We will not be checking or responding to email during that time.
We will return emails starting January 5th.
Have a wonderful holiday and new year!
If you missed the coaches chat last week, you can find the slide deck and recording here: https://firstwa.org/webinars/
We will not be checking mail, processing payments or responding to email during that time.
We will return emails and process payments starting January 5th.
Have a wonderful holiday and new year!
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!
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!
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.
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!
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.
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!
In this weeks Blog- Event Assignments for FLL Challenge posted with Update FLL Explore Event...
FLL Challenge Event Assignments posted for fully registered teams. FLL Explore event registration.
FLL Challenge teams must be paid/secured by 10/24!
FIRST Washington is seeking the community’s opinion on whether to pursue approval as a Career-Technical Student Organization (CTSO) with the State of Washington and OSPI. If your school and/or team could be affected by this decision, we invite you to spend a few minutes letting us know how you might be impacted. For any questions, please reach out to Alida (alidam@firstwa.org).
https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/7a5a1196d00c45819fdfa2f068014eaa
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.
Did your team explore AI this season? Share your story in a 15–60 second video for the FIRST WA AI Innovation Video Challenge. Top videos will be highlighted across our events and channels. Submit by January 9.
More info here: https://firstwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/AI-Video-Challenge.pdf
We are trying a new format for our Coaches Chat this year. For our December coaches chat, we will have a round table with several coaches (And Stokely) talk about what their team does for kickoff and why it is such an important day (other than for the obvious reason)
To attend this meeting, click here Feel free to forward this link to any adults on your team that you feel need to attend.
WASHINGTON TEAMS ONLY
FIRST Washington is seeking the community’s opinion on whether to pursue approval as a Career-Technical Student Organization (CTSO) with the State of Washington and OSPI. If your school and/or team could be affected by this decision, we invite you to spend a few minutes letting us know how you might be impacted. For any questions, please reach out to Alida (alidam@firstwa.org).
https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/7a5a1196d00c45819fdfa2f068014eaa
Did your team explore AI this season? Share your story in a 15–60 second video for the FIRST WA AI Innovation Video Challenge. Top videos will be highlighted across our events and channels. Submit by January 9.
More info here: https://firstwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/AI-Video-Challenge.pdf
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.