Training Our Future Scientists and Engineers For A Better Future!
For years educators have stressed that students learn better “by doing” – especially in the sciences. Students of all ages learn more science-content and skills when they engage in investigation and discovery using everyday materials and the basic equipment of science.
Our carefully designed inquiry-based lessons involve children with hands-on activities, capturing children’s natural curiosity, stimulating their interest in science, and teaching them important science topics along with critical thinking skills.
Club SciKidz Where Science and Technology Connect!
Our unique Science Club program is designed to meet the needs of children in grades K-6. Club SciKidz lessons help engage students in observation, measurement, identification of properties, and experimentation involving life, earth, and physical science concepts. The units are rigorously researched by science educators with the help of teachers and children. The results are lessons that students can enjoy and genuinely learn from.
2023-24 After School Program Description
STEAM Workshops: Engineering, Programing, Robotics, & Technology Grades K-6 All new projects. This class will be conducted in the Fall and Spring of 2023-24. Projects are different for each semester through the year and do not repeat.
- Pokémon Professors: Prepare for your next Pokémon adventure. Not only is your goal to “catch ’em all”, but you’ll also be applying scientific theories and conducting experiments along the way. Throughout this new adventure, you’ll meet Pokémon of all types and conduct hands-on science experiments that grant insight into the wonderful world of Pokémon.
- Wizarding World: Let your imagination run wild! From hippogriffs, dragons, house elves, basilisk, and owls, to sorting hats, dementors, potions, spells, and all things magical, come join us for the time of your life! Paint Hogwarts castle, sculpt Dobby or Kreacher the house elf, draw mythical creatures, make a Marauder’s map, brew up Butterbeer, create your own wand and Death Eater’s mask, Patronus, chocolate frogs, and lots, lots more! Bring your favorite HP book(s) to school to freshen up on spells, characters, and discuss analogies to the muggle world today. So much magic to do!
- Veterinary Medicine: Do you have an aspiring veterinarian walking around your home? Experiments and projects will give young people the opportunity to investigate the real and exciting field of Veterinary Medicine. Projects include: performing a physical exam, learn about the battle against disease, learn how to suture, Owl pellet dissection, and extract DNA out of a strawberry.
- Junior Medical School: Make NO bones about it; this program is for the aspiring "Young Physician". Students will learn that their bodies are miles of blood vessels, hundreds of muscles, many thousands of hairs, a furnace, a filter, AND a fancy computer! Your Young Physician will really have a pulse on the human body with this camp! Campers receive their own stethoscope and percussion hammer. Sample Projects: Building a Lung Model; Testing for Germs; Build a Spinal Column; Skin Prints; Experiments in Anatomy and Physiology.
2023-24 Schedule
Oct 16th - 11th Dec 2023: Pokémon Professors (Mondays 4:30-5:30 pm at IDEA Space KC). Now ENROLLING: https://www.ideaspacekc.org/programs#/
27 - 29 Dec 2023: Wizarding World (Winter break camps from 9am-4pm at Blue Valley Activity Center)
15 Jan 2024: Pokémon Professors (9am-4pm at Blue Valley Activity Center)
19 Feb 2024: Veterinary Medicine (9am-4pm at Blue Valley Activity Center)
1 - 15 Mar 2024: Junior Medical School (Spring break camps from 9am-4pm at Blue Valley Activity Center)
Summer Camps 2024: From 03June - 09Aug 2024 at the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection Leawood and Hope Chapel Olathe.
