Another fabulous time at Brick Fest Live for Houston Brick Club! This is such a fun event with so many opportunities to talk with and interact with the public about Lego©. We had 20 members displaying at this event. Event attendance was 17,000 total (6,800 kids, 1,700 teens, 8,500 adults.

A special thank you to the Brickfest Live team they are always so nice and accomodating to us for our displays providing tables, stantions, chairs and electrical drops.

We had 4 of our members displaying at Gator Con a day where the Community and teachers set aside a day for students and their families to celebrate reading and all things literacy at a comic-con-styled event. Students come to the school in cosplay where they will see all types of characters from Star Wars to Spider-Man, create superhero themed crafts listen to the authors, see displays designed around the day, participate in a Quidditch clinic and an Old English maze, and simply be immersed in literature. Approximately 1500 attended this amazing event.

We had a wonderful event at the Lone Star Flight Museum Lego day! We had 14 members participate and bring mocs. Total attendance was 710 (394 adults, 216 Children, 100 Children under 4).

Houston Brick club held their annual Christmas Bash on December 14th this year and it was a huge success! We had 60 members in attendance! Thanks so much to Jeff and Angela Schroeder for hosting us they have been so gracious to do this for several years in a row! We had so much fun. The food was absolutely delicious, we had lasagna (meat and vegatarian varities), cake and all the trimmings. We held our annual dirty brickster (white elephant exchange), we drafted a lego set and also had our custom built ornament exchange. 85 sets and a big bag of polybag sets were donated by our members to Texas Children’s Hospital.

We had 6 Club members present, all with MOCs: Jose Ruiz, Angela Wynans, Alexander Harber, Pam & John Tesch, Tim Howell.  We displayed from 9:30 to 2:30pm. We had approximately 2300 in attendance (250 kids, 50 teens, 2,000 adults). The public visitors really enjoyed seeing what we brought and were very appreciative.

Club meeting at Bricks & Minifigs Katy, we had a great turnout. Build challenge was a 16×16 D&D creation. Congratulations to Seth for winning this month’s build contest!

Our club meeting challenge this month was “shiptember”. Alexander Harber took home the bragging rights of winning this month with his take on Blacktron. We had 22 members in attendance as well as 2 kfols.

The Houston Brick Club participated in the Houston Science Festival – Scratch Day held at the Humble Civic Center on Saturday, September 7 from 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. produced by Bridges to Science, a 501c3 dedicated to bringing STEM educational content to Hispanic students, homeschool students, and underprivileged students.

Representing the HBC were:

– Vincent Knight, with his monorail, row of townhouse modular sets and MOCs, and his National Museum of African American History and Culture MOC.

– Robert Carlisle, with this large and motorized Technic models.

– Rosa Chen, with her collection of tactile Technic MOCs.

– and Mark Langford, with his Wayne Tower MOC.

Attendance was 300-350. We gave out raffle tickets to students who engaged us with questions.