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SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 2024 - 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

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Celebrate everything LEGO® at our 11th Annual Festival. There’s fun for the whole family!

Enter the Building Contest, test your skills in the Challenge Zone, help create a giant LEGO® mosaic, vote for your favorite entry in the Building Contest, marvel at the LEGO® displays, sign up to build a sumo bot with LEGO® MINDSTORMS®, and more!

Read our social story about Brickmania [PDF].

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Two children playing with Lego blocks on the wall WHAT'S HAPPENING
Three children holding green BRICKMANIA buckets. BUILDING CONTEST
Looking down at children encircling a couple of robots battling. SUMO BOT WORKSHOP

Child kneeling in front of wall mounted Lego construction.Activities

  • Challenge Zone – Large Meeting Room & Hallway (10:00 am – 3:00 pm)
    Test your problem solving abilities in the LEGO® Challenge Zone: design a race car, build an earthquake proof tower, build horizontally, and more!
  • 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?

Children and adult peering into a glass case holding a Lego construction.

Schedule of events

[link to printable pdf of schedule]

  • 10:00 - 11:30 am – Robotics Workshop with The Parity Bits – grades 4-12 – Teen Workshop
    Registration required.
  • 10:00 am – 3:00 pm – Lower Level Hallway & Large Meeting Room Open
    Test your problem solving abilities in the LEGO® Challenge Zone, 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.
  • 1:30 - 3:00 pm – Robotics Workshop with The Parity Bits – grades 4-12 – Teen Workshop
    Registration required.
  • 3:00 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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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. ©2024 The LEGO® Group.

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