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.