Four carefully designed workshops that turn kids into engineers, scientists, and creators — all in a single afternoon at your local library.
Every activity follows the engineering design process: plan, build, test, improve. Groups of 2–3 kids work as a team, guided by our student volunteers. All materials are provided and participation is completely free.
Every kid goes home with something they made themselves.
Measure, record, and graph results like real scientists.
Change one variable, test again — the engineering way.
Friendly challenges to see whose design performs the best!
Each workshop covers all five STEAM disciplines and is designed for small groups with a student volunteer facilitator.
Build a rubber band-powered launcher that launches a paper airplane across the room. Explore potential and kinetic energy, aerodynamics, and the science of flight. Compete to see whose plane flies farthest!
Full Activity Details →Design and build your very own marble maze using cardboard, straws, and craft materials. Explore gravity, friction, and engineering design while creating a themed maze — space, jungle, candy land — that you take home!
Full Activity Details →Design, decorate, and test a balloon-powered car, then race to see whose goes farthest. Learn about Newton's 3rd Law — thrust, friction, and momentum — through iterative hands-on engineering and creative car design.
Full Activity Details →Engineer the strongest paper bridge that can hold the most weight without collapsing! Learn about structural forces — tension, compression, and load distribution — and compete to hold the most coins or washers.
Full Activity Details →The STEAM Team brings all materials and facilitators. Libraries and schools simply provide a space and eager young minds.
Paper, cardboard, tape, rubber bands, craft sticks, balloons — everything kids need to build and create.
Enthusiastic high school volunteers who guide activities, answer questions, and keep energy high.
Fully designed activity plans with STEAM connections, safety tips, and extension challenges.
Every kid takes home the thing they built — a marble maze, a balloon car, or a paper airplane launcher.