WELCOME TO STEAM DAY: FRIDAY OCTOBER 16!

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

What if your robot could do your chores? In this action-packed science session, you’ll use AI programming to teach a personal robot how to tackle everyday tasks--look for information, make decisions, take action! Then put your skills to the test with a remote-control robot! Serious robot-powered fun.

Calling all future architects and builders! Have you ever wondered how a BIG idea turns into a real building? Take on a surprise design challenge, develop your big idea, and then bring it to life. Will your creation stand tall, stay strong, and pass the ultimate test? There’s only one way to find out! 

Climb inside our giant inflatable dome and get ready for an amazing space adventure! 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 and discover what the night looks like all around the world!

Use your brain to build engineer planes and catapults! Face off in an epic mini game to test who has the best skills and crown a winner. Come up with the best way to make the paper airplanes and customize your own! Follow our top-notch catapult formula to ensure the best and farthest throwing catapults!

Calling all witches and wizards—your Hogwarts adventure awaits! Create a colorful bubbling cauldron and discover the REAL science behind the magic! Experiment with chemical reactions and watch ingredients transform before your eyes. Grab your wand and get ready—Hogwarts School of Wizardry! 

Mix your own icing and fondant while learning about the color wheel before decorating cupcakes to your heart’s desire! Learn about the basics of color, food, art, and how they combine. Let your creativity run free with numerous modes of decorating and all kinds of colors!

Do you like chocolate cake and chemical reactions? In this session, you will learn about the science behind baking. You’ll be baking and decorating your own CREEPY cake, a delicious and exciting way to celebrate Halloween while learning! Come to Creepy Cakes to create a graveyard worth eating!

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

Think math is just numbers on a page? Think again! Discover the fun side of math through hands-on challenges, puzzles, and games. Put your problem-solving skills to the test and see how math shows up in surprising ways all around us. Come ready to think, play, and discover why math really can be Easy as Pi!

Do you like skydiving? Are you a mechanical mastermind? Then this is the best place for you! In this session, you will build a contraption to protect your egg from a high fall! The only rule is: don’t crack your egg!

Learn all about grasslands animals and how they 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)

This session is going to get your HEART RACING! Dress for surgery in your mask, gloves and gown; join us in surgery! Examine parts of a real heart; learn to sew and tie knots during your operation; and hear your blood flow through your arteries. NOTE: Might not be best if you get queasy easily.

Are you excited for an amazing, ice cream filled STEAM Day? Do you like to learn how the milk, salt, and ice react together to make delicious ice cream? Well in this session we’re going to make homemade ice cream where you can add your own flavor! Make a delicious treat the fun, science-y way!

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!

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

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: crack the code! Step into the world of computer programming as you learn how coders use logic, creativity, and problem-solving to make technology work. Do coding challenges, solve puzzles, and put your skills to the test in your top-secret mission. 

Explore designing and building to expand your imagination with Mission Marshmallow. Using mini marshmallows and toothpicks, you’ll compete to build the tallest tower ever!!! If you build the tallest and sturdiest (strongest) tower, be prepared for a DELICIOUS prize. See you at the top!

Learn all about rainforest animals and how these animals endure their climates! Get up close and personal with an giant millipede, python snake and more. (Course will feature live animals.)

How are your favorite toys made? 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…taking ideas from our brains and turning them into real things that we can see and touch!

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!

Get ready to turn up the science! Join Ms. Jones to discover what makes music move—from sound waves and vibrations to rhythm, pitch, and volume. Put the science to the test with a Silent Disco, where you’ll grab a pair of headphones, hit the dance floor, and experience sound in a whole new way!

Scrumptious Slime: Everyone loves making stretchy, sticky slime- what if you could eat it? In this experiment, you get to make and play with slime, but eat it at the end too! Join this group for some gooey, sweet fun! 

It’s SLIME TIME! Come join us to get our hands a little messy and make your very own slime! Add color, beads, and other charms to make yours the coolest in the school. You can stretch, squeeze and play with your slime and enjoy it all day long! Don’t miss out on all the fun!

Customize a perfume and find a scent that matches you! At Spa Day Science you will combine science and art to make your scent. Mix, measure, layer, and decorate different spa products, like sugar scrubs and body sprays…and learn about homogeneous mixtures. Join us at Spa Day Science!

What makes a squishy so… SQUISHY?! Dive into the science behind everyone’s favorite squeeze toys and discover how different materials, textures, and shapes create the perfect squish. Learn how they are made and create your very own squishy to take home! Explore the seriously fun science of squish!

Do you like fizzy explosions and tons of fun? We’ll compare the power of two different types of bottle rockets and discover which one can fly farther! You’ll engineer your own rocket and put it to the test with an explosive takeoff. Get ready to build, launch, and have some serious rocket fun!

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.)