School Holiday Fun: Drones, Robots, LEGO, Coding & More!

Next date: Monday, 21 September 2026 | 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Children aged 4 to 16 years can enjoy a range of fun and engaging school holiday workshops. Each session is designed to inspire imagination and build practical skills through making, building, designing, and exploring. Children can take part in a variety of hands-on activities, including coding, LEGO® robotics, drone challenges, creative circuits, engineering challenges, and more.

Monday, 21 September 2026
10:00 am – 11:30 am: Coding Adventures! – An Introduction to Coding (Age guide: 4–10 years)
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm: Makers Missions – Create, Build, Play (Age guide: 8–14 years)

Wednesday, 23 September 2026
10:00 am – 11:30 am: LEGO® Robotics – Amusement Park (Age guide: 8–16 years)
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm: LEGO® Robotics – Dragster Dash! (Age guide: 8–16 years)

Thursday, 1 October 2026
10:00 am – 11:30 am: Drones (Basics) – Level 1 (Age guide: 8–16 years)
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm: Light It Up! – Creative Circuits (Age guide: 8–16 years)

Friday, 2 October 2026
10:00 am – 11:30 am: Drones (Advanced) – Level 2 (Age guide: 8–16 years)
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm: Code the Road! – Sphero indi (Age guide: 8–16 years)

Coding Adventures! – An Introduction to Coding
Discover the foundations of coding through fun, hands-on activities with robots, games, and patterning challenges. Play, experiment, and discover how simple instructions and patterns can bring ideas to life.

Makers Missions – Create • Build • Play
Take on a series of fun maker missions, from designing and constructing a robot to tackling a towering engineering challenge. Build, experiment, and put a Dash robot to the test as you try different ways to solve each challenge.

LEGO® Robotics – Amusement Park
Design and create an interactive LEGO® amusement park and bring it to life with lights, sounds, and movement. Code your creations and discover how programming can make your amusement park come to life!

LEGO® Robotics – Dragster Dash!
Build and race LEGO® dragsters in a fast-paced robotics challenge. Experiment with different designs, test your ideas, and see how fast your dragster can go!

Drones (Basics) – Level 1
Discover the world of drones! Learn about different types of drones, explore flight safety, practise basic flying skills, and get introduced to coding for automated drone flight.

Drones (Advanced) – Level 2
Take your drone skills to the next level with exciting obstacles and challenges. Put your precision flying skills to the test as you tackle a series of fun drone challenges.Note:Prior attendance at the Drones (Basics) – Level 1 workshop is required.

Light It Up! – Creative Circuits
Bring the Arts into STEAM with hands-on circuit-building activities using LEDs, batteries, and creative design. Discover how electricity flows as you create your own light-up craft to take home.

Code the Road! – Sphero indi
Explore coding with Sphero indi robot cars using colourful coding tiles to create routes and solve challenges. 

Limited spots are available. Early bookings are encouraged.
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This event is community-led and is not coordinated or endorsed by Bundaberg Regional Council. 

 

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Location

CQUniversity Bundaberg Makerspace, 6 University Drive (Building 5), Branyan, 4670, View Map