Bricks Bots & Beakers
Bricks Bots & Beakers, 700 N Main St #902, Suite 902, Blacksburg, VA 24060
About
Bricks Bots & Beakers offers engineering and building activities that include building with LEGO bricks, creating Lego Engineering Action Contraptions, and working with moving gears and rubber band-powered projects. Children take part in building and programming robots, early robotics, Minecraft activities, and hands-on science projects such as making a bubble bomb, launching a rocket, slime, Gross Out Chemistry, Wizard’s Potions Lab, Zany Zoology, Jurassic Jamboree, Elementary Entomology, Potions Lab, and Forensic Mysteries. Classes and camps are offered in three focus areas called Bricks, Bots, and Beakers, and include CORE STEAM classes, camps, parties, field trips, and workshops, with multi-age programs that allow siblings to attend at the same time and half-day and full-day camp options.
• Ages: 3–13 years old
As a company founded and run by educators, Bricks Bots & Beakers states that it understands how kids think and learn, and its philosophy of hands-on, minds-on learning encourages curiosity, exploration, and discovery. BRICKS programs use LEGO Education curriculum and open-ended engineering classes and activities, and BOTS programs involve creating and running educational programs on various robotics platforms while focusing on critical thinking and problem solving. The preschool curriculum is grounded in early childhood education theory, with preschool classes that include brainstorming, creating, testing, and redesigning age-appropriate projects, age-appropriate coding in BOTS preschool classes, and BEAKERS preschool classes that introduce science vocabulary, developing hypotheses, making predictions, recording results, and drawing conclusions. B3 classes focus on the 4C’s: Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity & Innovation, and are described as curiosity driven, collaborative, and held in small group class settings with experienced teachers. Classes and camps for older kids focus on a single area such as BOTS – Early Robotics, BEAKERS – Gross Out Chemistry, or BRICKS – Elementary Engineering Machines, and programs are not limited to LEGO materials, also including hands-on science topics such as Gross Out Chemistry, Elementary Entomology, Potions Lab, and Forensic Mysteries.
Bricks Bots & Beakers creates meaningful opportunities for children to experience a full range of STEAM classes, camps, parties, field trips, and workshops, and after school classes are typically offered on-site in the child’s school. Classes and camps are offered at public and private schools, universities, childcare centers, preschools, and other community locations, and are also offered at convenient locations such as community centers, schools, and churches. Bringing B3 classes to a location includes a B3 instructor who brings all materials and supplies, and B3 can fit into existing programs and systems or handle all aspects of marketing, registration, payment, and parent communication. The organization has experience working with parks and recreation departments, community centers, school systems, and private schools across the country.
Parent and educator feedback includes comments that a child “really enjoyed the Robotics Camp” and was “so excited to bring them home,” and that a child “discovered Minecraft through a B3 summer camp” and became “hooked on building with anything.” One parent reports that B3 offers “many options for all ages and abilities,” including summer camps, dinosaurs and potions birthday parties, and after school and snow day programs, and that trying STEAM early on helped their family discover an interest in robotics. A teacher notes that the Lego Engineering Action Contraptions program has been “super fun and educational” for 2nd and 3rd graders, with worksheets that give children a chance to think about underlying engineering concepts. Another educator describes the curriculum as including a variety of STEM options where students “build, slime, and observe while learning and using chemistry, physics, creativity and more,” and comments on the flexibility to expand or use sections of lessons during a camp. An anonymous parent from a camp feedback form states, “We loved all the hands-on stuff. Thanks for offering these camps, we were so pleased to have these available!”
Last updated July 18, 2026.
• Ages: 3–13 years old
As a company founded and run by educators, Bricks Bots & Beakers states that it understands how kids think and learn, and its philosophy of hands-on, minds-on learning encourages curiosity, exploration, and discovery. BRICKS programs use LEGO Education curriculum and open-ended engineering classes and activities, and BOTS programs involve creating and running educational programs on various robotics platforms while focusing on critical thinking and problem solving. The preschool curriculum is grounded in early childhood education theory, with preschool classes that include brainstorming, creating, testing, and redesigning age-appropriate projects, age-appropriate coding in BOTS preschool classes, and BEAKERS preschool classes that introduce science vocabulary, developing hypotheses, making predictions, recording results, and drawing conclusions. B3 classes focus on the 4C’s: Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity & Innovation, and are described as curiosity driven, collaborative, and held in small group class settings with experienced teachers. Classes and camps for older kids focus on a single area such as BOTS – Early Robotics, BEAKERS – Gross Out Chemistry, or BRICKS – Elementary Engineering Machines, and programs are not limited to LEGO materials, also including hands-on science topics such as Gross Out Chemistry, Elementary Entomology, Potions Lab, and Forensic Mysteries.
Bricks Bots & Beakers creates meaningful opportunities for children to experience a full range of STEAM classes, camps, parties, field trips, and workshops, and after school classes are typically offered on-site in the child’s school. Classes and camps are offered at public and private schools, universities, childcare centers, preschools, and other community locations, and are also offered at convenient locations such as community centers, schools, and churches. Bringing B3 classes to a location includes a B3 instructor who brings all materials and supplies, and B3 can fit into existing programs and systems or handle all aspects of marketing, registration, payment, and parent communication. The organization has experience working with parks and recreation departments, community centers, school systems, and private schools across the country.
Parent and educator feedback includes comments that a child “really enjoyed the Robotics Camp” and was “so excited to bring them home,” and that a child “discovered Minecraft through a B3 summer camp” and became “hooked on building with anything.” One parent reports that B3 offers “many options for all ages and abilities,” including summer camps, dinosaurs and potions birthday parties, and after school and snow day programs, and that trying STEAM early on helped their family discover an interest in robotics. A teacher notes that the Lego Engineering Action Contraptions program has been “super fun and educational” for 2nd and 3rd graders, with worksheets that give children a chance to think about underlying engineering concepts. Another educator describes the curriculum as including a variety of STEM options where students “build, slime, and observe while learning and using chemistry, physics, creativity and more,” and comments on the flexibility to expand or use sections of lessons during a camp. An anonymous parent from a camp feedback form states, “We loved all the hands-on stuff. Thanks for offering these camps, we were so pleased to have these available!”
Last updated July 18, 2026.
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