ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) — The results are in for the annual New Mexico Electric Car Challenge that happened on Saturday.

A total of 50 teams from 21 schools joined in on the competition sponsored by Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories.


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The car had to travel the fastest while carrying a payload the size of a container of table salt, but success for many of the teams didn’t come without some failures.

A team from Roosevelt Middle School took home the first-place prize, which was a $350 classroom exploration package from Explora.