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Ascendly proudly announces online classes for students. Use your own LEGO® bricks, or purchase the base kit that we use in all of our classes. The kit is available for purchase during the registration process. Visit the Registration Page to register for classes. You can also learn about our worthwhile referral program.
Online LEGO® Classes…
These classes are all online LEGO® classes with live instructors. As the year progress, we’ll add our non-LEGO® classes to our online catalog. You can sign up for our newsletter below to be notified when more classes are added.
Our Full Catalog of Online Engineering Classes for Kids
Jr. Structural Engineering Series
Towers, Bridges, and Castles with LEGO® Bricks
A Jr. Structural Engineering Course
Become a junior builder and make amazing LEGO® creations! You will learn core structural engineering concepts while building cool creations like towers, bridges and castles. There are no instruction booklets in this class – you will use your imagination to build these structures while learning the engineering behind them. So while your buildings will look cool on the outside, they will be rock-solid on the inside, ready to withstand an onslaught from earthquakes, boulders, and even hurricanes.
Rise to the Challenge Series
LEGO® Engineering Challenges
Build, Tilt, and Bend with LEGO®
Beyond junior LEGO®, get ready for the big LEGO® challenges. Bring your hard-core creative juices and move beyond the square world of traditional LEGO® bricks. This isn’t about structures, nor LEGO® bricks, it’s about a way of thinking Each lesson teaches critical thinking, brainstorming, planning, testing, and refining – but then move beyond a square world as you tilt, turn, roll, and twist your creations.
Creative Engineering with LEGO® Bricks Series
Explore your creativity by building more of the most famous buildings in the world. Pick out the best parts of each structure and create them using LEGO® bricks. Learn to use pieces in unconventional ways while building great masterpieces. Meet the challenges presented each week while placing your own creative stamp on them. This isn’t about following LEGO® instruction booklets, it’s about building awesome creations and sharing them with friends.
These classes are not sequential. Each class covers a different grouping of buildings from around the globe. They encourage kids to take a second look at these structures, noticing the thought and attention that went into the details of the construction.
Creative Engineering with LEGO® Bricks: Pyramids, Robots, and More (CC1)
Learn to use LEGO® pieces in unconventional ways while building great masterpieces. Construct buildings shaped like animals, robots and pyramids. Work together to build the Great Wall of China. Create an upside-down house. Meet the challenges presented each week while placing your own creative stamp on them.
Creative Engineering with LEGO® Bricks: Eiffel Tower, Castles, and More (CC2)
Explore your creativity by building more of the most famous buildings in the world. Pick out the best parts of each structure and create them using LEGO® bricks. Construct the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Jefferson Arch and the Hollywood Sign. Bring the Neuschwanstein Castle and the Eiffel Tower to life. Meet the challenges presented each week while placing your own creative stamp on them.
Creative Engineering with LEGO® Bricks: Taj Majal, White House, Big Ben, and More (CC3)
Continue your exploration of famous structures around the world. This class will visit the Taj Mahal in Agra, learning about how to construct domes and curved walls with LEGO® bricks. Drop in on the White House in Washington D.C., stop over and see Big Ben in London. Pay a visit to the Colosseum in Rome. Pick out the best parts of each structure and create them using LEGO® bricks. This isn’t about following LEGO® instruction booklets, it’s about building awesome creations and sharing them with friends.
Creative Engineering with LEGO® Bricks: Louvre, Famous Houses, and More (CC4)
Discover more fabulous structures around the world. This class will explore treasures here in the US as well as all over the globe. Construct the Statue of Liberty. Craft the Awakening Sculpture. Design your own version of Falling Water. Fashion the pyramid of the Louvre. The challenges in this class lead to inspirational building. Meet the challenges presented each week with LEGO® bricks while placing your own creative stamp on them.
Creative Engineering with LEGO® Bricks: London Eye, Atomium, Golden Gate Bridge, and More (CC6)
Discover more of the world’s most interesting structures. Build the London Eye, design your own version of the Meenakshi Amman Temple, find out what’s in the Atomium. Join us in our journey around the world exploring some of the most creative constructions in existence.
Creative Engineering with LEGO® Bricks: Washington Monument, Millau Bridge, St. Basil’s Cathedral and More(CC7)
Continue your journey around the world. Imagine the spray off of the Trevi Fountain in Italy, feel the enormity of Stone Hedge, admire the beauty of Santorini with it’s white buildings and bright blue roof tops, and examine the details of St. Basil’s Cathedral.
Lego Skills and Creativity Series
Join us for a series of 1-Day classes that encourage kids to turn their creativity into LEGO creations. Each class provides a unique challenge and opportunity for kids to expand their building skills and show-off their creativity by having them mee a specific LEGO challenge.
LEGO Minifigures from Scratch
Design your own LEGO person. Learn how to create faces, hair, moving limbs, etc.
LEGO Marine Creations
Design something you would find in the ocean, like fish, coral, boats, etc.
LEGO Nature Creations
Recreate something found in Nature.
LEGO Good v.s Evil
Design a scenario where good meets evil. It could be Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the two-faced LEGO guy or just two groups fighting over something
LEGO Garden Creations
Create your own garden, or things you would find in a garden like flowers, or a watering can.
LEGO Food
Use LEGO to design your favorite food or any food you desire to create such as cereal, milk, candy, etc.
Wearable LEGO
Design something you can wear. Think bracelets, glasses, helmets, hats, armor, etc.
Famous Landmarks with LEGO
Create a landmark from around the world that you have either visited, would like to visit or just think is interesting.
LEGO Monsters
Design your own Monster. It could be good (think Monsters,Inc.) or evil (the scary kind)
LEGO Spacecraft
Think about what you might see in space and start building. We hope to see rockets, satellites, rovers, etc.
Something in Your House in LEGO
Look around, recreate something you see. It could be furniture, games, favorite possessions, etc.
LEGO Vehicles
Create some form of transportation like trains, buses, cars, airplanes, etc.
LEGO Gaming
Build something you might find in a video and/or board game, a character/avatar, a specific world, a game board, etc.
Scene From a Favorite Movie in LEGO
Recreate a scene from your favorite movie, including characters, settings, etc.
LEGO Marble Run
Create a pathway for your marble, ping-pong ball or superball. Think turns, twists and drops.
LEGO Amusement Park Ride
Spinning, twisting, falling….See if you can give it some movement
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