New Mexico FIRST^®LEGO^®League

2026-2027 Update

All New Mexico FIRST LEGO League events for the 2026-2027 season will be Founders Edition (using Spike Prime, EV3, NXT, Spike Essentials or WeDo)

Please register your teams as Founders Edition if you wish to participate in these events

FIRST^® LEGO^® League Challenge

FIRST LEGO League Challenge was created to inspire youth to experiment and grow their critical thinking, coding, and design skills through fun hands-on STEM learning and robotics.

Teams in grades 4-8 (ages 9-14)

engage in research, problem-solving, coding, and engineering
build and program a LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime or LEGO MINDSTORMS® robot
conduct a research project to identify and solve a relevant real-world problem related to the annual theme
are guided by FIRST Core Values

How to Participate in Challenge

Form Your Team of 2-10 students (NM FLL & FIRST do not match children with existing teams)

Register your team with FIRST Team Registration System ($275) FIRST Registration
Purchace the Challenge Set ($95 - use Dashboard link)
Purchase a SPIKE Prime Robot Kit ($556.90 - use Dashboard link)

OR
Use an EV3 Robot Kit
OR
Use an NXT Robot Kit

Participate in an official event (see the Qualifiers & Championship pages for New Mexico FLL Tournament information)
Team Participation Rules -- participation rules

Teams coordinator teams@nmfll.org