In this weeks Blog-

Invoices need to be secured!

Event Assignments- Are you Ready?

Event Update

Make sure you read the entire blog!

FLL Challenge Teams– FIRST Washington Invoices need to be secured this week! 

To participate in FIRST Washington Qualifier events:  

• You must be registered with FIRST HQ (firstinspires)   

• You must be registered with FIRST Washington – https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/c5f3e7b49ea6400b823696be6b954a59
•  Your FIRST Washington Invoice must be secured – As of this morning 522 invoices have been sent out and only 267 teams have secured their invoice. 

• You can secure your FIRST Washington invoice with at check, credit card or PO from your school (if you are a school affiliated team)

Teams are only assigned to events once this invoice is secured! 

I will need to cancel some events if teams are not paid or secured by the end of the week (10/24)

Event Assignments!

FLL Challenge– I am unable to assign teams that are not fully registered and paid or secured with both FIRST Inspires and FIRST Washington! If teams are not fully registered and secured by the end of the week I may be forced to cancel more events due to lack of teams. Once cancelled, I am unable to add them back, and late registrations will not be accepted due to lack of available space. Please get your team secured by the end of this week!

Are you ready?

Check the links below to verify your teams registrations and payments! 

FLL Challenge?

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FLL Explore?

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Event Update!

I still have a few locations I am waiting on confirmation. The schedule as it stands right now-

FLL Challenge-

1st weekend:

Chimacum (Saturday) Chimacum SD– Cancelled

Issaquah (Saturday & Sunday) Beaver Lake MS

Spokane (Saturday & Sunday) Freeman

Wapato (Saturday & Sunday) Wapato HS

Tacoma 1 (Sunday) Bellarmine Prep

2nd Weekend:

Federal Way (Saturday & Sunday)

Snohomish (Saturday & Sunday)

Issaquah (Sunday) Issaquah HS

Oak Harbor (Sunday) Oak Harbor HS

Olympia (Sunday) Jefferson MS

Tacoma 2 (Sunday) Bellarmine Prep

Still in progress: 

2-3 venues (Shoreline, Seattle and Everett)

FLL Explore-

Snohomish

Oak Harbor

Spokane

I hope to have the rest finalized by the end of this week. Fingers crossed! This is taking longer than usual!

Important Dates & Deadlines

• Open Now – FIRST Washington Registration
• December 6/7 – First weekend of Qualifiers
• December 13/14 – Second weekend of Qualifiers
• January 24/25 – Semifinals
• February  1st – Western WA State

More From FLL

In this weeks Blog-

Registration info!

Invoices

Are you Registered?

Reminder From Finance

Make sure you read the entire blog!

Are you registered?

Check the links below to verify your teams registrations and payments! 

FLL Challenge?

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FLL Explore?

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Invoices

Invoices for the FIRST Washington FLL Challenge ($350) and FLL Explore ($50) have started to go out.

The first round of FLL Challenge invoices went out on Friday, the first round of FLL Explore invoices should go out this week.

They will be emailed out to the person you listed on your FIRST Washington registration under “person who should receive FIRST Washington invoice”

Invoices are sent out once a week, and payments are updated daily. Check the link above to see your teams status. We have also included the date your invoices were sent- if you are unable to find it and you have a date it was sent, please check any spam or junk folders for an email from ‘accounting@firstwa.org’

Thanks for your patience!

A Reminder From the Finance Department :

Please make sure your team number is clearly included on ALL donations sent on behalf of your team. This includes checks, volunteer matches, and ACH deposits.

If for any reason a team number cannot be included, it’s essential that you communicate directly with the Finance Department to ensure proper allocation.(accounting@firstwa.org)

⚠️ Without a team number, we cannot guarantee that funds will be credited to your team’s booster account.

Thank you for helping us keep everything organized and accurate!

Important Dates & Deadlines

• Open Now – FIRST Washington Registration
• 10/3 – Invoices begin go out
• December 6/7 – First weekend of Qualifiers
• December 13/14 – Second weekend of Qualifiers
• January 24/25 – Semifinals
• February  1st – Western WA State

More From FLL

In this weeks Blog-

Registration info!

Invoices

Event Info

Coaches Chat Recording

Make sure you read the entire blog!

Are you registered?

If you have recently registered with FIRST Inspires (after 9/24) this will not reflect that. FIRST Inspires report we use to verify registration has been down since 9/24. They hope to have it fixed soon! 

FLL Challenge?

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FLL Explore?

