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Experience and Explore Robotics

Team up to design and code a bot and put it to the test!

Tweens and teens in grades 4-8 are invited to take their brick builds to the next level with LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime kits!

The Young Women’s Leadership Academy’s Dork Side competitive robotics team will be on-site to mentor and provide tips and strategy. Monthly challenges are designed for fun, team-based learning with new challenges each month. Bot Builders is funded by community donations to the Fort Worth Public Library Foundation.

Bring some friends and join the fun at these events:

This program is currently on winter break, but will be back this spring!

Bot Builders - Summerglen

26 Apr 2025 Move up from bricks to bots with this fun, interactive program for youth looking for a new STEAM challenge.

Fort Worth Public Library - Summerglen, 4205 Basswood Blvd., Fort Worth 76137

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Bot Builders - East Regional

26 Apr 2025 Move up from bricks to bots with this fun, interactive program for youth looking for a new, STEAM challenge.

Fort Worth Public Library - East Regional, 6301 Bridge St., Fort Worth 76112

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Bot Builders - Lincoln

17 May 2025 Move up from bricks to bots with this fun, interactive program for youth looking for a new, STEAM challenge.

Fort Worth Public Library - Lincoln, 8829 Mc Cart Ave., Fort Worth 76123

Robot-themed books!

What can we do with a LEGO® SPIKE™ Prime kit?

About this collaboration

Mayor Mattie Parker visited the Young Women's Leadership Academy in 2023 and met students representing The Dork Side, a competitive robotics team. When she asked the students what she could do for them, they shared an idea about mentoring other youth interested in robotics. The Mayor introduced the students to the programming staff at the Library who were very impressed with the presentation and programming idea. Thanks to the funding support from community donors to the Fort Worth Public Library Foundation, robotics kits were purchased and a program was created to serve youth across the City of Fort Worth beginning in September 2024.