Workshops

Holiday workshops: Building and coding with LEGO PM (ages 9–11)

Put your building, computational thinking and problem solving skills to use by making a variety of programmable models using LEGO.

Students building lego robots
Image credit: Tim Mitchell

In this session with Brian Egles, you will work in pairs to build a variety of models using motors and sensors based on the LEGO WeDo kit. Models include wild animals, amazing mechanisms, adventure stories and football themes. See your LEGO models come to life and respond to the world around them.

This workshop is strictly for ages 9–11 only. We reserve the right to refund or deny entry to those who are not in this age range.

Refunds can only be issued for tickets cancelled at least two weeks (14 calendar days) in advance of the event date. Please note that this supersedes our normal event terms and conditions.

About Brian Egles

Brain Egles has been running STEM activity days and workshops in schools since 2010 after 25 years in industry working in engineering, IT and logistics. He has also worked in partnership with the National STEM centre delivering the  “Tim Peake  Primary Project” and the “Polar Explorer Programme” in schools.



Brian delivers robotics workshops to thousands of school students each year. He has also supported activities with younger students because robotics is such a rich domain for learning about science, technology, engineering and mathematics – and because robotics will change society and the world we all live in.

About our workshops

Holiday workshops at the Royal Institution give students a hands-on experience of STEM topics (science, technology, engineering, maths) beyond what they learn at school. Working in groups or pairs, students will get hands-on to complete activities, challenges or projects which help them look deeper at the subject they are exploring. These workshops don’t follow the school curriculum but instead show students the many real world uses of STEM topics, expanding their horizons beyond the classroom to see the amazing possibilities science can give you. Sessions are led by experts from across industry and academia who will share with the students their excitement and knowledge of their areas of expertise.

For any queries regarding this workshop please email events@ri.ac.uk.

Support to attend holiday workshops

The Potential Trust may be able to offer financial assistance to enable children to participate in Ri events and activities if this would otherwise be financially difficult. Please contact Anna Comino-James preferably via telephone on +44 (0)1844 351666, or at their new email address potentialtrust@gmail.com. Once a bursary is agreed, you will make your workshop bookings directly with the Ri.

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