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SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 - 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM

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Celebrate everything LEGO® at our 10th Annual Festival. There’s fun for the whole family!

Enter the Building Contest, test your skills in the Challenge Zone, sign up for a workshop, vote for your favorite entry in the Building Contest, marvel at the LEGO® displays, build a robot with LEGO® MINDSTORMS®, and more!

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Activities

  • Challenge Zone – Hallway (10:00 AM – 3:00 PM)
    Test your problem solving abilities in the LEGO® Challenge Zone.

  • Coloring Table – Children’s Room
    Help color some GIANT! minifigures or work on one of our LEGO® themed coloring sheets.

  • Family Build – Large Meeting Room (opens at 10:00 AM)
    Explore your creativity with the Library’s LEGO® bricks. Work alone or with someone else. What will you create?

  • Family Build (DUPLO) – Children’s Room play area
    Explore your creativity with the Library’s DUPLO® bricks. Work alone or with someone else. What will you create?

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Schedule of Events

  • 10:00 - 11:30 AM – Sumo Bots with The Parity Bits – Grades 4 and Up – Teen Workshop
    Registration required. 

  • 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM – Lower Level Hallway & Large Meeting Room
    Test your problem solving abilities in the LEGO® Challenge Zone, enjoy a quiet moment in the Reading Corner, marvel at displays of LEGO® creations, and build with your family in the Family Build area

  • 11:00 AM – Contest Room opens – Learning Center
    See the amazing creations entered in the Building Contest and vote for your favorite and take a guess at how many bricks are in the Guessing Jar.

  • 1:00 - 2:30 PM – Sumo Bots with The Parity Bits – Grades 4 and Up – Teen Workshop
    Registration required.

  • 3:00 PM LEGO® Master Dan Steininger - Living Room on the Main Level
    Dan Steininger spent 24 years with the LEGO® Company and was one of only 8 LEGO® Master Model Builders in the world. Join him for an entertaining presentation about his career as a Master Builder and maybe get to do a bit of building yourself!

  • 4:00 PM – Award Presentation – Large Meeting Room
    The winners of the building contest, the Viewers Choice award, and the Guessing Jar will be announced and prizes awarded.

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Sumo Bots

with Lexington High School’s Parity Bits robotics club

Learn to Build and program a LEGO® MINDSTORM® Sumo Bot with the Parity Bits and then test it in battle!

Registration Required.

Children battling their custom built LEGO® MINDSTORM® Sumo Bot with the Parity Bits

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Cary Teens Lead the Way is a program organized through the Teen Services department of Cary Library to highlight the talents of the teens in our community, grades 6-12.

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BRICKmania! Is sponsored by the Friends of Cary Memorial Library.

The programs conducted by Cary Library are not affiliated, sponsored, or endorsed by LEGO® Education or the LEGO® Group. LEGO®, the LEGO® logo, the Brick, DUPLO®, and MINDSTORMS® are trademarks of the LEGO® Group. ©2023 The LEGO® Group.

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