Visit the library every Tuesday for an hour of fun building with LEGO® Bricks! Explore your creativity and utilize your engineering skills to build towers, spaceships, forts, and more! This event is recommended for children 5 and older. Small LEGO® pieces can be choking hazards for younger children. ADA Accommodation Requests
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Build towers, spaceships, forts and more with LEGO® bricks at Seven Trees library each Tuesday for ages 5–12.
Build towers, spaceships, forts and more with LEGO® bricks at Seven Trees library each Tuesday for ages 5–12.
Build towers, spaceships, forts and more with LEGO® bricks at Seven Trees library each Tuesday for ages 5–12.
Grab and Go STEM Kit: Dreamcatchers (Edenvale Teen Room, San Jose) — Explore geometric patterns blending Native American culture and math with ready-made kits, materials included, ages 12–18.
Wee Play Dates: Wee Build (Educational Park, San Jose) — Winter playdate for children ages 5 and under and caregivers, free, no registration required.
Explore 70 years of LGBTQ+ publications—from early Gay Pride flyers to AIDS-era newsletters and debates on marriage, employment, and military service—at King Library.
Volunteer Homework Coach Delaney assists K‑5 students with assigned homework in the King Library Children’s Room, free, for ages 5–12.
The Science of Soap: Floating Drawing & Pepper Experiment — participants create floating drawings and explore soap’s cleaning properties using pepper adhesion and repulsion, free for ages 5–12. Logic Games — individuals or teams solve a variety of logic puzzles, free for ages 5–12. Marble Run Fun — participants harness gravity to design and build their own marble runs, free for ages 5–12. Lego Engineering Challenge — participants brainstorm, build, redesign, and solve problems with Lego® bricks, free for ages 5–12. Spike Robotics Code Quest — participants code a pre‑built Lego Spike robot to navigate and collect components using block‑based language, free for ages 5–12. Mental Math: Multiplication — participants practice multiplication skills, linking multiplication to addition concepts, free for ages 5–12. Wind Turbine Engineering — participants build working wind turbines from household items, test designs, and observe variable impacts, free for ages 5–12. Paper Rockets — participants learn propulsion basics then construct rockets that fly the farthest, free for ages 5–12. Properties of Water — participants explore cohesion, adhesion, and surface tension through simple activities, free for ages 5–12. Learn About Aerodynamics Through Paper Planes — participants build various paper planes and test design impacts in interactive experiments, free for ages 5–12. Ozobot Maze Runner — participants program Ozobots to navigate mazes using simple color codes, free for ages 5–12. Logic Games — individuals or teams solve a variety of logic puzzles, free for ages 5–12. Let's Build Parachutes — participants construct parachutes of different shapes and materials, then observe design effects during load drops, free for ages 5–12. Lego Engineering Challenge — participants brainstorm, build, redesign, and solve problems with Lego® bricks, free for ages 5–12.
Volunteer tech mentors offer assistance with printing, Word, Excel, email setup, security tips, and SJPL eResources at King Library’s 3rd‑floor service desk, free, for ages 18 and up.
Virtual ELL Conversation Club (San José Public Library) — Volunteer instructor leads adult learners in English speaking, listening, vocabulary and current‑event discussions via Zoom; free, ages 18+.
Farmers' market on the Kaiser Permanente San Jose medical campus offers berries, stone fruit, potatoes, corn, bakery items, dumplings, tamales and falafel.
Lily Qi discusses her memoir Elected American: From Red China to Blue Maryland at a CHSA book talk with complimentary lunch buffet, $15 admission, $40 with book copy.
How to Train Your Dragon Jr. (Montgomery Theater, San Jose) — Musical adventure with score, ensemble portraying Hiccup and Toothless, part of CMT San Jose's Junior Talents program.
Joyce Ellington librarian leads outdoor storytime with books, songs, movement activities and bubbles at Backesto Park’s grassy corner of Empire and 13th, free for ages 10 and under.
One-on-one virtual mock interview with a SJPL Business & Career Librarian, answering behavioral questions and receiving feedback, free, ages 12+.
