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 and programming robots, making a bubble bomb, launching a rocket, and creating slime. The program features themed options such as Gross Out Chemistry, Wizard’s Potions Lab, Zany Zoology, Jurassic Jamboree, BOTS – Early Robotics, BRICKS – Elementary Engineering Machines, Elementary Entomology, Potions Lab, and Forensic Mysteries. It also includes the Lego Engineering Action Contraptions program, Gross Out Chemistry in camp and class settings, and dinosaurs and potions birthday parties, as well as after school and snow day programs.
• Ages: 3–13 years old
Bricks Bots & Beakers creates STEAM classes, camps, parties, field trips, and workshops that include engineering and building activities for kids from age 3 through middle school, and the programs are not limited to LEGO materials. The program utilizes LEGO bricks to teach concepts of engineering, problem solving, design, and building, and teaches kids critical thinking skills and how to apply the engineering design process through building and programming robots, with coding presented as an authentic, real world application of programming robots. Science programs are described as “a blast—sometimes literally,” with a deep dive into science as the first piece of STEAM and unique, high-interest topics that ignite a passion for STEAM learning.
The company is founded and run by educators, and its philosophy of hands-on, minds-on learning encourages curiosity, exploration, and discovery. Classes for preschoolers use curriculum grounded in early childhood education theory, and the program offers a small group class setting with experienced teachers who scaffold rich learning experiences. Classes and camps are structured around more in-depth, intensive subject matter for older kids, and the program focuses on the 4C’s: Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity & Innovation. Multi-age programs allow siblings to attend at the same time, and half-day and full-day camp options are available.
Bricks Bots & Beakers has experience working with parks and recreation departments, community centers, school systems, and private schools across the country. Bringing B3 classes to a location is described as easy, as B3 provides an instructor who brings all materials and supplies, and can fit into existing programs and systems or handle all aspects of marketing, registration, payment, and parent communication. The equipment and logistics model is that the program provides an instructor with all materials and supplies, and the host provides adequate space for the classes.
Parent and educator feedback describes robotics camp where a child built “a lot of really neat things” and brought them home, and a child who discovered Minecraft through a B3 summer camp and became very interested in building with Minecraft, Legos, and blocks, as well as enjoying projects with friends on days when school is out. One parent reports three years of participation in B3 activities, including summer camps, dinosaurs and potions birthday parties, and after school and snow day programs, and notes that trying STEAM early on helped them discover their kids are interested in robotics. A school representative describes the Lego Engineering Action Contraptions program as “super fun and educational” for 2nd and 3rd graders, with students excited to work with moving gears and rubber band-powered projects and using worksheets to think about underlying engineering concepts. Another educator notes that B3 curriculum engages students with a variety of STEM options where students build, make slime, and observe while using chemistry, physics, and creativity, and appreciates the flexibility to expand or use sections of lessons during a camp. An anonymous parent from a camp feedback form states that they “loved all the hands-on stuff” and were pleased to have the camps available.
Last updated January 18, 2026.
• Ages: 3–13 years old
Bricks Bots & Beakers creates STEAM classes, camps, parties, field trips, and workshops that include engineering and building activities for kids from age 3 through middle school, and the programs are not limited to LEGO materials. The program utilizes LEGO bricks to teach concepts of engineering, problem solving, design, and building, and teaches kids critical thinking skills and how to apply the engineering design process through building and programming robots, with coding presented as an authentic, real world application of programming robots. Science programs are described as “a blast—sometimes literally,” with a deep dive into science as the first piece of STEAM and unique, high-interest topics that ignite a passion for STEAM learning.
The company is founded and run by educators, and its philosophy of hands-on, minds-on learning encourages curiosity, exploration, and discovery. Classes for preschoolers use curriculum grounded in early childhood education theory, and the program offers a small group class setting with experienced teachers who scaffold rich learning experiences. Classes and camps are structured around more in-depth, intensive subject matter for older kids, and the program focuses on the 4C’s: Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity & Innovation. Multi-age programs allow siblings to attend at the same time, and half-day and full-day camp options are available.
Bricks Bots & Beakers has experience working with parks and recreation departments, community centers, school systems, and private schools across the country. Bringing B3 classes to a location is described as easy, as B3 provides an instructor who brings all materials and supplies, and can fit into existing programs and systems or handle all aspects of marketing, registration, payment, and parent communication. The equipment and logistics model is that the program provides an instructor with all materials and supplies, and the host provides adequate space for the classes.
Parent and educator feedback describes robotics camp where a child built “a lot of really neat things” and brought them home, and a child who discovered Minecraft through a B3 summer camp and became very interested in building with Minecraft, Legos, and blocks, as well as enjoying projects with friends on days when school is out. One parent reports three years of participation in B3 activities, including summer camps, dinosaurs and potions birthday parties, and after school and snow day programs, and notes that trying STEAM early on helped them discover their kids are interested in robotics. A school representative describes the Lego Engineering Action Contraptions program as “super fun and educational” for 2nd and 3rd graders, with students excited to work with moving gears and rubber band-powered projects and using worksheets to think about underlying engineering concepts. Another educator notes that B3 curriculum engages students with a variety of STEM options where students build, make slime, and observe while using chemistry, physics, and creativity, and appreciates the flexibility to expand or use sections of lessons during a camp. An anonymous parent from a camp feedback form states that they “loved all the hands-on stuff” and were pleased to have the camps available.
Last updated January 18, 2026.
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