Event: Kids: Tinker Tuesday: Lego

When: Tuesday, May 5, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Drop-in / No Registration Required)

Where: Princeton Public Library – Myra & Van Williams Spark Lab (65 Witherspoon St, Princeton, NJ)

Event link: Princeton Public Library Events

Who it’s for: Kids in Grades 3–5

Why we love it 💛 Every incredible piece of real-world architecture and engineering starts with a simple plastic brick! The Princeton Public Library is opening up its high-tech Spark Lab for an amazing, hands-on “Tinker Tuesday” session dedicated entirely to LEGO building. Upper elementary students are invited to drop in and collaborate with their peers to explore, design, create, and problem-solve through physical construction. We absolutely love unstructured building events like this because they give young kids the total freedom to explore load-bearing shapes, spatial awareness, and creative design at their own pace without the pressure of a graded curriculum!

How this event aligns with iCode Princeton 🌈⚙️ Snapping physical LEGO bricks together is the exact foundation for advanced robotics and software engineering!

• Structural Hardware: Before you can automate a machine, you need to understand how pieces physically fit together to bear weight and create movement! When kids build a LEGO structure, they are learning foundational physics. In our VEX Robotics Tracks, students take these exact mechanical skills and upgrade them, using structural metal, gears, and high-torque motors to build automated machines that can navigate obstacle courses!

• Block-Based Coding: The concept of snapping physical blocks together is the exact metaphor we use to teach early programming! In our STEAM Junior and Game Design Programs, we use “Block-Based Coding” where kids drag and drop visual puzzle pieces to build their logic, ensuring they fully understand the architecture of software before they transition to typing complex syntax.

Join the fun—then keep the momentum going at iCode 🎒🚀 Build a masterpiece at the library, then bring that world-class curiosity to iCode Princeton where we turn physical engineering into lifelong tech innovation!

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