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Our program emphasizes project-based learning, fostering innovative thinking, creative discussions, and a strong sense of community.

The Lansing Tech Studio empowers the next generation by igniting their passion for technology, innovation, leadership, and service, cultivating tomorrow’s leaders driven to shape a better future in their communities and the world. The Lansing Tech Studio is a student-focused, adult-guided technology center designed to empower the next generation of leaders with the growth mindset, technology skill

s, and business acumen needed to positively impact the world through innovative ideas and a heart-centered service posture. We aim to help students build life skills and heart-centered leadership, developing confidence and self-esteem. We focus on building skills in self-directed thinking, creativity, and cultivating a growth mindset through positive thinking, SMART goals, and discovering personal purpose and direction. During the school year, Lansing Tech Studio offers:
🔹 Fall Robotics Programs
Students prepare for both a November community demo and robotics competition. Requirements for participation are:
• Public speaking and presenting in the judging room
• Coding practice at home or prior coding experience
• Weekly writing/research homework (about 30 minutes per week)
• Teamwork, leadership, and project-based learning

🔹 Spring Tech Workshops
Students create real projects in coding, game design, AI, media, and technology — culminating in our Student Demo Day hosted at TechSmith HQ. Lansing Tech Studio was founded by a Christian homeschool family, and every event we host is designed to be family-friendly, encouraging, and community-centered. Thank you for supporting hands-on STEM education in Mid-Michigan!

06/05/2026

FIRST Core Value: FUN 🎉

One of the FIRST Core Values is Fun — because learning, innovation, and teamwork should be enjoyable!

Our goal is to be intentional about creating opportunities for students to build friendships, laugh together, and make great memories while learning STEM skills.

BELONGING is the word that has been put on our hearts for the year.

This year, we're excited to focus on fun through our Hackers Hangouts, including:
🎃 Trick-or-Treating Night
🔫 Nerf Gun Battle
🎲 Board Games
🌳 Park Playdates

We also bring fun into our regular practices with:
🎮 Team themes, props and spirit trinkets
🎨 Creative team poster design activities
🏅 Student participation buttons for each area (new this year!)

Hackers is about much more than building robots. It's about friendships, confidence, and creating a place where students are excited to show up each week to problem solve.

Because when students are having fun, they're often learning the most. 💙🤖

06/04/2026

🤖 What Is a FIRST LEGO League Competition Actually Like?

If you've never been to a FIRST LEGO League competition, you might picture students showing up, running their robot once, and heading home.

Competition day is actually a full day of teamwork, problem-solving, and celebrating everything students have worked on throughout the season.

In Michigan, each team participates in:

🔹 One Judging Session – Teams meet with judges in a private room and share all aspects of their season. Students present their Innovation Project, explain their robot design and coding process, and demonstrate how they lived out the FIRST LEGO League Core Values throughout the season. Many teams bring project displays, prototypes, and fun props to help tell their story.

🔹 Three to Four Robot Games – Throughout the day, teams compete in multiple robot rounds on the competition field. Each round gives students another opportunity to improve, adapt, and showcase the robot they've designed, built, and coded themselves.

One of the things we love most about FIRST LEGO League is that success isn't measured by robot scores alone. Students are recognized for research, creativity, teamwork, communication, perseverance, and how they support one another.

You'll see students celebrating personal bests, encouraging teammates, solving problems under pressure, and cheering for other teams. The atmosphere is competitive, but it's also incredibly supportive. They even network with and get to know other teams!

At Lansing Tech Studio, we love that FIRST LEGO League develops more than future engineers. It helps students grow in confidence, learn to work together, and discover that they belong on a team where their unique gifts matter.

Over the next few weeks, we'll be sharing more about the FIRST LEGO League Core Values and why they're such an important part of the experience.

06/03/2026

A question we frequently get asked...

"Do you offer high school robotics?" or "When are you going to start a high school team?"

