In this weeks Blog

Coaches Chat slides posted

Boeing Innovation panel

Is your team registered?

Volunteer for FLL Events!

Make sure you read the entire blog!

Season Info

Coaches Chat slides from the 10/21 meeting posted

Slides from the 10/21 coaches chat are posted. The recording will go up as soon as I get it!

Boeing Innovation Panel 10/27

FIRST WA Robotics invites teams to attend our FIRST LEGO League Innovation Panels. These panels will run with leaders from multiple partner companies from late September through October at 3-4:30 pm, giving students a broad look at real world environmental innovation.

Panelists will help inspire their Innovation Projects by sharing how their work supports environmental stewardship and biodiversity goals — showing students how major companies tackle the same challenges they’re studying.

Your team will join a moderated 90 minute session with 4-5 professionals. Each panelist will give a short introduction, answer student questions, and share real examples of how their work intersects with environmental sustainability, biodiversity, and innovation.

If your team is interested in attending, use this link to sign up! Once you sign up, a meeting link along with some sample questions will be sent to you.

Is your FLL Challenge (Founders) team registered for the season?

I am making final tweaks to the FLL Challenge assignment schedule before I post it later this week, only teams that are fully registered with both FIRST Inspires and FIRST Washington, and have paid the FIRST Washington registration will be placed in an event. If you are not sure if your team is fully registered, please check here- https://firstwa.org/challenge-team-status/

Volunteer for FIRST Washington!

It takes hundreds of volunteers each season to successfully run FLL events in Washington. In order to participate in a competition, we require each FLL team to provide at least one adult volunteer during the season. This can be at the same event where your team is competing, or at a different event. In addition to providing much needed volunteers to run our events, this is an excellent way for adults associated with a team to learn more about event processes such as judging.

In order to track and ensure teams are meeting this commitment, please use this FORM to provide your team contact information, volunteer contact information, and the event where they have registered to volunteer. Please note that filling in this form does NOT register them to volunteer. All volunteers need to sign up on their dashboard HERE and complete a youth protection background check.

If you have any questions about registering to volunteer, contact the FIRST Washington volunteer manager Rhonda McRae at rhondam@firstwa.org