Bay Ridge Library has Lego Play on Wednesdays. The program has been running since 2013. They also have a Play Station 4.7223 Ridge Blvd718-748-5709.
The Fort Hamilton Library on the corner of 95th Street and 4th Avenue has a Little Bits Workshop that you can register children 6-12 years old (see here to register) They also have a Lego Program for children ages 6-12 on Wednesdays (see here)
The Dyker Library located at 8202 – 13th Avenue has Build with Lego Duplo blocks for little kids under five years old from on Wednesdays from 11 am – 1pm. They also have Teen Tech Time with WiiU with games like Super Smash Brothers or Mario Cart 8 on Wednesday afternoon – (see here)
The New Utrecht Library at 1743 – 86th Street has a program for children 6-10 years old every Tueday afternoon from 4 – 5 pm. They have done straw rockets, survival challenges, paper airplane gold and design a skyscraper
The Sunset Park Library has the Build with Lego and Duplo program at 3:00 pm on Tuesdays. 5108-4th Avenue
In October, there is coding at libraries in other boroughs (not Brooklyn) for children 7-14 years old. See hereYou can also narrow down the boroughs and see the events chronologically here (there’s even a “Build a Robotic” hand there.
2)Engineering for Kids Summer Program – (used to be a DGK school in Bay Ridge). They are now in Downtown Brooklyn. They have an an afterschool program and Summer program for children 4-7 year olds, as well as a program for 8-14 year olds.
3)Kingsborough Collegealways has tech classes in their College for Kids Program. These classes are available on Saturday throughout the year, as well as during the Summer. The College for Kids currently has 3D Design, Mindcraft, Craft Design and Game Creator classes for children ages 5-13. Usually there is a robotics class as well, but it is not on this years offerings. See herefor more info.
5) Modding Mindcraft and Kodu Video Gaming Lessons at Congregation Beth Elohim for students in second to sixth grade. Info info here
6)Brooklyn Robot Foundry – Robot Building for Kids. Summer Program as well. Classes just for girls. They have a lot of speakers throughout the year promoting diversity in STEM.
7) Girls WHO Code– Summer Program for 10th and 11th Grade Girls to Learn Coding (applications for the Summer program come out in January)
8) BTECH – for high school girls (8th graders entering high school included) July 17-21. See here
13) BkBots at Lego Robotics Camp and Classes at 361 5th Avenue and 338 6th Avenue. Summer Lego Program for students in grades 2-8 and also a Coding Camp for grades 6-12 (Arduino). Started by a physics teacher.
15) Tech Camp for ages 6-9 at the Berkley Carroll School
16) SHIP – Summer Hacking Program for high school students – 4 weeks in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn. They also have hacking sessions for teens throughout the year.
17) NY Kids Club has an Architects & Engineers class for children 3-5 years old – 5 months – once a week for around $600. This is a code to get $100 discount : Welcome100
If your child likes to tinker, Home Depot has a Build It Project every other month or so for free. You can check the site and registerhereLowes stopped offering these types of workshops.
Makerfaire– every year at the end of September (in 2017 it’s on September 23rd and 24th) in Queens outside the Hall of Science. It’s an event for a child 8 or 9+, middle school tech lovers and up. They have areas for them to learn to weld and each year the kids learn to make a circuit and leave with a light up Makerfaire toy (it’s included in the price of the ticket). It’s a little expensive, but there are discount codes all over the web starting in August. This is for older kids because the park is filled with booths and exhibits (like 50 different 3D printer exhibits). There are some crazy bikes to ride and exhibits that allow children to participate as well. There are also some exhibits inside the Hall of Science as well.
Poly Prep WISE – Women in Science and Engineering offers a fantastic day with workshops for girls. Last year it was in November, but other years it was in the Spring. Free.
Play Fair on November 4th and 5th – it’s a toy fair by Toys R Us and Nickelodeon. The event is held at the Javits Convention Center, but there are a lot of Lego stations throughout the Javits Convention Center. It’s $20 a ticket or $73 for four tickets.
First Lego Robotics Competitions – Watch teams have their robots compete to do missions. This is fun for children to participate in, but boring and kind of hard for a child who can’t touch the legos and needs to be just a spectator.
