Now in its 4th year at NYU-Poly, FIRST LEGO League is a surefire way to get students as young as eight excited about engineering by letting them be engineers.  Each year, FIRST issues a real-world problem that can be solved through robotics—LEGO robotics, to be specific. Thousands of students ages 8-14 take up the challenge, competing in local qualifying tournaments around the country with the hope of advancing to the final games this spring.