the things that could go
wrong with each one, and ways to protect, repair, or make
them stronger. Be creative. Be silly. Be serious. Think about
everything that makes you—YOU!

Once your list is complete, pick one body part, function
(like hearing or breathing), or system (like circulation with
the heart, veins, arteries, capillaries, and blood all working
together) and learn more about it!
Whether your team chooses an arm, ear, leg, brain, nerve,
heart, gene, tooth, lung, DNA strand, skin cell, eye, muscle,
nose, bone, stomach, your hands or feet, or a group of
parts that work together…it’s time to research. How does
your body part, function or system work with other body
parts, functions, or systems to keep you healthy? What
dangers does it face? What kinds of scientists, doctors, and
engineers are studying that part, function, or system? Find
out about one of the people who is working to make your
team’s body part, function, or system stronger and healthier,
to fix it when it’s injured, or to heal it when it’s sick.
Search out the problems and choose one to solve. Look
at reports. Read books and magazines. Browse Web sites.
Conduct a survey. Check with experts who work in and
around your community. Use any research tools you have
available. Be prepared to share your information sources.
Create an Inovat ive Solution
Choose one of the problems associated with the body part,
function or system your team has chosen to research and
suggest a solution—a new idea or an improvement on
something already being done. What is being done to fix
the problem? What could be done? What will it take to
make your team’s solution happen? How will your solution
help people live happier and healthier lives? A great
solution might take all the imagination and ingenuity
your team can muster. It might seem so obvious that you
wonder why the problem even exists.
Decide where your solution fits:
• Body—Repaired
• Body—Healed
• Body—Improved
And remember, the most important thing is to have fun.
Share with Others
Now, tell others about the problem you researched, and
exactly how your solution can help. You choose how to
share what you’ve learned. Here are some ideas for sharing.
Give a talk for parents. Create a website. Perform a skit.

Make a comic book. Rap. Create a poster. Pass out flyers.
Write a poem, song, or story. Present your research and
solution to lawmakers, doctors, engineers, or groups who
already help with your problem. Your presentation can be
simple or elaborate, serious or designed to make people
laugh while they learn. Your ideas can change the world!
Present Your Solution
at a Tournament
To be eligible for project awards you must have a live
presentation that:
• Describes your body part, function, or system, the
problem, and your team’s innovative solution
• Identifies at least one scientist, engineer, or doctor who
is working on the problem and tells about them
• Shows that your team did the research and tells about
the books, magazines, websites, reports, and other
resources you used to learn about your problem
and those working on it
• Tell how you shared your research findings with others
• Can be set up and presented in 5 minutes or less
• You are responsible for bringing any multimedia
equipment you need for your presentation with you to
the tournament. (Please check with your tournament
organizer to see what equipment can be used on site.)
Your presentation can include posters, slide shows, models,
multimedia clips, your research materials—you are limited
only by your team’s creativity. Remember, you want to
leave a lasting impression and you must have at least one
live presenter.
Need Help Geting Sta rted?
The 2010 Body Forward FLL Coaches’ Handbook contains
more information about FIRST LEGO League, the Body
Forward Challenge, tournaments, awards, and scoring.
Be sure to look at The Project rubric on page 106 and
The Project Chapter on page 48.
Information and resources are also available online at
http://www.firstlegoleague.org.
If you have more questions, e-mail fllprojects@usfirst.org
for Project support.

Create an innovative solution
Your team needs to agree on one unique solution to your
problem. Innovative means the solution is not already in use
by someone else. It can be a new idea or an improvement
on an existing idea. To do this, you may want to develop
ideas individually or in small groups and then present them
to the team, or you may want to collaborate on an idea
together. If starting separately, consider combining the
strengths of several solutions to create a final solution.
1. Brainstorm ideas with your team
2. Begin to develop a variety of designs
3. Draw pictures of your proposed solutions and/or
innovations to current solutions
4. Present each possible solution to the team
5. As a team, select one solution to focus on (this design
may combine the strengths of several designs)
6. Come together as a team to improve upon your
chosen solution
7. If it makes sense, build a prototype of your solution
Share your research and solution
This step is critical to completing the Project and is not just
about practicing your presentation. It is a chance for your
Project to make a difference. It is an opportunity to share
the excitement of science and technology with others.
This may even be an opportunity to motivate others to act.
1. Brainstorm who you can share your findings with such
as your school, a governing group, a local company,
a community organization, or other FLL teams. Think
about who would be most interested in what you
have learned and/or who might be able to use the
information positively.
2. Select who you want to share your findings with
and make arrangements for the presentation to
be completed prior to developing your Project
presentation for your FLL event.
3. Organize and prioritize the information you want to share.

there are
four major considerations:
• Showing how you achieved all Project objectives and all
three steps of the Project.
• Selecting a creative format or style of presentation that
complements your information and team member skills.
(The options are broad, including but not limited to a
discussion, formal presentation with props, skits, songs,
music and/or video.)
• Using the Project rubric found in the back of the current
FLL Coaches’ Handbook, as a guideline for what judges
will look for and paying close attention to qualities listed
in the excellent column.
• Setting a standard of quality. (See below how you can
understand the FLL standard of quality for Project
presentations.)
Polish and perfect
Take some time to discuss the following suggestions as a
team. This way, everyone understands what will help make
the work easier and the end result more successful and fun.
1. Standard of Quality
The best way for your team to understand the standard
of quality for Project presentations is to see some
presentations. Some FLL tournaments allow team
members and the public to view all Project presentations.
If this is true at your event, take advantage of it!
At other FLL tournaments the best presentations are
part of the closing ceremony. If so, pay attention!
You can also ask another team to rehearse their presentation
for you or watch the presentations available on
the Challenge Project Training DVD. The Minnesotabased
FLL organization called “High Tech Kids”
provides examples of winning presentations from
previous years at www.hightechkids.org
2. Understand and achieve the objectives.
Past experience shows that the most successful Projects
and their presentations are guided by the FLL theme
and project guidelines. The first step in developing
your Project, therefore, is a complete understanding of
the theme and the guidelines for this year.
3. Involve the Community
Your community is a very important source of support
and help. Draw on members of your community for
advice, resources, information and guidance. Community
organizations will promote your team’s involvement
in the FLL Project when you demonstrate mutual
interests.
4. Survey team’s talents
This is your team’s chance to shine! What can team
members contribute to make the presentation special?
Are any students interested in the arts … playing instruments,
acting, singing or poetry? Do any have special
technology talents regarding websites, video animation,
etc? Start from these strengths and design your
presentation around them.
5. Practice, Practice, Practice
Finally, your practice sessions should also include questions
and answers. You may want to consider inviting
parents, teachers, or other students to view a dress rehearsal
of your presentation. This critical audience can
ask questions of the team, give feedback, and support
the team by offering positive encouragement.