You can choose a Robotics or Minecraft party!
Here are some typical activities we've used for a Robotics party, depending on the age range and experience of the guests. You can also suggest your own ideas.
- Build non-robotic vehicles and go for distance, speed and accuracy down a ramp. The kids can work alone or in pairs.
- Build motorized, but non-robotic, vehicles. The kids work in pairs.
- Start with pre-built, pre-programmed robot vehicles and then customize them ("trick-out", "bling" or whatever you want to call it!) to battle each other in a ring. The kids are also able to make simple changes to the programming to suit their particular robot. The kids work in pairs.
Total cost for a Robotics party is $200 for up to 10 children and 90 minutes of robot (or just lego) building time at our 30 Bridge St. location where the kids work together or independently and then test out their work by racing and/or battling each other.
For a Minecraft party, the kids play on our own dedicated server using games we have designed.
Please note that we currently have only 2 computers at our office that can run Minecraft, so most attendees will need to bring their own laptops with Minecraft installed.
Total cost for a Minecraft party is $225 for 2 hours and up to 12 children.
- 2 slices of pizza, soda, & a small ice cream with a choice of one topping for each child at All Aboard Pizzeria on Railroad St. (within walking distance of our location). You may also bring a cake to All Aboard and the staff will be happy to serve it.
- The cost for the pizza portion (if you include it) is $100 for 8-10 guests at All Aboard (including tip) or $10 per guest including tip if the number is less than 8. Payment for both the robotics/Minecraft and All Aboard parts is made to Robotics And Beyond and we pay All Aboard. You only need to pay All Aboard if you have additional family and friends joining you at the restaurant.
You can choose any block of time between 10 am and 5 pm for the robotics/Minecraft piece. Let us know what time you decide on and whether you'd prefer to go to All Aboard before or after the robotics/Minecraft piece. We will confirm your choice of time with the restaurant, as well. So, for example, you could choose to do lunch with the kids at All Aboard at noon and then come to Robotics And Beyond right after, or you could choose to come to us first, and then head over for pizza. Your choice! Once you provide us with the times that work best for you, we'll send you a final email confirmation, including a reminder to mail us a check for payment and the total amount.
We need to know number of guests, gluten or other allergies of all kids, favorite color of birthday child, time arriving at R&B, and whether you'd like to have the robotics party or pizza first.
Testimonials
"Great Battlebots Party! We had a BattleBots birthday party for our son's 10th. There were 9 boys, with an age range from 6 to 12. Every one of them got into it--some as part of the planned activity, some just building with the Legos that are used to add on to the Mindstorms-based robots. First the teams added on to the basic robots, then they tested them, adjusting parts and that didn't work and learning how to change the basic programming. After some one-on-one battles, everyone put their battlebots into the arena and had a couple of big battles. Everyone was having such a good time we ended up extending the party by about 1/2 hour. This was a great party!"
Party videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI6m5DV9jwI&feature=youtu.be