Creative Sparks Enrichment Lab Sessions and Summer Camps
STEAM LEARNING
Coding. Robotics. Junior CEOs.
Each STEAM Learning session begins with Social Emotional Learning, using stories or scenarios to help children navigate emotions, empathy, and goal-setting. A specific soft skill is identified and woven throughout the session to reinforce the learning. Students tackle general and topic-related open-ended projects and “Impossible Challenges” that stretch their creativity — both individually and in teams — before concluding the session by presenting their work to the group.
CODING: Spark early interest in your child | ||
| CODING Topics | Why It Matters | Focus |
| ScratchJr Coding (ages 5–7) | Builds knowledge concepts like Sequencing, casuality applicable everywhere. | Start unplugged to understand core concepts. Then use icon-based coding block for simple games. |
| Scratch Coding (ages 8–10) | Building computational thinking skills. | Uses text-based, vertical blocks. Includes complex concepts like variables, loops, logic, and sensors for more complex games. |
| Beginner Python (ages 8–10) | Builds computational thinking, logical reasoning, and problem-solving skills | Focus on basic syntax, print statements, variables, and simple loops using interactive, visual tools like Turtle graphics or Python-based block builders. |
ScratchJr
Ages 5-7
ScratchJr is an introductory programming language that enables young children (ages 5–7) to create their own interactive stories and games. Children snap together graphical programming blocks to make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. Studies show that early coding helps young children develop knowledge structures like sequencing and causality, while building critical STEM problem-solving skills.
In this unique lab, children start with unplugged activities to understand coding basics, then bring their ideas to life on tablets. By the end, each child creates and shares their own interactive project.
Benefits include learning sequencing, if/then, cause/effect, problem solving, creativity for design, teamwork for learning, and developing confidence.
Scratch Intermediate
Ages 8-10
Scratch is the world’s largest coding platform for children, designed to introduce kids ages 8 and up to the fundamentals of programming through creative expression. Instead of writing complex syntax, children snap together colorful coding blocks to create interactive stories, games, and animations.
In this unique lab, students move beyond simple tutorials to design and create their own original projects. They learn to think like game designers, animators, and storytellers — all while building computational thinking skills that translate across subjects.
Benefits include promoting computational thinking, breaking down complex problems, creativity for design, persistence for debugging, collaboration with peers, and confidence in representing their work.
Python: Beginner
Ages 8-10
ROBOTICS: Links passive play blocks to “live” creative builds | ||
| ROBOTICS Topics | Why It Matters | Focus |
| Lego Robotics Early (ages 5–7) | Imaginative play to create early interest in engineering. | Basic mechanics and simple, visual block-based coding using LEGO Education Spike Essential gear, motor, and sensor projects. |
| Lego Robotics Intermediate (ages 8–10) | Builds technical and social resilience, critical thinking. | Introduces more complex sensors, structural engineering, and logic-based programming with Spike Prime. |
| Lego Robotics Advanced (ages 8–10) | Coding skills and critical thinking while building teamwork. | Involves building advanced robots, utilizing Python or advanced block coding, and participating in competitions like the FIRST LEGO League Challenge. |
RoboQuest LEGO Robotics
Beginners for Ages 5-7
Intermediate for Ages 8-10
RoboQuest LEGO Robotics combines the world-renowned building system with advanced sensors and motors. In this lab, students move beyond simple bricks to explore the fundamentals of engineering, mechanics, and computational thinking. They design, build, and code robots that can react to their environment, solve complex challenges, and execute precise movements.
Our lab is designed to bridge the gap between playing with bricks and understanding real-world STEM concepts. Research from LEGO Education and Tufts University shows that hands-on robotics significantly enhances spatial reasoning and collaborative problem-solving skills in elementary students.
Benefits include learning about structural engineering, spatial awareness, computational thinking, data analysis, and resilience.
RoboQuest LEGO Robotics
Advanced for Ages 8-10
JUNIOR CEOs: Ignite an interest in life’s possibilities | ||
| JUNIOR CEOs Topics | Why It Matters | Focus |
| Around the World (ages 5–7) (ages 8–10) | Builds empathy, respect, and global awareness for the world of the future. | Introduce and dive into a new country every week, exploring people, music, foods, holidays, etc. |
| Kid-preneur (ages 8–10) | Builds an entrepreneurial mindset for future success | Start small ventures like lemonade stands, craft sales, or pet-sitting to practice these skills in a real-world context. |
| Math “All Around Us” (ages 5–7) | Builds a strong, early foundation that predicts academic success. | Makes math a natural skill for life around us. |
| Money 101 (ages 8–10) | Builds essential life skills, early habits of responsibility | Introduces basic money literacy—earning, saving, and spending. |
Around the World
Ages 5-7, and Ages 7-10
Learning about diverse countries helps children build empathy, respect, and global awareness, reducing prejudice by normalizing differences in appearance, food, and traditions. It enhances cognitive flexibility, sparks creativity, improves communication skills, and fosters a positive, inclusive worldview from a young age. Children learn to see themselves as part of a larger, interconnected world, which is crucial for becoming global citizens.
Key activities like exploring music, foods, and holidays from different countries can make these lessons engaging for young minds.
Kid-preneur
Ages 8-10
Learning entrepreneurship helps young children develop essential life skills, including critical thinking, financial literacy, and resilience. It boosts confidence, fosters creativity, and teaches the value of hard work, independence, and managing failure. Early exposure prepares children to solve problems, understand money management, and cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset for future success.
Children will ideate small ventures in real-world context (like craft sales, pet-sitting, lemonade stand, etc), work as a team to plan the business model, and then together deliver a business venture. Exceptional ideas will be encouraged to consider filing for provisional patents, where we will advise the process as long as the parent supports it.
Math All Around Us
Ages 5-7
Learning math through everyday, “all-around-us” activities (like cooking, sorting laundry, or building with blocks) builds a strong, early foundation that predicts academic success, improves cognitive skills like attention and memory, and develops critical thinking. It makes abstract concepts tangible, fostering confidence, reducing math anxiety, and teaching problem-solving that is essential for life.
Benefits include boosting academic success in other subjects too, develop critical thinking and logic, boosts confidence and reduces math anxiety, and enhances cognitive development.
Read more about the research:
Money 101
Ages 8-10
Teaching kids basic money literacy — earning, saving, and spending — builds essential life skills by fostering early habits of responsibility, patience, and decision-making. Starting with simple concepts like piggy banks, allowances, and distinguishing between types of expenses prepares children for financial independence.
Key benefits include understanding needs vs. wants, developing “money sense,” avoiding debt, boosting confidence, and, over time, reducing future financial anxiety and promoting long-term financial independence. Helps in the Kid-preneur projects.