Following a return to an in-person State Tournament for the 2021-22 FLL Challenge season, Hawaii FIRST Robotics will announce this year’s winners at a virtual Awards Ceremony on March 5, 2022 starting at 9:00 am Hawaii Time.
Hawaii FIRST Robotics Announces FLL Explore Awards
This year teams across Hawaii participated in a largely virtual season. The 2020-21 FLL Explore theme, PLAYMAKERS, challenged teams to think of new ways to play and move, while applying FIRST Core Values to create a team model. Hawaii FIRST Robotics held a FLL Explore PLAYMAKERS Expo, and here are the FLL Explore Expo Awards for the 2020-2021 season!
Challenge Solution Award: HMS Dolphins (Team 1675)
Core Values Award: The Troublemakers (Team 23632)
Team Model Award: Ripstick Replayers (Team 21597)
Team Model Award: HCAP Revolutionary Warriors (Team 19432)
Congratulations to all the coaches and students who participated during this challenging season! See you next year!
Hawaii FIRST Robotics Announces FLL CHallenge Awards
This year teams across Hawaii participated in a largely virtual season. The 2020-21 FLL Challenge theme, RePLAY, challenged teams to think of new ways to play and move. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, 18 teams signed up to participate this year. Each team used the FIRST Core Values to design a robot to complete missions, and develop an innovation project that identified and solved a problem for the community. Each team presented its project to judges and competed in the robot game.
On March 6, 2021, Hawaii FIRST Robotics held a virtual awards ceremony to announce this year’s awardees.
Coach’s Award: Spencer Williams, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol: Bill and the Ciphers, Independent Team (Team 39908)
Robot Performance: Tech Squad, Independent Team (Team 51535)
Robot Design : Robo-Rangers, Boys & Girls Club of Hawaii (Team 51507)
Innovation Project: Honubots, Kailua Elementary School (Team 16871)
Core Values: P.L.A.E., Holomua Elementary School (Team 2365)
Champion’s Runner-Up: Fast Fooders, Independent Team (Team 51563)
Champion’s 1st Place: HMS Robotics, Hongwanji Mission School (Team 6898)
HMS Robotics will represent the Hawaii Region at the FIRST World Festival in July.
Congratulations to all the coaches and students who participated during this challenging season! See you next year!
Team Grant Awardees announced for the 2020-21 Game Changers Season!
Hawaiian Electric (@hawaiianelectric) and Hawai`i FIRST Robotics are excited to announce the recipients of the 2020-2021 Game Changers Season Team Grant to support both returning and new First Lego League Challenge and Explore teams with national registration and equipment. We are so very proud of all our teams persevering and working hard to invent a whole new way to do robotics. Congratulations to the following teams:
| FLL Challenge: Holomua 1- Team 2364 from Holomua Elementary School |
| FLL Challenge: Holomua 2- Team 2365 from Holomua Elementary School |
| FLL Challenge: Holomua 3- Team 2366 from Holomua Elementary School |
| FLL Challenge: Holomua 4- Team 2367 from Holomua elementary School |
| FLL Challenge: Knights- Team 2585 from Saint Joseph Parish School |
| FLL Challenge: All Stars- Team 3523 from Mililani Middle School |
| FLL Challenge: Bright Bodacious Blazers- Team 3524 from Mililani Middle School |
| FLL Challenge: HMS Robotics- Team 6898 from Hongwanji Mission School |
| FLL Challenge: The Honubots- Team 16871 from Kailua Elementary School |
| FLL Challenge: Waiheʻe Robo Warriors- Team 28108 from Waiheʻe Elementary School |
| FLL Challenge: Guardians of the Galaxy- Team 39908 a Home School Group |
| FLL Challenge: Palamatrons- Team 45134 from Honolulu Community Action Program, Inc. |
| FLL Challenge: Alaka’i O Hunua- Team 50055 from NSBE JR |
| FLL Challenge: Robogirls- Team 50889 |
| FLL Challenge: Seahorse Robotics- Team 51065 from Waianae Elementary |
| FLL Challenge: Robo-Rangers- Team 51507 from O-Bots Foundation |
| FLL Challenge: Tech Squad- Team 51535 |
| FLL Challenge: Earl’s Team- Team 51563 |
