Block Kids -- This event encourages and promotes construction to students in grades 1 through 6. The contest is held on the local, regional and then national level. Students are provided with identical kits of material and given 45 minutes to build something pertaining to construction. They are judged on the construction and their verbal explanation of their project.

Every student is given 100 Lego Building Blocks, a piece of string, a piece of foil and a piece of cardboard and given 45 minutes to build something using their imaginations.

The 2009 event was held in February at Concord Elementary School in Milwaukie, OR..

Our winners were:

• First Place: Jesse Martinez
• Second Place: Jonah Shriver
• Third Place went to Gillian Chase