WELCOME TO STEAM DAY: FRIDAY OCTOBER 17!

A Brainy Adventure

Step into the world of a pediatric brain surgeon and discover how your brain is the ultimate control center! Check out cool brain models and get ready to build a “neuron network,” race brain signals in a relay challenge, test your mind with optical illusions, and see how your brain keeps everything running. It’s brain power like you’ve never seen before!

A day at Hogwarts

Have you ever felt a calling to Wizarding World? Maybe strange things happen around you that you just cannot explain? Well, this is just the place for you! Come here to experience a magical day at Hogwarts!  In this STEAM lab, make delicious butterbeer, write secret messages to your friends with invisible ink, make colorful fizzy fairy potions, and create a mysterious magical elixir!

Airborne Eggs

Have you ever wanted to skydive? Well, if you sign up for airborne eggs, you can make parachutes for eggs so they can skydive! In this course, you will get supplies to plan, design, and create a working parachute or other protection to stop your egg from cracking when it hits the ground.

Aviator Adventures

Learn about the marvels of flight and the adventure of aviation from BPE parent pilots! Chart a path from one continent to the next while route planning, engineering, and flying your kit plane to compete for the title of Around The World Champion in this hands-on session. Explore (and bring home) some authentic aviation gear, and winning teams will take home a special prize!

Blast OFF! Sky Dome

Climb inside our giant inflatable dome and get ready for an amazing space adventure—right at your school! You’ll see a sky full of stars, explore every planet in our solar system, and even meet legendary characters hidden in the constellations. Fly through space, watch the sky change with the seasons, and discover what the night looks like all around the world. The Sky Dome makes learning about the universe out-of-this-world fun!

Bridge the Gap

Do you like building and engineering? Or even just having tons of fun? Because if so, you should sign up for Bridge The Gap for your STEAM day! During your session, you will get supplies to plan, design, and build a bridge between two gaps. Then whoever’s bridge holds the greatest amount of weight wins! Sounds fun doesn’t it?

Cool Catapults

Are you looking for a STEAM station with more action? If so, come over to Cool Catapults where you will learn about kinetic motion, make your very own catapult, and then use it to compete with classmates for candy!

Desert Animals

Learn all about desert and rainforest animals and how these animals endure their climates! Get up close and personal with an African spurred tortoise, a bearded dragon, a tarantula, a red kangaroo, frogs, snakes, salamanders and more. (Course will feature live animals.)

Dirt Diggin’ Dessert

Cups

Do you like Oreos? Pudding? What about…gummy worms? Together we’ll explore learning about the layers of the earth while cooking up a delicious sweet treat! Everyone will get to make their own layered pudding cup, working together with friends as we dig deeper into soil-ology.

Disaster Designers: Groundbreaking Lab

Earth science meets engineering! Students will become quake-ready builders as they design and construct cardboard structures, then put them to the ultimate test on a real shake table. Will their creations stand strong—or come tumbling down?

Fingerprint Detectives

Ever wonder how real detectives solve mysteries? Join local officers to uncover the science of fingerprints! Students will learn why everyone’s prints are unique, see how investigators collect and match them, and even try their hand at detective work. Get ready to solve a mystery using the clues right at your fingertips!

From Story to STEAM

Guess who’s back? Our very own former librarian, Mrs. Barbara Nichols, is returning for a special STEAM Day adventure! She’ll share a story or two, then show students how to turn an old recycled book into a festive paper pumpkin. It’s the perfect mix of reading, art, creativity, and a little STEAM magic!

Crack the Code: Binary Bracelets

Discover the secret language of computers—binary code! In this hands-on activity, students will use colorful beads to “code” their own names into wearable binary bracelets. It’s part computer science, part craft, and all fun!  

Grasslands Animals

Learn all about grasslands animals and how these animals have adapted to living on the plains! Learn about their special adaptions and how they camouflage themselves! Learn about their unique food chain and get the chance to meet and greet with real, live grassland animals! (Course will feature live animals)

Hogwarts Elixirs

Do you like sweet and fizzy things? In this session, you’ll be making colorful potions and Hogwarts butterbeer, both delicious ways to celebrate the magic of Hogwarts. We’ll be combining art and carbonation magic to create a memorable STEAM day. Come to Hogwarts Elixirs to make awesome drinks and have fun with magic!

How to Fix a

Broken Heart

This session is going to get your HEART RACING! Get dressed for surgery in your mask, gloves and gown and join us in the operating room! Examine the parts of a real heart and learn to sew and tie knots during your operation. Hear your blood flow through your arteries and see the tools used to save people from a heart attack. It’s a real hands on experience! NOTE: Class may not be those who get queasy easily.

Know Bones About It

Let's fix some bones! Find out how to build strong bones and how to fix broken ones. Bone up on reading X-rays, first aid techniques, and leave with a real cast on your arm!

Lego Racetrack

Start your engines—it’s race day! Students will design and build their own LEGO race cars, add weights to test different designs, and send them speeding down the track. Whose car will go the fastest? Along the way, kids will discover how speed, weight, and design all play a role in building the ultimate derby car. Ready, set, LEGO!

Rainforest Animals

Learn all about desert and rainforest animals and how these animals endure their climates! Get up close and personal with an African spurred tortoise, a bearded dragon, a tarantula, a red kangaroo, frogs, snakes, salamanders and more. (Course will feature live animals.)

Re: Build Manufacturing

Today, we're going to dive into the exciting world of engineering and manufacturing! Have you ever wondered how your favorite toys are made or how the items around you are built? Well, you're in the right place! We’re going to learn with Re:Build Manufacturing, a company that has a special way of creating amazing products using something they call the Brain to Box method. This method is all about taking ideas from our brains and turning them into real things that we can see and touch.

Ready, Set, Roll!

This activity is going to be fully hands-on. You will build a marble track from peg boards, pins, toilet paper rolls, and cardboard. Your goal is to beat all of your classmates by making your marble take the longest to go down the track!

Rock and Roll Ice Cream

Do you like ice cream? If you love it like us, join our group and have some fun and sweet treats. This STEAM day, our group is welcoming you to make homemade ice cream using plastic bags, milk, and ice. Sign up now to join in on the fun!!

Rocket Science

Blast off into the world of real-life rocket science! A rocket scientist is coming to show students the amazing STEAM behind rockets—how they’re designed, built, and launched into space. Then it’s time for hands-on fun as kids build and fly their own rockets. Get ready to learn, launch, and have a blast!

Science of Snacks

Come and join us to learn the science behind tasty mixtures and solutions!  We will teach you about the STEAM connections involved in creating some very tasty treats, and you will get to rotate through 3 different stations- edible playdough, no-bake cookie dough, and color changing lemonade. *contains food* NO nuts but consider any food allergies before signing up.

Skin for the Win

Get ready to learn all about how to protect your skin from the sun and all the lumps and bumps that can appear on your body! We will see bugs that can live in your skin and explore how to remove a mole! It's a popping good time! NOTE: Class may not be those who get queasy easily.

Slime Time

Do you love slime? Well, we do too! This awesome experience includes making your very own slime! You can make your slime uniquely yours - add anything from jelly cubes to glitter. Join us on our journey of creative fun.

Spa Day Science

Do you love self-care? Then join us for some spa science! In this experience, you will learn how to make some of your favorite spa day products, like lipgloss, bath bombs, and sugar scrubs. Come to Spa Day Science!

Veterinarian Medicine

Love animals and dream of being a veterinarian? Learn about what veterinarians do and hear about interesting medical cases from our local veterinarians from Firehouse Animal Hospital! (Course MAY feature live animals.)