STEM Camps

Where Creativity Critical Thinking and Literacy Coalesce

CODE AND COMPETE: Join our FLL and ACSL Teams!

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Calling all creative, curious, and competitive minds! Join our STEM Camps and get a head start on training for the SY 2025-2026 First LEGO League Competitions!

This year's FIRST® LEGO® League challenge is UNEARTHED. This season, students will learn about people and things of the past. During the season, they will explore the theme and ideas, create and test solutions, and share what they’ve created and learned with others.

First Lego League competition Coaching

Join our Team and Compete In December 2025

Turn your child's love of LEGO into real-world engineering, problem-solving, and innovation! Join the Masterpiece Academy's official FLL Robotics Program, powered by FIRST® LEGO® League.

First Lego League Explore

Grades 2-4

First Lego League Challenge

Grades 5-8

Grades 2-4 first Lego League Explore

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Why Join? Routine Curriculum Schedule

Why Join?

Build. Code. Collaborate.

Use LEGO SPIKE™ Essential
Weekly sessions
Students follow the Engineering Design cycle
Projects include environmental design, transportation, and community innovation.

This program emphasizes the Project and Inquiry-Based Learning mindset, focusing on inquiry, collaboration, creation, and reflection.

Routine

Routine

Time	Activity
10 mins	Welcome, recap, and team warm-up challenge
20 mins	STEM story discussion + problem exploration
30 mins	LEGO building & programming (SPIKE Essential)
10 mins	Testing, refining, and documenting in the Engineering notebook
5 mins	Team sharing and clean-up

Engineering Design Cycle: Explore → Create → Test → Share

Weekly Format Highlights:

Engineering Notebook Skills: Students reflect, sketch, and write about builds
LEGO SPIKE Essential Projects: Hands-on activities like Pulling, Speed, Prevent Flooding, Drop & Rescue, and Sort to Recycle
STEM Missions: Each week includes a short design-build-test loop
Core Values Integration: Collaboration, sharing ideas, teamwork, and presentation

Key Learning Themes:

Simple machines, sensors, gears
Cause-and-effect logic and basic coding
Design thinking and creative problem solving
Presentation readiness for mini-showcases

Curriculum

Key Learning Themes:

Simple machines, sensors, gears
Cause-effect logic and basic coding
Design thinking and creative problem solving
Presentation readiness for mini-showcases

Example session: "Design a rescue bot that can carry a LEGO figure across a gap using gear-powered motion!"

FLL EXPLORE (Grades 2–4) – Curriculum Overview

Focus:

Hands-on LEGO® model building with SPIKE™ Essential
Team-based engineering design challenges
Intro to programming and problem-solving
Core Values: teamwork, communication, and discovery

Weekly Curriculum Components (12-hour summer model):

Week 1: Introduction to the team & STEAM materials
Weeks 2–4: Mission-based LEGO builds with guided coding
Week 5: Engineering Notebook reflection + iteration
Week 6: Project presentation & celebration showcase

Students follow the Explore → Create → Test → Share model weekly.

Schedule

Tuition Fee: $695 per semester with the Engineering Notebook.

Some Saturdays and Student Holidays from 10:00 am to 11:45 am at One Loudoun (Fall). The Winter Meeting Dates will be held in our Fairfax location. Spring dates will be held in both locations.

Fall 2025

October 18, 25, November 1, 8, 15, December 6 & 13, 2025
Competition: Spring 2026

Location: The Masterpiece Academy at One Loudoun

44679 Endicott Dr Ste 341, Ashburn, VA 20147. See the parking info below.

The Spring First Lego League Tournament Meeting will be in our Fairfax location:

Fee: $695 Spring Coaching
Gr 5-8 FLL Challenge 10:00 to 11:45 AM
Meeting Dates for the Competition: January 10, 17, 31, Feb 21, 28, March 7 & 14, 2026, 3:30 to 5:50 pm
VA-DC Spring Competition: March 2026
Location: 10304 Eaton Pl, Ste 100, Fairfax, VA 22030

Join the Masterpiece Academy Team and Compete!

Grades 5-8 First Lego League Challenge

Sensor Synergy Programming Responsive Robotics

Deadline to Join the Fall FLL Tournament Team: October 10, 2025

Why Join? Routine Curriculum Schedule

Why Join?

How It Aligns with Academics & Careers

Common Core ELA Integration:

Students practice explanatory writing, presenting ideas, and receiving structured feedback
Emphasis on vocabulary, technical writing, and collaboration

Career Readiness:

Students explore roles like programmer, designer, builder, and team manager.
Projects simulate real STEM team dynamics and develop portfolios

Focus:

Robotics, coding missions, innovation projects
Use of LEGO® SPIKE™ Prime
Team strategy and research

Routine

Time	Activity
10 mins	Team check-in & goal setting
30 mins	Robot mission strategy or innovation project
45 mins	Coding & mission testing (SPIKE Prime)
30 mins	Team presentations or refinement coaching
10 mins	Daily reflection + materials reset

Lessons pulled from real FLL Challenge past competition units, such as Invention Squad or Life Hacks.

Curriculum

Topic	Activities
Basic Build & Code	Chassis design, sensors, tank drive, Java basics
Innovation Projects	Team brainstorms real-world problems & sketches solutions
Autonomous Challenges	Coding obstacle runs using sensors
Core Values	Team identity, gracious professionalism
Mini-Sprint	Final day test runs + team presentations

Weekly Curriculum Components

Introduction to SPIKE™ Prime
Engineering Notebook setup
Robot base build + sensor integration
Basic coding: movement, loops, inputs
Identify a real-world problem (aligned to the season’s theme)
Begin Innovation Project research
Start testing mission challenges
Team roles + collaboration protocols
Continue Innovation Project solution development
Robot code refinement for multiple missions
Strategy sessions: optimize run sequences
Mini-scrimmage to test robot performance
Final Innovation Project presentation prep
Team reflection: What worked? What will we improve?
Robot demonstration for parents/mentors
Showcase + certificate presentation

Schedule

Tuition Fee: $695 per semester with the Engineering Notebook.

Every Saturday. Fall Season in One Loudoun.

Gr 5-8 FLL Challenge 3:30 to 5:30 pm
Meeting Dates for the Competition: October 19 (Sunday), 25, November 1, 8, 15, December 6 and 13, 2025.
Competition: December 14, 2025

Location: The Masterpiece Academy at One Loudoun

44679 Endicott Dr Ste 341, Ashburn, VA 20147. See the parking info below.

The Spring First Lego League Challenge Tournament Meeting will be in our Fairfax location:

Fee: $695 Spring Coaching
Gr 5-8 FLL Challenge 3:30 to 5:30 pm
Meeting Dates for the Competition: January 10, 17, 31, Feb 21, 28, March 7 & 14, 2026, 3:30 to 5:50 pm
VA-DC-MD Spring Competition: March 2026
Location: 10304 Eaton Pl, Ste 100, Fairfax, VA 22030

Join our Team & Compete on December 14, 2025