Building, Racing, Creating: LEGO Specialty Camp at Ramah Boston!

This week, camp was buzzing with creativity, construction, and a lot of LEGO bricks, as we hosted our much-anticipated LEGO Specialty Camp with our amazing partners from Play-Well TEKnologies!

This wasn’t just about snapping bricks together—it was about engineering. Campers worked with tens of thousands of LEGO parts and learned how to bring real-world concepts like torque, gears, and box frames to life through hands-on building and experimentation.

Each day brought new challenges and exciting new projects. As Isaac B. explained:

“On the first day it was a giraffe and a pull-back car. Then on the next days, we made a bunny with an electric motor, a monkey, and a catapult.”

That’s right—campers didn’t just build animals, they engineered them to move, jump, or even launch projectiles. By mid-week, our room was full of Lego-powered contraptions that could zip, bounce, spin, and race!

Nadav G. reflected on his favorite parts of the program:

“It was really fun making cars and racing them and putting cool stuff on the cars. It was fun when we learned about the pieces that made a crossbow shoot. We used a LEGO piece that has a spring, and it

 was really interesting to learn how it worked.”

The best part? Kids were learning engineering concepts without even realizing it—absorbing how force, motion, and design work together through trial, error, and tons of fun.

When asked if there was anything he didn’t like, Nadav summed it up perfectly:

“It was so fun playing with the LEGOs that the only negative thing was that we had to stop and take apart our creations!”

Throughout the week, our LEGO engineers showed incredible creativity, problem-solving, and teamwork. They weren’t just playing—they were designing, testing, iterating, and celebrating the joy of building something from the ground up.

Thank you to our fantastic partners at Play-Well TEKnologies and to our imaginative campers for an amazing week of building big ideas—brick by brick!