Build on Ice

Presenting the 2025 Christchurch Brick Show LEGO Competition:

Build on Ice

- a LEGO competition targeted at years 1-8 with an Antarctic theme

Imagination Station have partnered with Antarctica NZ to provide access to LEGO resources for year 1-8 students in 40 schools.

The competition will celebrate creativity and innovation and has a multitude of potential tie-ins with school curricula, especially around resources and environments.

If your school doesn’t have LEGO, that's no barrier: the first 40 schools will receive a one month loan of an Antarctica themed Imagination Station LEGO® kit!

Click to register!

Theme: Antarctica (e.g. landscape, animals, buildings, science, vehicles)

Antarctica New Zealand has provided some great resources to support classroom learning and give you some great ideas on what to build. There is a broad scope to help you meet some of your DDDOs and other aspects of your 2025 curricula and themes.

Registration and entry is FREE!

School Entries

Incorporate the Antarctica NZ Activity Book into your curriculum, support the students with our design process templates, and let the kids showcase their learning and creativity!

The Imagination Station LEGO® kit will be loaned to up to 40 schools for a one month period during terms 1 and 2, 2025.

Participating schools will receive a:

one month loan of an identical box of Antarctic coloured LEGO® (Imagination Station LEGO® kit)
Antartica NZ Activity Book
Imagination Station Engineering Design Process templates.

Competition entries are poster or digital, and each school is required to enter a minimum of 5 builds (builds will be dismantled for other student build entries). School Entries can be individual, group or class, but must use the Imagination Station LEGO® kit. Entries are either an A3 poster or 4-8 google slides per build entry and are judged as:

years 1-6
years 7-13

A3 posters and google slides will be displayed at the 2025 Christchurch Brick Show, July 2025.

Individual Entries

Individual Entries are an Antarctica themed free build, using own LEGO. Size of entry is no larger than 50x50cm, with a maximum height of 50cm.

Exhibition of individual entries: at Tūranga the weekend of 14/15 June and are judged as:

years 1-6
years 7-13

All entries must be genuine LEGO to be considered for judging. Judging is based on creativity, design and skill with LEGO building.

Prizes:

School Entry years 1-6

1 day of Imagination Station at your school
Zoom call with Scott Base, Antarctica NZ

School Entry years 7-13

1 day of Imagination Station at your school
Zoom call with Scott Base, Antarctica NZ

Individual Entry years 1-6

$100 Imagination Station voucher
Family Pass to Antarctic Centre
Entry displayed at 2025 Christchurch Brick Show

Individual Entry years 7-13

$100 Imagination Station voucher
Family Pass to Antarctic Centre
Entry displayed at 2025 Christchurch Brick Show