Summer STEM Explorers Design Club- Ongoing Class

*** Summer version of the popular STEM Explorers Design Club*** Want your child to have an excellent base in all things STEM? Each week is an incredible class and exciting opportunities to learn, think, engineer, and invent! Each class is different, covering subjects like physics, engineering, space, architecture, biology, chemistry, mathematics, and much more. Each class will begin with a lesson that includes talking, discussions, photos, and/or videos. We will spend about half the class discussing the subject of the week and the last part with a hands on an experiment, design challenge, or inventing something new! Each child will use their own creativity, their imaginations, and their own engineering design process.

Classes will be kept small, 7 children, so that the teacher can interact and help each student with their experiments or designs. 

These classes are designed for children of all abilities and are inclusive for those with disabilities, including those with dyslexia, dysgraphia, and learning disabilities. Children will not be expected to read or write in class. 

We will spend a big part of class designing, experimenting, and/or creating our items. Each child will create their own things through their imaginations and their own creative design. Please make sure to have supplies for class so the children can create/experiment! This can all be created with things from around the house! Please check the supply list. These classes are part lesson and part design, create, and/or experiment. Children learn best when they can use their hands and imagination! Join us in this fun class! 

Please note, a design will not be sent to your student, they will completely design their items using the things we will talk about in class.

Week of June 5th: Students will learn about what it takes to be a rover on the moon. Then students will follow the engineering design process to design and build a rover out of various materials!
 
Week of June  12th: In this class we will talk about bridges, their architectural designs, and how to build some that are different and unique. But this is not a typical bridge challenge, we will be designing and constructing a suspension bridge, and then complete a challenge!
 
Week of June 19th: We will create our own Space suits for Mars using our imagination and items from around the house.
 
Week of June 26th: We will be discussing animal adaptations!! Animals have some weird and unique ways of adapting, protecting themselves, and even hunting. We will discuss all of this this week and then you will create a fantasy animal!
 
Week of July 10th: Children will learn how NASA used the LCROSS spacecraft to search for water on the moon.Then students will design their own spacecraft and try and see if they can hit the target as well!
 
Week of July 17th: This class introduces aerodynamics and the forces of flight. Students will apply these concepts to design and construct an airplane, that will not only fly, but also carry weight.
 
Week of July 24th: Design Our Own Home- A lesson in Architecture
 
Week of August 7th: We will learn about the NASA'S InSight, a lander sent to Mars to collect information about Mar's wobble in its orbit. By measuring the planet's wobble, it will tell scientists, and budding scientists, about what's inside the planet. In this class, we will make our own lander.