We stopped by West Prep Elementary School to check out their Lego Coding and Engineering class.

So very cool.

♪♪ -Students at West Prep Elementary School are busy building world famous monuments and landmarks with Legos.

-The Golden Gate Bridge.

-This Lego Coding and Engineering class, one of 40 enrichment classes offered by After-School All-Stars Las Vegas at 16 schools, completely free of charge to students and their families.

(Jodi Manzella) First and foremost, we keep the children safe.

We feed them.

We provide them academic support through the help of licensed teachers.

And then, the dessert of our program, are all of the different activities that you could think of.

-But this class is so much more than just students playing with Legos.

-I love Legos!

-A week before the big Lego build, students like Lenny and his teammate Jayden-- -We built the Washington Memorial.

- --and Justice and her building partner Gael-- -Something in my mind that just told me to make buildings or an Eiffel Tower, so I decided to make an Eiffel Tower because why not?

- --along with their fellow all-stars, had quite a bit of homework-- (Jasmine Gladney) All right.

Go ahead.

Take out your research paper part.

- --from a history lesson about their chosen landmark-- -Do you know where that tower is?

- --to figuring out the measurements needed to construct their masterpieces.

-If this is one, you need to go up eight more.

(Lenny) What I love about After-School All-Stars is an amazing program that, that there's like many classes.

Dr.

Gladney, Lego Engineer Coding--which is one of my favorites, by the way--it's such a good, it's such a great class.

A great teacher, Dr.

Gladney.

-And that great teacher, by the way-- -So he needs to know that it's 10 of these going up in 10.

- --is quite the Lego master herself.

-I collect them, I build them, and then I display them.

There you go, Johnny.

This gives the kids an opportunity to have hands-on, to talk with each other, to just kind of like socialize as they're building, and then it gets them more excited about it.

And then when you show them that, oh, well, you do need this part of the the science lesson in order to do this, it makes them, you know, more encouraged to do it.

-Encouraging students to use their imagination-- -Good job.

- --believe in themselves, and make positive choices-- (Justice) My advice is keep trying, believe in yourself, and just be you.

- --something After-School All-Stars Las Vegas has been building upon for more than 30 years.

-Like teamwork, there's no "I" in team.

-Yes!

-We finished!

[students cheering] -I agree.

Teamwork makes the dream work.

Nice job, guys.

So brilliant.

And I have to say that Legos tend to bring out that inner child, so I had to get in on the fun.

Look what I made.

I think it's a robot or something.

I don't know.

I hope I get an A for effort.