Unlock a World of Innovation After School
We ignite children's futures through engaging after-school STEM programs that build critical thinking and problem-solving skills for real-world success. Our hands-on STEM experiences inspire the next generation of scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians, making learning fun, practical, and unforgettable.
Discovery Driven
Impact Focused
We ignite children's futures through engaging after-school STEM programs that build critical thinking and problem-solving skills for real-world success. Our hands-on STEM experiences inspire the next generation of scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians, making learning fun, practical, and unforgettable.
STEM Education
STEM is an abbreviation that stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. STEM education is designed as a transcending and interdisciplinary approach to these four classic disciplines. Instead of teaching each separately, STEM education draws on all four disciplines, creating an applied teaching method. This provides students with the opportunity to connect the classroom, community and the wider world through addressing real-world lessons, and solving them through STEM education.
Students as Persistent Problem Solvers
What kids learn is important but how well they can problem solve will determine their future. Our kids’ success in the 21st Century economy increasingly depends on their proficiencies in STEM skills of problem solving and critical thinking:
- 80% of jobs in the next decade will require technical skills
- STEM jobs are growing at two times the rate as jobs in other fields
- 15 of 20 of the fast growing U.S. jobs will require math or science skills
We’re supporting a new kind of learning where STEM, coding and core academics are no longer separate but combined for student engagment and success.
Project Based Learning
Our students apply and show their learning in interdisciplinary subject areas through computational thinking (CT) and computer science (CS) based projects. Our students apply new skills in multifaceted ways with hands-on opportunities to think critically, solve problems, and develop important academic skills like written and verbal communication, planning, research. Important meta-skills developed include self-sufficiency, teamwork, goal-setting, and internet safety and literacy.
- Simulations of real-word skills, knowledge, challenges, and phenomena
- Experiments in, and investigations of, real-world phenomena
- Creation of unique applications that allow students to engage in and practice new skills
Checkout Our Programs
After School
Our hands-on STEM programs engage students in coding, robotics, 3D design, and sustainable technology with flexible summer scheduling. Designed for small groups, they strengthen ELA and math skills while building critical thinking, soft skills, and inspiring future STEM careers. Flexible pricing options are available, with optional laptop or tablet access.
Summer Camps (including Summer Rising)
Our immersive, hands-on STEM camps spark creativity through engaging projects that also build social-emotional and executive functioning skills. Flexible full-week or single-day options help address summer learning loss while inspiring renewed interest in STEM. Programs include multiple daily projects with active play, plus scalable pricing to fit different group sizes.
Professional Development
Our professional development programs train teachers to enhance academic learning through engaging, project-based STEM using LEGO Robotics, block-based coding, and 3D design. Workshops are scheduled around your needs and include ongoing support to ensure successful classroom integration. This training empowers educators to deliver student-centered STEM experiences, with flexible models and pricing available for single-day sessions, workshops, coaching, and ongoing programs.
In School & CBO Programming
Our during-school and pop-up Makerspace experiences bring hands-on STEM learning to school days, holidays, weekends, and special events. Students rotate through engaging stations such as LEGO robotics, coding, and inventor projects, guided by our team with on-site staff support. Flexible hourly, daily, or per-station pricing makes it easy to tailor Makerspace programs to assemblies, PD days, fairs, or family events.
Family & Community Engagement
Our hands-on STEM workshop and showcase events bring families, students, and schools together through engaging, creative experiences. Designed for open houses, fairs, curriculum nights, and PTA events, these flexible programs strengthen family–school connections while showcasing your school’s commitment to STEAM learning. Interactive activity stations and STEM career design challenges spark curiosity, build confidence, and promote inclusive, early STEM exploration. Flexible event and partnership-based pricing options are available.
Excecutive functioning
Our daily projects introduce executive function and self-regulation skills that enable us to plan, focus attention, make decisions, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. These abilities propel school achievement, positive behaviors and relationships, good health, and later career success. Our approach to Executive Functioning comes from the Center for the Developing Child at Harvard University.
Social Emotional Learning
Our interactions together online build Social Emotional Learning (SEL) skills that enable us to understand and manage emotions, set goals, show empathy for others, establish positive relationships, and make responsible decisions, all within project-based learning experiences. Our approach to SEL comes from the pioneering SEL research and standards of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL).
Academic Skill-Building
Our daily projects foster skills in one or more of four academic focus areas:
engineering
- Code the Hero’s Journey in Scratch with creative storytelling
- Bring your favorite book to life by creating 3D models of characters and scenes in TinkerCAD
- Create a stop-motion movie, script and scenes by coding it in Scratch
MATH
- Create and explore geometry in both 2D and 3D settings by using TinkerCAD
- Code flashcards in Scratch to help learn your multiplication table
- Code scoreboards and speedometers for car races
- Build thermometers to track the weather
SCIENCE
- Create a 3D models of our solar system on TinkerCAD
- Create prey and predator ecosystem games in Scratch
- Create a solar power cell in Scratch
Technology
- Code the Hero’s Journey in Scratch with creative storytelling
- Create a stop-motion movie, script and scenes by coding it in Scratch
ART
- Paper-prototype designs to start drawing projects
- Paint characters and backdrops right in Scratch
- Color and shape your 3D objects using dimension, perspective, and scale