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Invoices

Invoices for the FIRST Washington FLL Challenge ($350) and FLL Explore ($50) fees go out in early October. They will be emailed out to the person you listed on your FIRST Washington registration under “person who should receive FIRST Washington invoice”

Thanks for your patience!

Event Info

FLL Challenge- 

Overview-

• Teams are assigned events based on location.
• Once a team has paid their FIRST Washington fee and they have been assigned an event, if they would like to change events there will be an opt out form to fill out to request another event.
• Teams will then be placed on a waitlist and moved into that event after all teams have been placed or after a certain date, whichever comes first, if there is still space.
• If there is not space in the event they chose, they may move back into their original event, space permitting, or be assigned to an event with available space.

Challenge Registration- Details- Make sure you read!

• Teams will no longer be filling out a registration survey- YAY
• Teams will still need to be paid to see their placement- invoices will go out soon to those that filled out the FIRST Washington registration. If you did not fill it out, you will not receive an invoice and will not be placed or able to participate until you do.
• Teams will be assigned a home venue/event that is within 50 miles
• The 50 miles is point to point distance, not driving distance
• This is based on Venue Zipcode and Team Zipcode
• Teams have the ability to opt out of their home event using the opt out form and go on a waitlist. Teams may only ask to opt out by filling out the form- no email communication will be accepted.
• Waitlist teams are not guaranteed a spot in the event they choose, or a spot in the event they opted out of.
• Waitlist teams are placed on a first come first served basis in the event they choose if there is available space, and will be notified after the placement window closes if there is space in the event they chose.
• If there is not space- they can move back to their home event, space permitting, or move into an event with available space, but there is no guarantee an event with available space will be within 50 miles
• Teams requesting to change the day of the week only and not the venue they are competing at will have a seperate form to fill out. Make sure you pay attention to which form you need! 

FLL Explore- 

Overview-

• Teams fill out an event registration form
• You can choose 2 event preferences from a list. Please make sure both locations and dates work for you! 
• Once teams have-
  • Registered with FIRST
  • Registered with FIRST Washington
  • Paid the FIRST Washington invoice ($50)
  • Filled out the event registration
• Teams will be placed in one of their 2 event preferences.
• Events are in December and March, teams may choose 1.

Event Venues

I am still in the process of getting all the event venues secured. As soon as I have a schedule I will get it out to you all! 

FLL Coaches Chat

To view the recording and slides from last weeks coaches chat click here

Important Dates & Deadlines

• Open Now – FIRST Washington Registration
• Early October – Invoices go out
• December 6/7 – First weekend of Qualifiers
• December 13/14 – Second weekend of Qualifiers
• January 24/25 – Semifinals
• February  1st – Western WA State

More From FLL

In this weeks Blog-

Coaches Chat

Invoices

Registration info!

Make sure you read the entire blog!

FLL Coaches Chat

Our first FLL Coaches Chat of the season is tonight at 7pm!

Hope to see you all there!

We will be focusing primarily on FLL Challenge, but will have some Explore info as well!

To view the recording and slides from the coaches chat click here

Are you registered?

FLL Challenge?

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FLL Explore?

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Invoices

Invoices for the FIRST Washington FLL Challenge ($350) and FLL Explore ($50) fees go out in early October.

Thanks for your patience!

Important Dates & Deadlines

• Open Now – FIRST Washington Registration
• September 23rd – Coaches Chat
• September 26th – FIRST Washington Grant closes
• Early October – Invoices go out
• December 6/7 – First weekend of Qualifiers
• December 13/14 – Second weekend of Qualifiers
• January 24/25 – Semifinals
• February  1st – Western WA State

More From FLL

In this weeks Blog-

Coaches Chat

Invoices

Registration info!

Make sure you read the entire blog!

Are you registered?

FLL Challenge?

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FLL Explore?

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Coming Soon!

Invoices

Invoices for the FIRST Washington FLL Challenge ($350) and FLL Explore ($50) fees go out in early October.

Thanks for your patience!

FLL Coaches Chat

Our first FLL Coaches Chat was originally scheduled for this evening. With having been on vacation last week, I am not ready! I am moving it to next Tuesday, September 23rd at 7pm!

Hopefully by then I will also have all the event locations confirmed as well!

Important Dates & Deadlines

• Open Now – FIRST Washington Registration
• September 23rd – Coaches Chat
• September 26th – FIRST Washington Grant closes
• Early October – Invoices go out
• December 6/7 – First weekend of Qualifiers
• December 13/14 – Second weekend of Qualifiers
• January 24/25 – Semifinals
• February  1st – Western WA State

More From FLL