Build on Ice Competition

Presenting the 2026 Christchurch Brick Show LEGO® Competition:

for 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 four week loan of an Antarctica themed Imagination Station LEGO® kit!

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

    Antarctica NZ 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 your objectives across multiple aspects of your 2026 curricula and themes, particularly in science, technology, social studies, the arts and English. Imagination Station will not only provide the LEGO to use, but also resources around the design process to help your students plan their entries.

    Registration and entry is FREE - Register
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School Entries

Entry Criteria

Prizes

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 four week period.

Participating schools will receive a:

  • four-week 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 6-8 Google/PowerPoint slides per build entry and are judged as:

  • years 1-6
  • years 7-13

Entries are either an A3 poster or 6-8 Google/PowerPoint slides per build entry and are judged in the following categories:

  • years 1-6
  • years 7-13

We want to see:

  • name of Entry and year group (if a class, tell us how many students involved)
  • photos of front, back & sides of your entry
  • bullets points describing your design process
  • anything else you want to tell us about your build.

Criteria for judging:

  • creativity, design and skill with LEGO building
  • tie in to Antarctica
  • story behind your creation.

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