Winners of annual competition revealed as all ages in Fort St. John embrace International Lego Day

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — The winners of an annual competition in Fort St. John, hosted alongside other programs in the city as all ages embraced International Lego Day 2026, have been revealed.

The city celebrated International Lego Day on January 28th by hosting its annual FSJ Build Off event, with residents sending in their Lego creations based on Fort St. John landmarks. 

According to a Facebook post uploaded to the City of Fort St. John Recreation page in March, the winners for the four categories are: 

• Children (four to 11 years) – FSJ Museum Pump Jack by Oliver (eight years old)
• Youth (12 to 17 years) – Who Let the Dogs Out?, showcasing the North Peace Arena, by Michael (14 years old) 
• Adults (18 and over) – Charlie Lake Community Garden by Alyssa Currie, who won last year’s competition as well.  
• Family (one adult and one child or youth) – The Culture Bricktorium by Sawyer (eight years old) and Kacey (62 years old)

Energeticcity.ca reached out to the city to get the full names of the winners but did not hear back in time for publication.

Additionally, SD60’s before and after school care (BASC) team also organized multiple challenges for the kids to take part in on February 27th.

Susanne Currie, coordinator for before and after school care, told Energeticity.ca: “Everybody loves Lego and I thought it would be a great motivator to keep the kids engaged and entertained.” 

BASC organized a few Lego challenges, which included a tower challenge and an individual challenge. 

“They were split up into teams and they had to build a tower as tall as they could within 10 minutes and it couldn’t fall down for 10 seconds,” she said. “Another challenge they had is, they had to pick any 20 pieces of Lego [and] they had 15 minutes to build whatever they could come up with.”

Currie said the kids created some “pretty creative things” from basketball courts to hotels and playgrounds. 

“[The kids], they loved it. They thought it was super fun, working together as well as individually, they came up with some really creative ideas.” 

Currie said these challenges helped the children develop various skills as well. 

“It helped with their cooperation and their teamwork, their imagination and using open-ended materials helped their small motor skills and communication because they had to talk to their partner and figure out how to build something perfect.” 

Although this was the first time the program organized a Lego challenge, in the past, it held a science day. 

“We are going to be doing some building challenges during our spring break camp, Lego blocks, Play Doh and then for our next ‘pro D Day’ [professional development day], we are going to be doing messy play,” she added. “So we’re going to use slime, mud and paint to see what we can do with that.” 

BASC’s spring break camp will run for two weeks from March 16th to March 27th. 

For more information on the camp, click here.