The short answer is: We would love to.

The longer answer is that high school robotics requires a significant step up in facilities, funding, equipment, and volunteer support.

Right now, we're grateful to rent a space in West Lansing on Thursdays. It provides a safe environment for our students, and we have families traveling 30–40 minutes from all over the region to participate. So, where we are is a great middle ground for our families. As our programs grow, however, a high school robotics program would likely require either our own building or a larger space with dedicated storage and build areas.

Funding is another important piece of the puzzle. We'd love to be in a position to offer high school robotics within the next 1–2 years but getting there will require additional resources. We have been working with MBA students for grant and investment opportunities, but these are tricky and take time.

That's one reason our summer fundraiser is so important:
https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/lansing-tech-studio-field-day-june-27th

As students move into high school robotics, costs increase significantly. Programs like FIRST and VEX require more expensive equipment, competition fees, and materials. FIRST programs also require tools, build space, and equipment for designing and constructing robots.

We're also watching the evolving robotics landscape closely. With LEGO ending its partnership with FIRST and FIRST developing its own K–8 STEM curriculum, we don't yet know which high school program would be the best fit for our community. Whether it's FIRST, VEX, or another option, any path forward will require more time, funding, mentors, coaches, and community support.

What excites us most isn't just the robots—it's the opportunity to continue creating a place where students belong, build friendships, develop leadership skills, and tackle bigger challenges together.
Thank you to everyone who supports Lansing Tech Studio. Every student who attends, every volunteer who helps, and every donor who contributes brings us one step closer to making opportunities like high school robotics a reality.

06/02/2026

Great night last night at the Lansing Homeschool Expo hosted by CHESS!

Students had the chance to try coding with one of our robots and play video games created by Lansing Tech Studio students. It's always fun to see kids discover that technology isn't just something they consume—it's something they can create.

As I look ahead to the coming year, my word for our students is belonging.

Brené Brown says that the opposite of belonging isn't loneliness—it's fitting in. Fitting in means changing who you are to be accepted. Belonging means being accepted for who you are.

I also believe God created each of us uniquely and calls us to be who He made us to be—not who the world tells us we should become.

That's the kind of community I want us to continue building at Lansing Tech Studio.

Of course we'll keep learning robotics, coding, game design, and AI. But I also want our students to have opportunities to simply hang out, be themselves, build friendships, and know they belong.

That's why we're adding more community events this year, including park playdates, a volunteer beach picnic, trick-or-treating together, and Nerf gun battles.

Because the technology is important—but the relationships are what make this community special.I like keeping the God reference brief and connected directly to the idea of belonging. It feels natural rather than preachy and fits well with the rest of the post.

06/01/2026

Come see us tonight at the CHESS Lansing Homeschool Expo from 6:30 - 8:30!! I am finishing up filling slots for our beginner FLL Challenge level team!

Lansing Homeschool Hackers is a robotics and STEM community for students ages 9–14 who are interested in making friends, having fun, learning coding and robotics, and participating in FIRST® LEGO League Challenge teams.

Lansing Homeschool Hackers is one of the student programs offered through Lansing Tech Studio. Lansing Tech Studio was founded by a Christian homeschool family to provide family friendly STEM and tech opportunities to the community.

We currently support and lead FOUR FIRST® LEGO® League Challenge teams that meet weekly during the fall season:
📅 Thursdays
🕡 6:30–8:30 PM

Our Fall Robotics Program prepares students for both a November community demo event and a FIRST® robotics competition. Students develop skills in:
• Public speaking and presenting in the judging room
• Coding practice at home or prior coding experience
• Weekly writing/research homework (about 30 minutes per week)
• Teamwork, leadership, and project-based learning

During the official FIRST® LEGO® League season, students work together to:
🤖 Design, build, and program LEGO robots
💡 Research and create an innovation project
🎤 Present their ideas to judges and the community
🤝 Collaborate as a team while building confidence and leadership skills

Let me know if you have questions! Hackers does require time and dedication to participate, but we are a pretty cool bunch!!!

