Seven innovative John Wollaston students have earnt themselves a place at the 2025 First Lego League World Championships in Houston, Texas, in April this year. The John Wollaston Team is made up of Year 12 student, Cheria, along with Year 10 students: Oviya, Alexis, Charles, Tom, Brandon and Mulder.
First Lego League (FLL) is an international robotics competition where teams engage in research, problem-solving, coding and engineering as they build and program a LEGO robot that navigates the missions of a robot game. It is part of the international For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST®) movement. With approximately 50,000 attendees from more than 80 countries, the World Championship, in Houston, is an international youth robotics competition and an annual celebration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
Three John Wollaston teams competed at the FLL National Championship West at Curtin University in December, 2024, and all achieved truly extraordinary results, including:
• JWACS Year 7 team winning the Robot Game and the Engineering Excellence Award
• JWACS Year 10 team for winning the Breakthrough Award.
• Team Narwhal – Overall winners
John Wollaston Principal, Tim Russell: “We are incredibly proud of our Science program at John Wollaston. Our students have some wonderful opportunities to engage and learn within our excellent facilities, which are enhanced by industry-leading teaching staff and supported through a variety of curricular and cocurricular programs. Our whole community is behind the JWACS FLL Team, we congratulate these seven remarkable students, and their dedicated teachers, for an extraordinary effort in making it to the FIRST World Lego Championships, representing both Australia and John Wollaston Anglican Community School!”
John Wollaston STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) teachers, Mrs Chrisna LeVaillant and Mr Stephen Fox, said they are so proud of the students’ dedication, with many hours spent team-building, robot-building, coding and researching their projects. Mr Fox: “I would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to our Lego Robotics team The Narwhals who have been selected to represent Australia at the FIRST World Lego Championships in Houston in April. They achieved this feat by demonstrating wonderful core values of teamwork, inclusion and innovation, as well as outstanding planning, design and programming skills. At the World Championships they will compete with students across the four domains of Gracious Professionalism, Innovation, Robot design and Robot game. As a community, we wish them every success and support in their endeavours.”
John Wollaston student, Cheria LeVaillant (Year 12), said FLL is so much more than just robotics and LEGO: ‘”FLL is s a fantastic opportunity to express yourself and to learn new things in a safe, FUN place, with others who are just as curious and creative as you are. FLL allows you to challenge yourself, persevere, turn your ideas into reality, work with others and continuously improve with each competition.”
Please support our students as they fundraise for their upcoming adventure!
- Come along to our fundraising Parents Bingo Night on Friday 21 March (booking information to follow).
- Containers for Change – provide the team’s unique member number C11547574 at a refund point when returning your containers.
- Follow along with the JWACS team’s progress on our social media.
View the Sponsorship package here.
For sponsorship or media enquiries please contact:
Pia Kelly
Community Engagement and Marketing Manager
John Wollaston Anglican Community School
