![Young participants from the UK team at the 2026 First Global Challenge, held at Songdo Convensia in Incheon, code and operate autonomous driving robot kits at the LG CNS experience booth. [LG CNS]](https://wimg.heraldcorp.com/news/cms/2026/10/08/news-p.v1.20261008.7a43f6026b664842bfab03a233e729e8_P1.jpg)
LG CNS announced Thursday that it is participating as an official sponsor of the 2026 First Global Challenge, running Wednesday through Saturday at Songdo Convensia in Incheon.
The First Global Challenge is the world's largest international youth robotics competition, organized by US nonprofit First Global since 2017. This year's event brings together youth representative teams from more than 190 countries to compete in designing and building robots for wildfire prevention and response.
At the event, LG CNS is operating an experience booth for young global participants based on its IT education social contribution program "AI Genius."
![Young participants from the Peru, Namibia and United Kingdom teams at the 2026 First Global Challenge, held at Songdo Convensia in Incheon, pose for a photo after completing the robot experience at the LG CNS booth. [LG CNS]](https://wimg.heraldcorp.com/news/cms/2026/10/08/news-p.v1.20261008.20e3e4f3ce9249dfb434e2c44af7bb24_P1.jpg)
Participants code and operate autonomous driving robot kits while completing missions that simulate LG CNS's global business operations.
The missions span four countries: a Korea scenario involves operating robot-based logistics equipment; a US scenario has participants collect good-quality items and hand them off to a picking robot; a Singapore scenario simulates smart financial services, including security authentication and fund transfers; and a Greece scenario lets participants trigger a bus departure by tapping a card in a smart transportation setting.
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