All of our upcoming qualifiers are open to the public – you are welcome to stop by.  I would recommend prioritizing going to a High School as generally they will have more space for audience to sit, etc.  I would also recommend stopping by after 9:30am or so  (and not over noon lunch break) and before 4:00pm if you want to catch teams planning the Robot Game and talk to them in their pits about their Innovation Project, ask about their robot, and their team experience!

Upcoming Events Calendar

We are still looking for additional Spring League tournament hosts and organizers!   If you know of an affordable (ie no rent) place that can support 12 or more teams, please let us know.  More info about how to organizer a tournament.

We do have a physical location in San Jose – so events can happen there but for those teams particularly in SF, Sac, East Bay – we need your help to find hosts and organizers!

If you have not been following along with the Google Group messages,  NorCal FIRST LEGO League Challenge Qualifier Tournament preference selection is open in mylumi . Deadline to complete is October 4th.

In the SUBMERGED℠ challenge, FIRST LEGO League teams will use creative thinking and LEGO® technology to explore the layers of the ocean and bring their learnings and ideas to the surface as they “sea” into the future.

National Team registration via firstinspires.org dashboard opens May 14, 2024

Season Details available August 6, 2024

NorCal Regional event registration is expected to open ~September 2024

Join NorCal FLL Challenge googlegroup to be informed about all local news including important dates and deadlines!
[and make sure to update your Membership settings to receive email – default is no]

The final NorCal FIRST LEGO League Challenge championship is running now!
You can join us at Palo Alto HS – we are in the main gym (Peery Center)
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Campus Map

Our livestream is now live – check out on the Playing At Learning org’s YouTube channel

mylumi has schedule, live scores and more

March 17 FIRST LEGO League Challenge Championship is now live and streaming  – check it out on our YouTube channel

Schedule of teams & Scores are available  on mylumi.playingatlearning.org 

More about the Championship and the FIRST LEGO League Challenge program is available on the visitor page on the championship website.

And we are live….

We are excited to announce that Playing at Learning is shifting to a new Team, Volunteer and Event management system called Lumieos for the FIRST LEGO League Challenge program. The NorCal instance will be called MyLumi.

Lumineos will serve as an online system for teams to complete their local event registration, payments as well as receive their team’s event results including their team rubrics.

Please note the following:

• Due to limitations from FIRST, staff must manually sync information from FIRST to pull information from the FIRST database as previously.

• Each coach will receive an invite email from the Lumieos system with instructions on how to create an account.

• Importantly, Lumieos cannot edit any information in the FIRST national system such as team name, team city, roster and coach information. Changes will need to be made directly on the FIRST team dashboard.

This system has been created and refined over multiple years by the Central Valley Robotics (CVR) team. That said, this is the first instance of using the system outside of that region and there may be some pages/emails that have the CVR or MyCVR branding. If you see this, please let us know so that we can work with the developer team to fix it.

One important change that we are likely to also implement is a preferences-based registration process.  More details will be coming but the biggest difference will be that teams will select which events they can attend ahead of time and then the system will assign teams to the best event choice that has space (in a random order).  Importantly, this is not a first come-first served system (which has been the registration process that we have had in place since 2004). All NorCal FLL- Challenge qualifiers will take place during the first three weekends in November, exact dates and locations will be shared as soon as we have venues confirmed. Stay tuned.

We believe that this will be a better experience for our teams, volunteers, event hosts, and staff, and welcome your feedback along the way.

This season, we’re stepping into the world of ART in STEM – STEAM!  In this “FIRST IN SHOW” season presented by Qualcomm ,  FIRST LEGO League students will imagine and innovate new ways to create and communicate art across the globe and we will celebrate the roles our STEM skills play in the arts and design and build a world of endless possibilities.

Official Challenge Details Page 

Unofficial Worksheets and Helpful Tips from FLL Challenge Share and Learn facebook group

Unofficial Robot Game Setup video

Getting Started  as a coach in FLL Challenge (NorCal specific)