| FLL Challenge: SAS WARRI0RS- Team 51700 from St Anthony’s School Kailua |
| FLL Challenge: Warwick- Team 51701 from BSA Pack 388 |
| FLL Explore: HMS Dolphins 1- Team 1675 from Hongwanji Mission School |
| FLL Explore: Kipapa Cougar Cubs 2- Team 7789 from Kipapa Elementary |
| FLL Explore: Palamatrons- Team 19432 from Honolulu Community Action Program, Inc. |
| FLL Explore: Delightful Dragon Unicorn Friends – Team 19470 |
| FLL Explore: Block Rockers- Team 19651 from St Catherine’s School |
| FLL Explore: Warwick- Team 21597 from BSA Pack 388 |
| FLL Explore: Akamai Keiki- Team 22260 from NSBE JR |
| FLL Explore: Wili Wili 1- Team 23585 |
| FLL Explore: Robo Saints A – Team 23688 from Saint Patrick School |
| FLL Explore: Robo Saints B- Team 23689 from Saint Patrick School |
| FLL Explore: 3 Sargent Boys- Team 23826 a Home School Group |
Grant Opportunity for FIRST LEGO League Explore and Challenge teams (Now closed)
(Now Closed)
Aloha! We have an amazing grant opportunity to share with you. All new and returning Hawai`i FIRST LEGO League Explore and Challenge teams are eligible for a generous grant from Hawaiian Electric (O’ahu, Maui County, and Hawai’i Island) as well as Hawai`i FIRST Robotics (Kauai). We have the following grants available to reimburse teams in part for registration, equipment, and kits:
FLL Explore Teams (grades 2-4, formerly known as FLL Jr.)
Returning Teams $100
New Teams $300
FLL Challenge Teams (grades 4-8, formerly known as FLL)
Returning Teams $300
New Teams $500
Fill out the Google Form below to apply for the grant. If you have trouble viewing the application form, you may access the application through this link: https://forms.gle/yeJic9vDS2qZALJH7
Funding is limited so please submit your applications as soon as possible! Deadline – November 6, 2020 @ 11:59 pm HST or until funds run out.
FLL Explore (FORMERLY FLL jr.) Update
Aloha!
Whether you are stoked, hopeful, or curious about the upcoming FLL Explore “Playmakers” season, we wanted to share information to help you and your teams navigate these challenging conditions. We are sending this email to everyone on last season’s mailing list in case you are still considering a Jr. team this season and in case any information here can help you with your remote learning plans. Future eblasts for this season will be sent to coaches with a registered 2020-2021 FLL Explore team or anyone who responds to our survey. Since there is so much information in this email, we created a Google site with virtual classrooms for you to explore with the following links.
You can access our 2020 Google site here:https://sites.google.com/view/hawaii-fll-explore-2020/home
Coaches’ Room
- **FLL Guide for COVID Interruptions: helpful guide for FLL meetings and implementing other remote learning**
- FIRST @ Home: remote STEM activities & projects
- LEGO Ed: education plans
- Star Wars Force for Change landing page
- **FIRST Mentor Network: NEW interactive platform that helps teams and mentors find each other**
Teacher’s Room
- FIRST Curriculum for Educators: national standards alignment and curriculum information
- FIRST Professional Development: register for professional development classes
- QR Code for FIRST Educators landing page
FIRST Room
- FLL Explore Kick Off Video
- FLL Discover Kick Off Video
- PLAYMAKERS Challenge and Season landing page
- FLL Explore Class Pack information
- FLL Discovery Class and School Pack Information
Virtual Events Room (coming later this season)
- Hawaii FLL Explore Kick Off: Saturday, 11/14/20
- Hawaii FLL Explore Expo: Saturday, 3/6/21 (additional dates may be added if needed)
- Please note that these dates are tentative as we are coordinating with other FIRST program levels, but our current plan is to have a virtual Kick Off in November 2020 and virtual Expo in March 2021.
If you would like remain on our mailing list, please be sure to respond to our HFR Explore survey which will remain open for a couple more weeks here:
https://forms.gle/P7J5nYiGKLnzxWe68
Thank you again for all your dedication to our youngest FIRST participants in Hawaii!
