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.

Using LEGO, explore real-world concepts in physics, engineering, and architecture while building your favorite Minecraft mods, tools, and objects. Build an Iron Golem, the Nether Portal, the Ender Dragon, and more.

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.

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.

Discover how science can ignite your imagination and fuel your artistic side. Explore force and motion with spin art, harness the sun for solar prints and color changing bracelets, mix colors for rainbow inspired art, and experiment with states of matter as you make oobleck. Science can be beautiful!

Become a nature explorer as you ignite your creativity. Get outside, play, and discover local habitats through visual arts, music, and performance. Record your discoveries in your nature journal and walk away as a confident naturalist, ready to observe, interact with your surroundings, and notice the wonders in your own backyard.

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.

Build and program robots while developing basic programming, problem-solving, and teamwork skills. Grades 1-3: Learn basic programming skills and use motors, sensors, and lights to build a variety of different robots in this introductory robotics class. Grades 4-7: Learn about mechanical and software design, loops, and conditional statements as you design and construct a robot that can avoid obstacles, pick up and carry objects, and play sounds.

Unlock your creativity and become a Minecraft mastermind by engineering your own interactive escape room. Discover the secrets of redstone, Minecraft’s powerful circuit system, to build traps, locks, and hidden mechanisms. Design devious challenges and clever contraptions that will keep players guessing at every turn. Along the way, you’ll test your creations, collaborate with teammates, and fine-tune your designs—just like a professional engineer.

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.

Explore the building blocks behind AI and smart technology by designing and coding your own electronic projects. Begin with simple circuits, then create interactive, programmable devices using Arduino. Work with LEDs, speakers, motors, and sensors as you use kid-friendly programming tools to make projects respond to data and input. Strengthen problem-solving skills while gaining hands-on experience with electronics and coding.

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.

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.

Your mission: establish a colony on a Minecraft planet. To get your colony up and running, you’ll need help from the ship’s automated systems. Activate them by solving exciting puzzles that involve pattern recognition, ratios, measurement, and more. Join the adventure and plant your flag on a brand-new planet to claim it as your own. Errata: The grades for this class are supposed to be 3-5 (as shown in the at-a-glance), not 2-3 (as originally listed in the catalog)