• After School Programs

    These programs are often offered as afterschool or enrichment activities, either within schools or through community organizations. They provide students with opportunities to engage in STEM learning outside of regular classroom hours.

    Feel free to let your enrichment coordinator know if you are interested in having my classes at your school!

  • Summer Camps and Break Camps

    My LEGO® STEM break camps are typically week-long, educational programs that combine the elements of LEGO® building and STEM

    These camps are designed to engage students during school breaks, such as winter break, spring break, Thanksgiving, or summer vacation. Camps are typically 3 hours long with more themed options. Longer class times means more possibilities!

  • Birthday Parties

    How can you celebrate your childs next special day? With LEGO®!

For children in my classes, the benefits of building with LEGO® are:


Role-playing

You might be a child, but right now you’re an engineer who’s building the next big NASA facility. Role playing helps children foster communication and make sense of real-life situations that they could find themselves in. It also helps develop empathy: as you put yourself in a different role, you face the issues that come with it.

Problem-solving

Your imagination is limitless, the number of blocks and the ways they can fit are not!This represents a challenge: either we modify our project, or we try a different piece. This type of problem-solving is almost universal. A project manager may allocate resources differently, an engineer may utilize a different build, or - even - a baseball pitcher may try a different throw. Playing with LEGO reinforces these invaluable problem-solving skills.


Creativity

Part and parcel of what makes LEGO so appealing is that it’s like a sandbox: you’re really only limited by the sand. Building a LEGO project isn’t hard, technically speaking, the blocks click together and you’re done. This causes children to focus on the outcome, as opposed to struggling with the actual technique of connecting or disconnecting the blocks. It’s easier than, say, coding. As a result, the only limit is imagination - and we know full well that kids have a surplus of it. Additionally, since errors are fixable, risks are encouraged.

Some of these kids come up with designs that even I couldn’t think of!




Emotional Development

For a sustained creative endeavor like building a project using LEGO blocks, you need patience and perseverance. Both of these skills can be fostered and are rewarding in the long run.

Fine Motor Skills

As you manipulate the blocks, your fingers move in coordination with your eyes. Small, controlled movements. This is underrated but it’s kind of a big one, I mean, it separates us from some of our clumsier primate cousins. Fine motor skills have a positive correlation with intelligence - developing these is immensely advantageous!


Confidence

Every build is accompanied by a sense of accomplishment that directly fuels your child’s self-esteem. A pile of building blocks is just that: a pile of building blocks. A project built from the same blocks is a testament to patience, focus, and creativity, along with a sustained dedication to a vision - a rightful source of confidence!



I believe that all children are creative - they just conform and suppress their energies as they grow. What better time to utilize a mix of fun and creativity to learn than this?