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!
