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Season event info

Help out new teams!

FIRST Washington registration update

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Season Event Info

Hello FLL Teams! I have some season event info for you! No venue details yet unfortunately, those will come out in the fall!

Founders Edition:

Challenge-

Events will run just like in past seasons, the first 2 (possibly 3) weekends in December. Teams are assigned an event closest to them, and there will be a process to request a change.

Western Washington teams that advance from their Qualifier to a Semifinal event in January and then to the Western Wahington State Championship in either late January or Early to mid February.

Eastern Washington teams that advance from their Qualifier will advance to the Eastern Washington State Championship. Historically this has been in January, but I do not know dates yet.

Explore-

Events will run just like in past seasons, the first 2 (possibly 3) weekends in December, strong possibility of one in mid January, and then some weekends in March. Teams will sign up for their choice of 3 and placed in 1, usually their first choice.

Future Edition-

We had said we would not be holding events for Future Edition, that is no longer the case! I have had multiple inquries about Future Edition and want to give those who would like to participate in an event the option to do so.

We will host 1 Future Edition event in mid January in Western Washington if there is enough interest.

As always, no teams will be confirmed in their events until all registrations are completed and all payments are made.

Founders Edition-

For Challenge this is registering your team with FIRST Inspires and paying their fee, registering with FIRST Washington and paying our fee ($350).

For Explore this is registering your team with FIRST Inspires and paying their fee, registering with FIRST Washington and paying our fee ($50) AND filling out the event registration with FIRST Washington.

Future Edition-

This is registering your team with FIRST Inspires and paying their fee, registering with FIRST Washington and paying our fee (TBD).

Help out new teams!

Hello coaches and former coaches!

With the change in FLL coming next season and the retirement of the SPIKE platform, there are no new Spike Prime or Spike Essential kits available anywhere.

If you have or know of any Spike Prime or Spike Essential kits you would be willing to donate to new teams starting this season they would appreciate it and it would help sustain our growth in Washington!

If you have any questions or want to help- you can email me at jacqueg@firstwa.org

FIRST Washington Registration

The FIRST Washington registration form will open August 1. We are working on revamping it so that it is not quite so long and is easier to fill out.

We will post in the blog when it is “officially” open but our target is to have it ready for sign ups on August 1st!