Robotics

FLL Robotics Competitions

FIRST® LEGO® League introduces science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) to children ages 4-16* through fun, exciting hands-on learning. The program inspires youth to experiment and grow their critical thinking, coding, and design skills through hands-on STEM learning and robotics.

FLL Explorer Team - Ages 6-10, for grade 1-3

Sunshine Circuits FLL Explorer Team, was formed in 2024 and has participated in the FLL Explorer tournament for 2 years. The team won a sustainability award in 2025!

FLL Challenge Team - Ages 9-13, for grade 3-5

Sunshine Circuits started 2 FLL Challenge teams in September, 2023. Below is a summary of Sunshine Circuits FLL Challenge Team Dusk achievements in its rookie's year:

The team got two top awards in the tournament at Intel last December:

1st place in Robot Design Award
1st place in Core Values Award

The team qualified for the Oregon State Championship Competition after a series of tournaments.

Sunshine Elite is organizing the FLL Explorer Team and FLL Challenge Teams for the year of 2025-2026. We will release our FLL Explorer and FLL Challenge Team application on July 1, 2025 for the year of 2025-2026. If you are interested in joining the teams, the best way is to start with our Robotics camps in summer and our robotics coaches will try to pick up the good candidates from the camps for the teams: https://www.sunshineeliteeducation.com/course.php?term=77&filter_title=Robotics

First Tech Challenge FTC Robotics Competition

FIRST is a STEM education program that uses robot challenges to build science and technology skills and interests for youth ages 6 to 18, in a character driven program designed to inspire self-confidence, leadership, and life skills . With support from a bunch of generous Fortune 500 corporations, educational and professional institutions, foundations, and individuals, FIRST provides more than $22 million in college scholarships to high school kids in the program, and serves over 400,000 students in 80 countries. The suite of programs includes FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC® ) for students in Grades 9-12; FIRST® Tech Challenge (FTC® ) for Grades 7-12; FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL® ) for Grades 4-8; and Junior FIRST® LEGO®League (Jr.FLL®) for Grades K-3.

FIRST Tech Challenge students learn to think like engineers. Teams design, build, and code robots to compete in an alliance format against other teams. Robots are built from a reusable platform, powered by Android technology, and can be coded using a variety of levels of Java-based programming. FTC isn’t just about robots, outreach is also a big part of the program! The point of outreach is to help get others interested and excited about STEM, it also creates the beginning of a network that can lead to a career in a STEM field.

Sunshine Circuits FTC team #23735 started its rookie's year in September, 2023. Below is a summary of Sunshine Circuits FTC team #23735 achievements in the first year:

Congratulations to the rookie year of the team!