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What is BrickCoLab

We have lots of LEGO® bricks!

BrickCoLab is a collection of services that use LEGO® bricks to create engaging activities to promote community, communication, and critical thinking.

We can custom design an activity for your students or adapt one of the existing activities below.

LEGO Closet

BrickCoLab Classroom Activities

Our activities are designed to integrate directly into your classroom. Work with us to schedule a session and choose an experience that best fits your learning objectives.

LEGO Room

Ice Breakers

A series of team-building activities designed for early-semester engagement and group formation.

Building Competitions

Students are placed in groups, given a bin of LEGO® bricks, and a challenge. Results are showcased and voted on to determine a winning team. Past challenges include building the tallest freestanding structure and creating the best artistic design.

A communication-focused activity where students are split into groups. One group receives instructions for a small LEGO® kit, while the other receives only the bricks. Using verbal or limited communication methods, they must work together to complete the build. Results are often both impressive and entertaining.

Warning: competitions can get surprisingly competitive!

Hackathons

Hackathons are typically run as 2–5 hour sessions or full-day events and can be customized to align with your course content.

Build a Solution

A custom-designed challenge where students are given a problem and must construct a solution using LEGO® bricks. Examples include designing a library of the future, building a control panel, or exploring solutions to real-world issues like poverty.

Build & Code Race

Students are given a remote-controlled LEGO® car, an Xbox controller, and a section of racetrack. They can modify both the car and track using LEGO® bricks and improve performance through code optimization. The activity concludes with a series of races.

Build, Code, Race

Introduction to Code

An introductory coding session where students learn using Scratch or Python. Participants build and program simple LEGO® devices such as parking gates, remote-controlled cars, or interactive puzzles.

Brain Teasers

Short, 15-minute activities that are perfect for starting a class:

Cube Puzzle
Tower Puzzle
Tetris Puzzle
Build a Duck

Three C's Tetris Puzzle Towers

LEGO® Escape Room

Lystex is a LEGO®-based escape room set on an alien planet. Participants must use an Xbox controller to navigate a Mars rover back to the command centre before the planet explodes.

Lystex

Explore more details on each activity on the Activities page.

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