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Bricks 4 Kidz LEGO® After School Program

Kids spend their young years playing with LEGO® Bricks, stacking the blocks together to create an immersive world. Bricks 4 Kidz takes this one step further with our LEGO®-Inspired After School Program.

These classes deliver play that's fun, educational and enriching for each child. We follow a six-week theme with guided instructions for kids to build a project, connect it to a motor and battery and watch their vision come to life. What better way to give kids hands-on fun while they learn practical ways to apply STEM concepts?

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Learn Together

Fun is always part of the equation, and we're here to learn from our play, too. Bricks 4 Kidz has a team of teachers who are fully vetted and trained to lead discussions and teach STEM concepts. Kids can learn about the practical basics of torque and friction or the fascinating world of space exploration and movie-making.

Build Together

We believe there's immeasurable value in seeing your imagination come to life in front of you. Kids get this experience alongside their peers as they team up to create something from concept to completion. This collaborative experience teaches the value of teamwork, communication and problem-solving.

Play Together

In the spirit of our motto - We Learn, We Build, We Play - our after school classes end with free-play time. After a structured lesson and teamwork exercises, this time gives kids a chance to stretch their creative muscles and turn a pile of LEGO® Bricks and motors into whatever design they can imagine.

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Benefits of a LEGO®-Based After School Program

A STEM-focused after school program gives students the opportunity to combine scientific discovery and team building in a fun, no-pressure environment. By using LEGO® Bricks and robotics as the conduit for learning, kids can explore concepts with a hands-on approach, rather than simply reading a textbook.

Benefits of our LEGO®-based education after school programs include:

  • Applied STEM concepts: Kids apply what they're learning in school to create their own tangible models. This brings classroom learning to life.
  • See the world in new ways: Kids watch the concepts of torque and friction playing out in real-time, and begin to understand the push and pull of how things work.
  • Grow in self-confidence: Our programs encourage students to try new things and apply complex concepts to the LEGO® Bricks in front of them. Accomplishing their goals and figuring out how to solve problems leads to a boost in self-esteem.
  • Build teamwork skills: All projects are completed with a partner! This gives kids the chance to communicate clearly, ask for help and learn the dynamics of teamwork and sharing.
  • Imagine bigger: From model building to free-play time, kids are encouraged to dream, create, design and imagine anything they want. A pile of LEGO® Bricks can become anything if kids put their mind to it!
  • Play in a safe environment: Our staff is trained and experienced in LEGO® education. They also help facilitate a stress-free and positive dynamic for kids.

Check out a few of our themed units...

Energy Is Everywhere

Energy is essential to almost everything we do, from the lights in our homes and classrooms to the gasoline that fuels our cars. Introduce your students to the world of energy in all its amazing forms. This unit explores many sources of energy from wind and solar power to biofuel and fossil fuel. Students will define terms like renewable, landfill, greenhouse effect and generator and build moving models of just some of the awesome ways we power our world.

Laws of Motion

Introduce kids to physics, including the “Laws of Motion” made famous by Sir Isaac Newton. By explaining terms like inertia and mass using simple words, Bricks 4 Kidz®  lessons give students a foundation for understanding concepts that they will delve deeper into in years to come. For now, they get to build fun stuff out of LEGO® Bricks   and create a positive association that science is fun! During this unit, kids will launch paper footballs at targets with the catapult model, give their mini-figures a ride on motorized see-saw and swing-o-rama rides, and practice telling time as they build the clock model. At Bricks 4 Kidz®, we know how to keep their hands and their minds busy! Who says physics is boring? Test out some of Sir Isaac Newton’s Laws of motion with models that illustrate the concepts of inertia, force, mass, acceleration, and the observation that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. What will your reaction be to our Bricks 4 Kidz® action-packed after school class? We doubt you’ll “stay at rest” with these challenging projects designed to accelerate the learning with the force of fun!

Coding

Bring LEGO® Bricks to life with coding! The ability to code is a key component of technology education today. Our coding programs will teach students important strategies to enhance their logic and problem-solving skills, as well as help them work toward becoming technological innovators of tomorrow. Our programs offer skill level progression of coding concepts as students advance through multiple levels from beginner through advanced. Students will build models with LEGO® Education's WeDo or EV3 elements, then control their models with the codes they write.

Please use the coding logo above (with the “Learn. Build. Code.” tagline) when you are marketing a coding program that involves building. These classes require either WeDo or EV3 Mindstorms® hardware (building elements). Integrating Scratch with WeDo and EV3 allows students to see and interact with cause and effect on a digital level.

Architecture 101

If you’ve ever gazed up at a skyscraper and wondered how these towering structures stay upright, or driven across a bridge and marveled at the engineering required to hold the weight of so many vehicles, or asked yourself “why does the Leaning Tower of Pisa lean?” then you’ll love this unit. We’ll explore the architecture and engineering fundamentals behind some well- known structures such as Dubai’s Burj Khalifa tower and San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. Put your building skills to the test as we transform common LEGO® Bricks into architectural wonders. Maybe you’ll be inspired to design your own amazing buildings!

Air, Land & Sea

Step aboard to build some exciting ways to get from here to there. Take to the sky in our Bricks 4 Kidz® helicopter model, race across the beach in an ingenious land sail, or zoom through the water on a jet ski. Kids will learn what makes each machine unique and how it moves, exploring concepts such as buoyancy, propulsion, lift and g-forces! What other ways will you invent to travel through air, land and sea? Whether you’re a high-speed thrill-seeker or just curious about how things work, this unit offers something for everyone.

Amazing Animals

It’s a zoo in here!  This is a unit sure to delight kids who love creatures.  We’ll be building models of snakes, insects, mammals and more. Each week we’ll discuss fascinating facts about the animals we build, from the chameleon that changes colors to the seal model that waddles across the table. Students will love these moving models that celebrate the wonders of the animal kingdom.

World of Science

Calling all future scientists! Come learn, build and experiment with us! Our budding astronomers, meteorologists, zoologists, and inventors will learn about space, weather, animals, and more! We’ll build all sorts of awesome scientific models and gadgets that are sure to spark both imagination and intellect. If you just can’t get enough of hands-on science fun, then you won’t want to miss out on our World of Science unit!

Construction Craze

Put on your hard hat and head on over to our construction site! Make your own motorized models of tools of the trade from a hand-held power drill and power saw to a tough, all-terrain bulldozer and giant dump truck. Would you be surprised to learn that one of these objects has a history stretching from the Stone Age to the Space Age? And who thought of making a saw blade in the shape of a circle?  Where does the word bulldozer come from?  How big is the biggest dump truck? Build your knowledge of construction at Bricks 4 Kidz®! Dump trucks, jackhammers, drills, power saws… build motorized models of these and other powerful tools and create your own LEGO® construction site. Join us for lots of high-impact learning and fun!

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