FIRST LEGO League – Challenge

2024-25 – Submerged

last updated on December 12, 2024 (qualifiers, championship size, letter to coaches, FLL judging slide show, judge training)

previous updates on Sep 4, Oct 4, Oct 29, Nov 11, Nov 15, 2024

Who can participate?

Members of FIRST LEGO League Challenge teams in BC and the Yukon can’t be older than 14 years on January 1st of the year when the challenge details are announced.
In other words, anyone who is 14 years old on January 1, 2024, can be on a FIRST LEGO League Challenge team in BC and the Yukon for the Submerged season – even if they turn 15 on January 2.
Exceptions can be made in special cases; please contact uleslie@firstpartners.org for this.
The lower age limit is flexible. FIRST recommends that teams members should be at least 9 years old. If you want to register a younger child please contact uleslie@firstpartners.org.

Team registration with FIRST

Any team from BC or the Yukon should register and compete in the “BC region”.
Registration will be open “all year”.
If your team wants to attend a qualifier and you have not registered your team with FIRST yet, please contact uleslie@firstpartner.org to find out if there is space at a tournament.

Coach and team member online sign-up

Each team needs two coaches with their YPP screening done and the FIRST consent and release form signed.
Also, please make sure that the parents/guardians of your team members get their FIRST accounts and sign up their kids for the team.
It sometimes takes a while before all adults do this, so it is a good idea to start early.
FIRST has made the sign-up much easier with the express enrollment, where the coach sends a direct link!
How to sign up
If things don’t seem to work on the FIRST website, call FIRST at 1-800-871-8326 or at 1-603-666-3906 for help.

Volunteers

We always need lots of volunteers at events. Please encourage family and friends of your teams to sign up as volunteers! To do this, they need to set up an account with FIRST (just like the team parents/guardians) and then go to the “volunteer registration” tab on their dashboard and select the event of their choice.
Here is the “volunteer starting page”.
It is helpful if volunteers sign up early since that will give them more time to do any necessary screening or training.
If you are a coach, consider volunteering as a judge at some tournament where your team is not participating – it is really helpful to experience how judging works.
If you have questions about volunteering, please contact Uschi at uleslie@firstpartners.org

Scrimmages

Several scrimmages are planned; please watch for announcements by email and under “events” on this website.

Qualifying tournaments

Qualifying tournaments are planned as follows:
- Northern BC: January 11 2025 at Mount Elizabeth Secondary School, Kitimat
- Victoria: January 12 2025 at University of Victoria, ECS Building
- Whitehorse: January 18 2025 at CSSC Mercier
- Lower Mainland 1: January 19 2025 at L.A. Matheson Secondary School
- Lower Mainland 2: February 1 2025 at Grandview Heights Secondary School
- Kelowna: February 8 2025 at TBA
If your team is located very far away from any qualifier, we will work out an individual solution.
Here you can see a list of the teams competing at each qualifier.

Qualifying tournament registration

We had a registration period of one month, from October 30 at 10 am to November 27 at 11 pm.

Payment for tournament registration