Arlington Community Education

Using LEGO, explore real-world concepts in physics, engineering, and architecture while building your favorite Minecraft mods, tools, and objects. Build an Iron Golem, the Nether Portal, the Ender Dragon, and more.

Let your imagination run wild. Build projects such as trains, helicopters, and treehouses with thousands of LEGO. From building robots and engineering structures to creating simple machines and conducting experiments, this class will inspire you to look at LEGOs in a whole different way.

Get your gears turning in this creative class where you’ll be challenged to turn simple mechanisms into complex creations. Transform a lever into an elastic catapult, use gears to engineer a belt-driven gondola, and more. Collaborate with classmates or work towards a personal best as we apply real-world concepts to LEGO challenges.

Buckle up for an epic adventure as you explore the world of vehicles with tens of thousands of LEGO parts. Build and design fast, furious, and fantastic machines that race across land, sail on water, and soar through the skies. Learn about the engineering and design principles behind motors and gears as you take your creativity for a spin.

Master your engineering skills and explore architecture using tens of thousands of LEGO parts. Design and build as never before, and explore your craziest ideas in a supportive environment. Build structures like tunnel boring machines, stilt houses, and teacup rides, or construct elaborate houseboats, heavy-duty forklifts, and Big Ben clock towers.You can sign up for one week or more—we’ll focus on different projects each time.

Build and program robots while developing basic programming, problem solving, and teamwork skills. Grades 3-5: Learn basic programming skills and use motors, sensors, and lights to build a variety of different robots in this introductory robotics class. Grades 6-8: Learn about mechanical and software design, loops, and conditional statements as you design and construct a robot that can avoid obstacles, pick up and carry objects, and play sounds.

Calling all Pokémon trainers! With the Pokémon championship approaching, join our enthusiastic team as we build and catch our favorite Pokémon, rescue Pikachu from Team Rocket, take a ride on the S.S. Anne to uncover rare and mystic Pokémon, and battle to see who will hold the title of Pokémon Master. Come along on our journey to catch 'em all!!

Using LEGO, explore real-world concepts in physics, engineering, and architecture while building your favorite Minecraft mods, tools, and objects. Build an Iron Golem, the Nether Portal, the Ender Dragon, and more.