Five Options

Hands-On STEAM Learning

Amazing Animals

Explore the natural world and discover what makes animals so amazing through hands-on experiences and creative play.    

• Scope It Out – Take a look through a microscope to see what makes up different plants and animals.
• Spectacular Specimens – Get up close and personal with the animal world by touching and observing skulls, pelts, and preserved insects.
• Up-cycled Animal Homes – Reuse everyday materials to create birdhouses, baths, feeders, or other spaces for nature’s critters.

Art+

Students and families will express their creativity as they engage with art through architecture, science, and math.   

• Art + Architecture – Design structurally-sound cardboard architecture and add it to a collective cityscape.
• Art + Science – Use scientific tools to make observations of fossils, plants, and animal skulls and draw what you discover.
• Art + Math – Create mathematical art using shapes and geometric patterns.

Getting Loud

Conduct different experiments to determine what causes sound and how sound can travel to our ears. 

• DIY Instrument – Let’s start a band! Create a simple musical instrument and explore the properties of sound.
• Unusual Instruments – Experiment with unique instruments and play your favorite tune.
• Dancing Laser –  Join our dance party and observe how music can create a laser light show.

Marvelous Magnets

Explore the properties of magnets through building, investigating, and observing magnets and magnetic forces.

• Magnetic Models – Use washers to create a statue and investigate how they are sticking together!
• Measuring A Magnet’s Might – Do magnets have different strengths? Can we get our magnet car to move without touching it? Can you pick up a magnet fish with a fishing pole? Come and make observations about a magnet’s magnetic field!
• Mysterious Matter Observation – What is this stuff? Investigate how different magnets have different effects on a mysterious magnetic substance.

Science of Structures

Engage in different engineering challenges to construct buildings, forts, and arches as they explore the science behind creating stable and balanced structures. 

• Strong Structures – Build and design your own city. Work with others to engineer the tallest buildings you can!
• Play Like Engineers – Let’s play! Exercise your engineering skills and design a play fort with your friends.
• Pancake Arch Building – Discover the key to constructing your own arch.