In this weeks Blog

Season Recap

Open Invitational

Explore Events

Message from the Finance Department

Make sure you read the entire blog!

Season Info

Congratulations Challenge teams!

Congratulations to all the teams that participated in FLL Challenge this season!

For perspective-

We held-

22 Qualifiers
4 Semifinals
2 State Championships

There were 550 Challenge teams competing in events this season!

Your teams should be very proud of what they have accomplished this season!

I look forward to seeing what they come up with next season!

Open Invitational Lottery

The Champions award finalist teams (one from East and one from West) will get first choice out of the below FLL Open Events.

Once the finalists have chosen, the remaining open spots will be available for signups to the award winning teams from the 2 state championships.

Teams will be selected at random for each event going in the order of the list below, so make sure you only choose events you can/want to actually attend.

If there are remaining spots, the sign up will open to teams that attended the state events.

Canada Cup of Robotics Niagara 2026
(1 spot) June 17-20, 2026
FIRST® LEGO® League Open International Championship Greece 2026
(1 spot) May 8-10, 2026
FIRST LEGO League KOREA Open Invitational
Korea (1 spot) July 3-5, 2026
Western Edge Invitational California
(1 spots) May 29-June 1, 2026
Georgia Ramblin’ Robots Invitationals (GR²Its)
(1 spot) June 5-7, 2026
WAFFLE (WPI Annual FIRST LEGO League Open Invitational Event) Massachusetts
(2 spots) June 12-14, 2026
American Robotics Open Championship, New Jersey
(3 or 4 spots) June 6-7, 2026

The form will be emailed directly to the award winning teams from the 2 state championships after 2/10

FIRST LEGO League Future Edition

FIRST will be livestreaming a demo of the new FIRST LEGO League experience at championships.

To see a list of questions and answers by FIRST, you can go here

While we don’t know what events in Washington will look like yet (timing, location, event size, etc), we will be holding both Founders events and Future events (if needed) next season!

Huge Congratulations to the 4 teams moving on from the 2 Championship events!

Our 2 teams advancing to the World Festival in Houston, TX

55142 Tomb Raiders, Royal City WA
27820 The Unearthed Dinos, Sammamish WA

Our 2 teams advancing to Open Invitationals

58650 Odyssey Dragons, Spokane WA
24975 Tinkering Turtles, Snoqualmie WA

FLL Explore Events!

For teams attending our Spring FLL Explore events, or interested in attending- make sure you have registered your teams. Some of our events are full!

events-

Snohomish 3/14 12:00-3:00pm
Glacier Peak High School

Sammamish- 3/21 or 22
Sammamish High School

Bonney Lake 3/7 12:45-3:00pm
Bonney Lake High School

Cheney- 4/11
Eastern Washington University

FIRST Washington registration and Event Registration- https://firstwa.org/explore-registration/

Are you registered?- https://firstwa.org/explore-event-assignments/

An important message from our Finance Dept regarding booster deposits

Important note: All checks must be made payable to FIRST Washington. We are unable to deposit checks made out to teams or individuals. This will delay your team from receiving these funds as they will have to wait for a new check to be issued correctly.