Current Workshops
Ancient Egyptian Archaeology
Step back in time as you become an Archaeologist and explore the fascinating world of Ancient Egypt through STEAM. Excavate artifacts from a pyramid and keep the treasures inside. Learn about the importance of ancient Egyptian culture, create your own Pharaoh's Headdress, and explore fossils and art. Dig into the fun of exploring Ancient Egypt!
Arcade Electronics & Game-atorium
Do you like to play games, or work with electronics, cards, and dice to create and play your own games? Work with our electronics kits to learn about circuits and energy. Program a spinning light to display different sayings, play games, and make different sounds. Play group games, card games, board games, and make your very own original
board, dice, or card game.
Build-A-Thon
This workshop is all about building. Learn the basics of the Engineering Design Process by using your own building kit to keep at the end of the week. Use our build kits to create new constructions and challenges each day. Invent and construct your own design using cardboard and other materials while learning to use basic tools.
Chemistry Creations
Become a chemist and a creator as you discover hands-on science fun! You will explore the world of Chemistry while creating fun things to take home each day. Learn about matter, chemicals, and reactions; watch demonstrations and create your own experiments; and use the Scientific Method to make some science fun!
Color & Light Odyssey
Dive into the fascinating world of physics, color and visible light through hands-on experiments and art. Explore how materials interact with light; create mesmerizing shadows, reflections and refractions; and use paint and other mediums to investigate color. Join the Odyssey to unleash your inner scientist and artist!
Creative Engineering: Imagination & Exploration
Ready to use your imagination to design, build, and play? Join us and become a Creative Engineer! Work with a 3-D construction kit that is yours to keep at the end of the week. Design and build simple or complex models of vehicles, robots,creatures, and buildings. Use our Build Kits to create as YOU want to. Build the fun into your creations either from directions or your own imagination.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
A crime has been committed - will you be the Science Sleuth to solve it? Have fun learning about forensics,observation, and crime lab chemistry while you perform different experiments. Search for evidence, gather clues, and discover how you can use science to solve a mystery. Use your science skills to have fun solving the crime of the century!
Dino Dig Fossil Hunt
Explore ideas and methods of Archeology, Paleontology, and Geology and excavate the simulated bones of a model
dinosaur! Assemble the fossil from your own dig to complete a 3-dimensional model of a dinosaur to take home.
Investigate geologic time and fossil charts to compare living things then and now, and identify 20-million-year-old
shark teeth and other fossils. See, hold, and identify items from our rock and mineral collections, and design your very own dinosaurs based on what we observe from our exploration.
Electrifying Fun!
Learning about electronics is a snap using our safe, kid-friendly electronics kits. Use our electronic kits to have fun
transforming electrical energy into light, motion, and sound. Build a musical doorbell, burglar alarm, or even a radio!
This is a perfect program for emerging engineers, allows plenty of time for tinkering, and discussions, and includes
your own circuit kit to take home.
Mega Cyborg Hand
Learn about engineering, robotics, and the power of water and pressure by building your own working giant hydraulic cyborg hand. Each day builds on the prior day's work, using the Engineering Design Process to create awearable hydraulic hand. Put it on to become a temporary cyborg!
Robot Factory
Build a series of wacky, motorized robots with your very own mechanical engineering kit. Use the Engineering Design Process to engineer your own designs, then enter your robots into different contests and challenges! Prepare for Battle Bots and the Robot Royale!
Rube Goldberg Machines
A Rube Goldberg Machine is a series of chain reactions that make a simple task difficult and often humorous. This workshop presents six simple machines: lever, wedge, wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, and screw. Using these simple machines, children design and build a working Rube Goldberg Machine to complete a simple task in the most complicated and silly way possible.
Slimescapades!
Get ready to get slimy with this super slime-tastic chemistry workshop! Make a new slime every day, do experiments to create polymers and other materials, and have a blast with chemical reactions. Come join the messy, slimy side of science fun!
8-in-1 Solar Robot
Build unique robots that are powered by the sun batteries not required! Using a compact solar panel, these cool little
bots harness energy from the sun to power an electric motor to get moving. Build a drummer robot that marches along, beating a drum; an armadillo robot that does somersaults; a solar bug that crawls on six legs, and more!. Use our free build and robotics kits to create your own designs. Come join us for some robot fun!
Space Robot: Mission To Mars
Let imagination take flight with this solar-powered workshop that explores Mars, our Solar System, and space travel! Mission Specialists use their very own Solar Space Fleet kit to create different moving models that use three different interchangeable energy sources: solar energy, rechargeable battery, or battery pack. View 3-D images of Mars' surface, launch paper rockets, and fly a demo of the Ingenuity helicopter. Time to blast off for fun!
Up, Up, & Away!
This workshop explores things that are used to move through the air, like airplanes, bridges, rockets, and helicopters.
Build your own rubber band-powered model airplane, solar powered helicopters, and paper rockets. Learn simpleengineering skills about aviation and bridge-building, then use your skills to build a bridge and try-out our flying drones. It's time to fly away with fun!
Volcano Tour
Enjoy an explosively fun exploration of geology, physics and chemistry as you become a Junior Volcanologist! Build your own working volcano and see examples of huge volcanic eruptions. Learn about, excavate, and sort minerals and fossils to keep, and recreate the forces and chemistry at work in the fascinating world of volcanoes.
Wizardry School of Science
Join in the escapades of your favorite magical characters while discovering the science behind the magic in this fun,
chemistry and physics based workshop. Make edible wands, brew fantastic potions, and create "magical” chemical
reactions as you earn your Wizardry of Science diploma! Watch a mirage mysteriously appear, experiment with color
and light, and see who knows the most fun facts about Wizarding. Are you a Science Wizard? Come and find out!
Bubbles Bonanza
Discover the science behind the enchanting world of bubbles! In this workshop, explore surface tension, bubble geometry, and create your own bubble art. Engineer unique bubble wands, tackle fun challenges, and uncover the fascinating science behind these shimmering spheres.
Creative Constructions
Come build the day away with us as we explore different engineering and building kits, use electronics boards to
program sounds, games, and lights, and learn about and use the Engineering Design Process to build our own
creations. This workshop includes a new STEM-certified building and construction set for each child to use and take
home.
STEAM Sampler
This workshop provides an introduction to STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) topics through a sampler of engaging hands-on activities. Children will be introduced to concepts of physics, chemistry, electronics, engineering, art, and mathematics throughout the workshop. Each session includes creating several items using science, for children to keep at the end.
Vending Machine Mechanics
Explore lessons in physics, math, and mechanical engineering as you build and play with your own vending machine. Learn about gears and other simple machines, gravity, forces, motion, and collisions.
Wind Bots
Learn about wind as a power-generating technology as you build six awesome bots that move without any batteries
or electricity. A big-wheel tricycle, quadruped, soaring machine, drilling monster, walking robot, and even a windpowered yacht. Build a hand-powered wind generator to make them all go! As you build and experiment, you will
learn about how gears transmit power and torque.
*Customizable Workshops*
We can modify any workshop to fit shorter or longer durations, to meet the needs of older or younger groups, and modify workshops to align with and support specific in-school activities. Give us a call or drop us an email with your needs and we will see what we can do for you.