Discover how apps work on your phone or iPad and learn how to make your own. In this no-experience-required course, we will make fun, creative apps for Android phones and tablets using MIT App Inventor software. We will also explore wireless communication by building custom bluetooth hardware controllers and readouts for our apps.

Let’s get creative with electricity! In this hands-on electronics course, gain experience creating your own electronics. Design custom light-up greeting cards, electric games, mazes, and even musical instruments. Each day consists of a circuitry lesson and a hands-on project, using components like lights, buzzers, switches, motors, and sensors.

Buckle up for an epic adventure as you explore the world of vehicles with tens of thousands of LEGO parts. Build and design fast, furious, and fantastic machines that race across land, sail on water, and soar through the skies. Learn about the engineering and design principles behind motors and gears as you take your creativity for a spin.

Have fun doing creative hands-on experiments that go beyond what you would learn in school. We’ll dabble in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Focus on things that fly by constructing paper helicopters, launching straw rockets, and participating in a paper airplane challenge. Build a marble maze, a spaghetti tower, and more. Do chemistry experiments, explore electricity, and get “attracted” to magnetism, then make a flip book about our experiments to take home and share.

Form your own architectural firm and start imagining the skyscraper of your dreams. From the mathematical calculations every good architect must make to the history of how the elevator revolutionized Manhattan, you’ll learn about key elements of architectural design and engineering. Create a stunning blueprint that considers sustainability, transportation, and green spaces. Then bring your vision to life with a LEGO model. Present your architectural masterpiece to your peers and showcase why your tower will be the defining structure of the 21st century.

Become a part of a Minecraft community and help create a spectacular city for future residents. Build, budget, and furnish your dream home, launch a marketing campaign for your own business, and shape the city’s future as a council member—your vote truly matters! You’ll discover how math, economics, and community-building drive urban success, all while having a blast in the Minecraft world.

Imagination meets engineering in this hands-on design workshop. Create and build contraptions like multilevel marble mazes, Rube Goldberg-style devices, and safety capsules to protect an egg. Test, refine, and experiment with cardboard, modeling materials, and everyday objects while thinking like an inventor. There’s also time for open-ended free builds, giving you space to bring your own ideas to life.

Bring your favorite sports to life, from the basketball court to the sandy beach, in an action-packed LEGO adventure. Spend the day designing awesome stadiums, engineering machines that mimic real sports moves, and creating exciting games to play solo or with friends. Together, you’ll combine creativity and teamwork to design, build, and compete, making every moment a winning play.

Unearth the awesome world beneath your feet as you discover rocks, fossils, minerals, and more. Crack open real geodes, take a close look at unusual specimens, and grow sparkling crystals. Bring a favorite rock or fossil to share on show-and-tell day, take virtual field trips to museums and famous dig sites, and create your own fossil imprints—now that’s geology that truly rocks!

Bring science and engineering to life through hands-on experiments and challenges. Younger students will investigate chemical reactions with magic milk and elephant toothpaste, explore balance and design with robots, and test buoyancy by crafting aluminum boats. Older children will uncover the unique properties of oobleck, tackle physics concepts in the egg drop and paper airplane challenges, and engage in other STEM activities. Each experiment inspires problem-solving, fosters critical thinking, and nurtures a lifelong love for discovery.

This exciting fusion of art and mathematics will ignite your creativity and challenge your problem-solving skills. Activities will include making large-scale cartoon dilations, designing geometric tangrams, exploring repeated patterned tessellations inspired by M.C. Escher, and crafting intricate curves from segments through string art. Whether you choose to experiment with all the projects or focus on perfecting one detailed piece, you’ll discover how math and art can come together in surprising ways.

Explore the weird and wacky world of brains. From squids with doughnut-shaped brains to spiders whose brains fill most of their bodies, and octopus brains that extend into their arms, discover how different types of animal brains control movement, senses, and behavior. Use what you learn to design a Frankenstein-style creature with a brain you build for unique abilities. Research, plan, sculpt, and bring your wild creation to life while applying real neuroscience concepts.