Today NorCal is hosting a FIRST LEGO League Challenge Innovation Expo for our teams as a showcase for their innovative Projects that were developed as part of their SuperPowered Season.  We will have 26 teams presenting today.

March 19th 9am-12pm, 1pm-4pm, 4-6pm (all times Pacific Time Zone)

Each session has its own stream/webinar link.

• 9am-12pm Morning: https://tinyurl.com/mar19-morn-web
• 1pm-4pm Afternoon: https://tinyurl.com/mar19-noon-web
• 4pm-6pm Evening: https://tinyurl.com/mar19-eve-web

Along with questions that you can ask in the online webinar, you can provide feedback to the team via the Googleform at https://tinyurl.com/norcal-mar19-feedback

We will summarize this feedback to the team and reserve the right to edit or delete your feedback if it is not appropriate.

We are thrilled to announce that the NorCal FLL Challenge will be represented by the following teams:

Congratulations!!!

Unfortunately we are not able to get enough bandwith in the Gym to stream today – if we can find an alternative network source, we will update here….   otherwise, we have plenty of audience space and you are welcome to join us at Palo Alto HS Main Gym.     Maps and schedules on the championship.norcalfll.org site

Teams competing in November:

Did you see that there are scrimmages posted in the social.norcalfll.org Local Events. If you are planning a scrimmage in your area, please do share and post to the community site.

Need help organizing a scrimmage?   We have documented some best practices here.  Why attend a scrimmage?  We have documented the Value gained from attending a scrimmage here.  Also practice your FIRST Core Values and GP and only sign up for 1 scrimmage.  We have hundreds of teams, so your team attending more than 1 will likely take a slot from a different team being able to attend at all…

Finally did you see the Challenge update posted yesterday on the FIRST LEGO League Challenge Season Materials site?  Make sure someone with your team (coach, mentor, team member) is paying attention to those updates!

As announced the Competitive League event registration is now closed and team lists will be sent over to the Tournament Directors shortly.  Planning for a great experience for teams and volunteers is well underway!

For our remaining teams,  we have our Recreational League events coming soon  – yes, same tournament format, same judging, same game play.  The only differences are extra team meeting time as the events are in April/May, there is no  Championship  advancement  and little/no focus on competition but instead on having fun and learning!   Every team will receive a participation trophy as well!  Event details and the pre-req  (jotform, payment) will be available starting in December.

Finally, if you want to visit one of the Competitive League events,  please make sure to note the Visitor policy that will be  up to date on our tournament list.   It is fun to watch the Robot Games and talk to the teams in their pit area.  Note that Judging is closed to the public – only the team and the judges will be allowed in.

UPDATE: Event registration will open on October 6 at 7:30pm instead of September 29th as noted below.

Our Competitive League season is scheduled to take place in November, and our Recreational League season in early spring. 
Dates and information will be released in the next several days. 
Please refer to the descriptions below to learn more about each league.