New Mexico FIRST® LEGO® League
FIRST® LEGO® League Challenge
formerly FIRST® LEGO® League


FIRST LEGO League Challenge is the oldest of three divisions of FIRST LEGO League, 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
  • 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 ($225)  FIRST Registration 
Purchace the Challenge Set ($75 - use Dashboard link)
Purchase a Spike Prime Robot Kit ($410 - use Dashboard link)
OR
Purchase an EV3 Robot Kit ($535 - use Dashboard link)
OR
Use an older NXT Robot Kit

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

For New Mexico FLL information contact  chair@nmfll.org

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Team Information

Registration is open
May 1 2020 - June 30 2021

To Register a Team --
Team Member Registration

Instructions for Coaches
Consent and Release form
Team Competition Packet
tba
Coaching Resources
RePlay Challenge

Includes: Challenge Overview - Challenge Updates - Build Instructions - Kickoff Video - Robot Game Missions Video - Participation Rules - Robot Game Rulebook - Rubrics - Robot Game Scoresheet - Judging Session Flowchart - Awards List -Coach/Mentor Award Nomination Form