Start a team

The grade levels are provided as an approximate bracket for the age groups.

• FIRST LEGO League Discover: Ages 4-6 or grades PreK-1st
• FIRST LEGO League Explore: Ages 6-10 or grades 2nd-4th
• FIRST LEGO League Challenge: Ages 9-14 or grades 4th-8th

When registering a team, please note that there are two necessary steps: registering with FIRST and registering with Arizona FIRST LEGO League, which includes your tournament fee.

Registering with FIRST

To register your team with FIRST and compete this season, you will need to have two coaches with completed background checks and each participant must have a consent and release form signed by their parent or guardian. On the FIRST Dashboard, there will be options for completing your background registration free-of-charge through a third party. After submitting, it takes approximately two days for this to update on your dashboard. Once this is complete, you will be able to send requests to parents and guardians to complete their student’s consent and release forms. For more information on this process, please see the FIRST website.

Registering with Arizona FIRST LEGO League

In order to officially participate and compete as a FIRST® Lego® League team, be sure to pay both your FIRST® and Arizona FIRST® Lego® League fees.

• Payments to FIRST® are made payable to FIRST, not Arizona State University.
• Qualifying tournament fees are paid for through ASU’s Aventri account. ASU accepts both credit cards and check. If you are paying with check, please have the check addressed to Arizona State University and mailed to the address below.

Arizona State University
Fulton Outreach and Recruitment
Engineering G-Wing Room 252
P.O. Box 875506
Tempe, AZ 85287-5506

Several items are also required for competition:

• LEGO® EV3 or SPIKE Prime Robot Kit, which can be purchased at any time and is reused from season-to-season. You will notice, however, that there are several options for the robot: the LEGO MINDSTORM EV3 Education Set, MINDSTORM Retail Set, and SPIKE Prime set. Any of these versions are acceptable to compete with; however, the EV3 education set with comes equipped with additional software and sensors that the retail set does not have. You are able to add those items separately at a later date if you choose to start with the retail version. Please visit the LEGO website for information about purchasing a kit.
• Challenge Kit, which includes the season’s challenge materials. The challenge kit is NOT included in your season registration fees.