STEAM Programs for Kids and Teens

Explore Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math with everyday stuff!

• Learn design thinking, practice problem-solving and troubleshooting

• Exercise creativity and imagination

• Taught by award-winning author and educator Kathy Ceceri

• Everyone makes a real working project to take home!

  Details below

2025-26 Featured Workshops

Paper Inventions: Engineering, Circuits, and Coding for Kids and Teens

Try some old favorites and new activities from the second edition of my book Paper Inventions, coming soon! Choose from projects for kids like the Light-Up Squeeze Card, Animation Zoetrope, or Jack-in-the-Box Clamshell. For teens, I offer the Cranky Automaton and the bonus Reaction Game coding project using the BBC micro:bit mini computer and Microsoft MakeCode programming. Also ask about the Paper Straw Fractal Pyramid — a great community-building activity for 16 or more kids, teens, or families!

Check out other tech and coding workshops for teens

Revolutionary Science: Build a Battery

Do you know how the invention of the electric battery is related to the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution in upstate New York? Find out in this hands-on workshop! Build your own simple and safe battery and learn how scientific exploration in the 1700s led to technology we still use today!

BOTS! Robotics Workshops for Kids and Teens

Stand-alone workshops and multi-session BOTS courses — including Intro to Coding classes for teens! Based on my books BOTS! and Making Simple Robots (2nd Ed).

Options include:

• Make a Motorized ArtBot that draws as it moves

• Build a Robot Gripper (teens can add a bendable wrist)

• Create a Light-Up Paper Flex Sensor

• Design and Code a DrawBot or Crawling Robot Inchworm for teens

  Read more about BOTS projects for kids and teens.

Solar, Wind, and Water Power: Clean Energy Projects for Kids and Teens

Find out how renewable energy works by creating wind generators, waterwheels, and solar-powered houses.

Programming activities for teens are available.

Read more about renewable energy workshops for kids and teens.

STEAM Program Details

Price includes:

• Travel from Schuylerville, NY (northern Saratoga County)

• Supplies to make take-home projects, such as:

  • Cardstock templates and/or printable PDFs

  • Crafts and household materials (straws, tape, pipe cleaners)

  • Hobby motors

  • LED lights

  • Batteries

• Online and printable instructions included upon request

You (or participants) provide:

• Some recycled or donated materials like cardboard boxes, newspaper, yarn

• Computers (desktop or laptop) with internet access

  • Note:

    • Limited laptops may be available to borrow

    • Coding workshops use free, online software such as Microsoft MakeCode, MIT Scratch, and Autocad’s Tinkercad

Provided for use during class:

• Tools and supplies, including scissors, markers, hot glue guns, etc.

• Electronic components (programmable microcontrollers and servo motors, Makey Makey keyboards, etc.)

• Reusable kits like PinBox 3000

• Note: Kits to purchase, or shopping list of supplies needed, are available upon request

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