In this weeks Blog

Volunteers Needed for Seminfinals and State!

Congratulations to those that attended the Challenge Qualifiers!

Coaches Chat 12/17- Cancelled

Semifinal Assignments, Awards and Advancement info!

Reminder from FIRSTWA

Make sure you read the entire blog!

Challenge Qualifiers Done!

Congratulations to all teams that attended an FLL Challenge Qualifier!

We had 550 teams compete in 22 events over the last 2 weekends!

All teams that participted should be proud of what they learned and accomplished this season! 

Reminder

FIRST Washington’s office is closed for the holidays from 12/24/2025 – 1/2/2026.  If you need any reimbursements from accounting, please get them submitted before 12/24. We will not be responding to emails or processing any reimbursements during this time.

Coaches Chat 12/17 Cancelled

Our scheduled Coaches Chat for tomorrow 12/17 is cancelled. Our next Coaches Chat will be 1/13/26, just before the first Semifinal weekend! See you then!

Semifinal Assignments, Awards and Advancement Numbers

Numbers of advancing teams from all events are posted here

Awards and advancement info from the events will be posted here. 

Teams advancing to the Semifinals will have their assignment posted by the end of the day Friday 12/19. I will also post a form like the Qualifiers for teams to request changes. 

With the event sizes not being flexible like the Qualifiers, in order to move a team to a new event a team from the requested event must have asked to switch out. 

This is a longer process, and I am able to accomidate less requests. 

Volunteers needed for Semifinal and State Events!

We ask that all teams supply at least 1 volunteer for an event your team is not attending.

We are still in need of volunteers for our FLL Semifinals and State Championships! We are especially in need of adults to fill judging roles. If you are a coach or mentor, judging at an event other than where your students are competing is an amazing way to learn about the process and how to coach your students on exactly what they need to do in their presentation to judges.  

 We also need students in various roles – referee, scorekeeper, queuer, and field reset. This is a great way for students to meet their volunteer hour requirement! Here are the events with the greatest need: 

 January 17-18- please note these dates are different than Seattle!

Covington Semifinals- Cedar Heights Middle School, Covington

January 24-25

Seattle Semifinals- Lincoln High School, Seattle

January 24th

Eastern Washington State Championship- St. Georges School, Spokane

February 1st

Western Washington State Championship- Amazon Meeting Center, Seattle

 If you are able to help, click here to find an event near you: Search Event 

Thank you for your support in making this program sucessful for your team and others as well! We could not do it without you! 

Important Dates & Deadlines

• January 13 – Coaches Chat
• January 24/25 – Semifinals
• January 24- Eastern WA State
• February  1st – Western WA State

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