05/29/2026

🌎🎬 Biodiversity Documentary Recommendations for Students! 🎬🌎

As our Lansing Homeschool Hackers teams begin brainstorming ideas for this year’s FIRST® LEGO® League Innovation Projects around biodiversity, here are some great documentaries for brainstorming to help students explore ecosystems, conservation, sustainability, and the interconnectedness of life on Earth.

Here are a few family-friendly recommendations:

🌿 Our Planet
🌍 One Strange Rock
🚜 The Biggest Little Farm
🦋 Wings of Life
🐻 Bears
🐼 Born in China
🌎 Planet Earth
🌎 Planet Earth II
🐠 David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
🔗 Connected

These documentaries can help students:
💡 brainstorm Innovation Project ideas
🌱 better understand biodiversity and ecosystems
🤖 think about technology and environmental solutions
🎲 inspire storytelling and worldbuilding for creative project ideas
🧠 develop systems thinking and problem-solving skills

One of the things we love about FIRST LEGO League is that students learn STEM not just through robotics and coding, but by researching real-world problems and thinking creatively about how they can help make the world better.

If your student watches any of these over the summer, we’d love to hear:
➡ Which was their favorite?
➡ What problems or solutions stood out to them?
➡ What Innovation Project ideas did they inspire?

05/28/2026

One of the most exciting parts of FIRST® LEGO® League Challenge is the Innovation Project — where students identify a real-world problem and design a creative solution that could help people, communities, or the environment.

As our teams begin preparing for the fall season, here are 5 major issues affecting biodiversity that could inspire amazing student project ideas:

🌲 Habitat Destruction
🎣 Overexploitation
🐸 Invasive Species
🌡️ Climate Change
🏭 Pollution

Students could explore questions like:
💡 How can technology help protect habitats?
💡 Could robotics or AI help track invasive species?
💡 How can communities reduce pollution locally?
💡 What inventions could help animals adapt to climate change?
💡 How can engineering reduce waste or overfishing?

The best Innovation Projects often begin with:
✔ Curiosity
✔ Research
✔ Asking questions
✔ Talking to experts
✔ Looking for real problems in your community

Remember: FLL projects are not just about “winning.” They’re about learning how to think creatively, solve problems, communicate ideas, and make a positive impact on the world. So, think outside the box and focus on the SCIENTIFIC PROCESS!

We can’t wait to see what our teams dream up this season when we get the official theme announcement August 4th! 🌎✨

05/20/2026

🤖 Our Summer Robotics Camp is officially WAITLISTED! 🤖

We are so grateful for the excitement and support from families in our community. Seeing students eager to learn robotics, coding, teamwork, and innovation is exactly why Lansing Tech Studio exists.

If you missed getting a spot this summer, here are some great next steps for students interested in STEM and robotics:

💻 Explore free coding resources online
🤖 Check out the Carnegie Mellon University online robotics and computer science resources
🏫 Connect with a local school or community robotics program for fall opportunities
📍 Visit us at the CHESS Lansing Homeschool Expo on June 1st to learn more about our in-person school-year programs!

During the school year, Lansing Tech Studio offers:

🔹 Fall Robotics Programs
Students prepare for both a November community demo and robotics competition. Requirements for participation are:
• Public speaking and presenting in the judging room
• Coding practice at home or prior coding experience
• Weekly writing/research homework (about 30 minutes per week)
• Teamwork, leadership, and project-based learning

🔹 Spring Tech Workshops
Students create real projects in coding, game design, AI, media, and technology — culminating in our Student Demo Day hosted at TechSmith HQ.

Lansing Tech Studio was founded by a Christian homeschool family, and every event we host is designed to be family-friendly, encouraging, and community-centered.

Thank you for supporting hands-on STEM education in Mid-Michigan! 💙

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