2026 First Global Challenge

The First Global Challenge is an international youth robotics competition in which participants design and build robots and complete mission-based tasks. The 2026 edition will be hosted in Incheon and is expected to bring together more than 2,000 young people from around 200 countries, along with family members and officials. The event runs over multiple days and includes team-based robot challenges.

Opportunity to compete on an international stage, hands-on engineering and programming experience, access to game manuals and technical resources.

Young people from around 200 countries are expected to participate.

Each nation is invited to send a national team to participate; national team information is available via the event map and organiser channels.