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The two competitive VEX robotics teams post monthly fees: VEX IQ (ages 7–10) is $399/month and VEX V5 (ages 11–14) is $579/month, each running August–April, plus a nonrefundable $50 registration fee. Both include team registration, materials, robot kit and software access, and entry fees for three competitions. In August the campus advertised founding-team rates on its Facebook page — $329/month for VEX IQ and $479/month for V5, a saving of $70 and $100 a month — but the enrollment page now lists only the posted rates, so ask whether founding pricing is still open.
  • The two competitive VEX robotics teams post monthly fees: VEX IQ (ages 7–10) is $399/month and VEX V5 (ages 11–14) is $579/month, each running August–April, plus a nonrefundable $50 registration fee. Both include team registration, materials, robot kit and software access, and entry fees for three competitions. In August the campus advertised founding-team rates on its Facebook page — $329/month for VEX IQ and $479/month for V5, a saving of $70 and $100 a month — but the enrollment page now lists only the posted rates, so ask whether founding pricing is still open.
  • Summer camp prices on the last posted chart (a prior season) run from $149 for a one-day camp to $599 for most full-day weeks and $999 for a bundle week, and the camp FAQ lists a separate up-to schedule — confirm current rates.
  • The eight-week Fall Tech Clubs are $429 with no enrollment fee.
  • Pricing for the Belt Program and weekly classes is not posted online — contact the campus or schedule a tour.
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STEM and coding classes for kids ages 4–18, starting with Pre-K classes that 4–5-year-olds attend with a parent; campus hours are Tuesday–Saturday and a free trial class is available.

Schedule

STEM and coding classes for kids ages 4–18, starting with Pre-K classes that 4–5-year-olds attend with a parent; campus hours are Tuesday–Saturday and a free trial class is available.

  • Belt Program — the flagship after-school track, a nine-month leveled curriculum (Jr. STEAM Belt for ages 5–7, then Foundation, White, and higher belts).
  • AI Studio — a flexible-enrollment, AI-guided learning path students can join almost any time.
  • Two competitive VEX robotics teams run a nine-month season, 24 August 2026 to 30 April 2027: VEX IQ for ages 7–10 (the VEX IQ game is set for grades 4–8), meeting Fridays 5–7 pm and Saturdays 10 am–12 pm, and VEX V5 for ages 11–14 (grades 6–12), meeting Thursdays 5–7 pm and Saturdays from 12 pm. Teams are kept to four to six students and meet twice a week in two-hour sessions, four hours of instruction a week, with team registration, materials, kit and software access and entry fees for three competitions included.
  • Summer and school-holiday STEM camps run in full- and half-day options.
  • Fall Tech Clubs: eight-week, small-group (4–10 students) project clubs in YouTube Creator or Creative Lab: 3D Printing for ages 7–12, meeting Wednesday or Thursday 5–7 pm, October 21 to December 17, 2026, with Thanksgiving week off.
  • A College Accelerator Program runs in a hybrid format, combining in-person sessions with online work; in September 2026 the campus's social posts invited applications for a founding cohort, which may start as early as October once at least four students enroll.
  • The campus also hosts Bluebonnet Debate's weekly middle-school debate classes for grades 6–8, on Tuesdays from September 1 through November 17. That program is Bluebonnet's rather than iCode's — you register through bluebonnetdebate.com — and iCode families are offered a discount on fall enrollment.
Camps
Dates

A STEM camp chart is posted with about fifteen camps — mostly one-week sessions plus at least one single-day option — spanning ages 5 to 17 depending on the camp, and the page says more camps are available on request. The chart prints no year and its posted weeks have concluded, so it carries a prior season's schedule rather than the current one. Camps recur through the summer and over school holidays, including Spring Break. The campus also runs Fall Break STEM camps, posted on its social pages: in 2026 these were one-day robotics (Battle of the Bots) and 3D-printing camps and a two-day YouTube Creator camp, 9 AM–4 PM for ages 7–14. Confirm the current season's camps and dates with the campus.

Cost

The last posted camp chart (no year printed, a prior season) lists camps from $149 for a one-day session and $329 for a half-day week up to $599 for most full-day weeks and $999 for a bundle week; the same page's FAQ separately says 5-day full-day camps run up to $499, 5-day half-day camps up to $249, 3-day camps $299 and 1-day camps $99. Its most recent posted holiday camps (Fall Break 2026, on the campus's social pages) were $109 for a one-day camp and $219 for the two-day YouTube Creator camp. Confirm current camp pricing with the campus.

Our take

Plenty of places will teach a kid to code; iCode's difference is the ladder it puts underneath that. The after-school Belt Program moves students through a nine-month leveled curriculum — earning belts as they go, the way a martial-arts school does — and for kids who catch the bug, there's a genuine competitive path at the top: two VEX robotics teams that design, build, and drive a competition robot across a full August-to-April season and enter real tournaments.

It's built for a wide age span and a range of intensity. A five-year-old can start in the Jr. STEAM Belt building dexterity and creativity; a middle-schooler ready for a serious challenge can commit to a robotics team with fixed weeknight practices and a season's worth of build time. The rooms are stocked with the hardware kids want to get their hands on — gaming computers, 3D printers, robots, drones — and the instruction is gamified to keep them engaged rather than lectured at. If your child wants to tinker and build and maybe compete, it fits; if you're looking for academic tutoring or homework help, that's not what this is.

The low-risk way in is the free trial class — a taught lesson plus a hands-on activity — which tells you fast whether your kid lights up or shrugs.

Local Tips

iCode's campus is on East Southlake Boulevard. It runs Tuesday through Saturday and is closed Mondays and Sundays, so plan around that — and note the robotics teams practice on fixed weeknights (VEX IQ Fridays plus Saturday mornings, VEX V5 Thursdays plus Saturday afternoons), which is a real weekly commitment from late summer through spring, not a drop-in. Newcomers should use the free trial class as the on-ramp rather than committing to a belt or team sight-unseen. The campus also hosts birthday parties and Girl Scout STEM-badge sessions, and rents classroom space.

Credentials

iCode Southlake is a STEM education campus (franchise location #108); its site does not name an individual owner or lead instructor. Classes are instructor-led and follow iCode's proprietary STEM curriculum, developed and continually updated by the company's team of computer scientists, software architects, and instructional designers, and taught with lab hardware including gaming computers, 3D printers, robotics kits, and drones. The Belt Program pairs each lesson with a reinforcing hands-on activity and sends parents regular progress reports; the VEX robotics teams add structured coaching from instructors while students own the design, build, and competition work.

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