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 students in grades 4-8 apply STEM skills to friendly competition, engaging in research, problem-solving, coding, and engineering. They program a LEGO^® Education SPIKE™ Prime or LEGO MINDSTORMS^®robot to complete seasonal games and challenges in addition to researching, identifying, and solving a real-world problem relevant to the current theme.

Teams in grades 4-8

research, problem-solve, and code using an Engineering Design Process
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 FIRST Registration

Purchace the Challenge Set (use Dashboard link)
Use a SPIKE Prime Robot Kit (only available from LEGO untill June 30, 2026)

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

NM FLL will help rookie teams in accessing robot kits - email chair@nmfll.org

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