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.
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)
Team 45029 Mind Bloomers
During this Volunteer Appreciation Month, we want to take a moment to thank all the NorCal volunteers for their time and energy in helping the NorCal FLL Challenge program as well as our teams succeed during the 2022-2023 SuperPowered season. We invite you to view this special tribute to all of our incredible volunteers as a way of saying thank you. A special shout out to Romie Shield and Roland Jones, whom we have selected as NorCal Volunteers of the Year for their continuous dedication and commitment to the NorCal FLL Challenge community.