Curriculum Overview
Ages 3-5
🛠️ Little Builders:
Simple Machines
This course introduces young learners to simple machines through playful, hands-on activities, stories, and sensory exploration, embedding the engineering design process.
💻 Tiny Coders:
Code & Play
This course introduces foundational coding concepts to children aged 3-5 through hands-on, off-screen activities. Instruction is play-based, multi-sensory methods to teach sequencing, loops, events, and problem-solving in an inclusive, engaging way.
🧱 Little Engineers: Building Big Ideas
This course focuses on construction and engineering, teaching young learners about building strong, stable structures while incorporating simple machines (e.g., levers, ramps) from Little Builders and Simple Machines.
🤖 Little Robo Explorers: Intro to Robotics
This course introduces 3-5-year-olds to robotics through playful, sensory-rich activities, focusing on robot parts (e.g., wheels, arms, lights), cause-and-effect, and basic motion, while reinforcing simple machines (e.g., wheels, levers).
🚗 Tiny Inventors:
Make It Move
This course focuses on motion and mechanisms, teaching young learners how things move (e.g., spin, slide, bounce) using simple machines (e.g., wheels, ramps, levers) from Little Builders and Simple Machines and introducing basic physics concepts like push/pull and gravity.
🔬 Little Scientists: Explore & Discover
This course focuses on scientific exploration, introducing young learners to basic science concepts (e.g., properties of materials, sinking/floating, magnets) through simple experiments and the scientific method.
Ages 6-10
🛠️ Tech Tinkerers – Deconstruct & Discover
Take apart old electronics to see what makes them tick! Learn about circuit boards, processors, and the tech behind everyday tools.
🤖 Robo Builders:
Intro to Robotics
Learners use beginner-friendly robot kits to understand motors, sensors, and structural design. It’s a hands-on, build-it-yourself course with real-world robot challenges.
🧲 Magnetic Maniacs: Invisible Forces
Investigate the science of attraction and repulsion while experimenting with magnetic fields, floating trains, and magnetic mazes.
⚙️ Machine Makers: Exploring Simple Machines
Kids dive into pulleys, levers, and gears to understand the building blocks of mechanical engineering. Projects encourage experimentation and problem-solving using real tools and materials.
🔬 Super Scientists: Explore & Discover
Young scientists explore biology, chemistry, and physics through messy, interactive experiments that make science unforgettable. This course builds observation skills and introduces the scientific method in a fun, accessible way.
🎬 Game Makers:
Build & Code Your Own Game
Turn play into programming by designing, building, and testing original games using kid-friendly software.
🔧 Inventors Unite: Mechanics of Motion
From friction and force to motion and momentum, students apply physics concepts to design and test their own contraptions. Perfect for future inventors and curious tinkerers!
💻 Code Creators:
Coding with Robots
Using VEX IQ and block-based coding, students explore loops, sequences, and sensor integration to program robot behavior. A creative coding course that builds logical thinking and digital literacy.
🧱 Edgy Engineers: Building Big Ideas
This course encourages imagination and engineering design thinking using blocks, recycled materials, and construction challenges that foster spatial awareness and planning skills.