Build
Students work with robotics, art materials, game pieces, cameras, circuits, or maker tools depending on the program.
STEAM Learning Station • Program Guide
Our STEAM Programs In Depth
A closer look at the robotics, coding, engineering, art, movie making, and game design programs kids experience at STEAM Learning Station.
✓ Hands-on projects
✓ Creative problem solving
✓ Build, test, share
How programs work
Built Around Making, Testing, and Sharing
Each program blends guided instruction with open-ended creativity. Kids learn concepts by using them in projects they can see, touch, revise, and explain.
Test
They try ideas, notice what happens, troubleshoot, and make improvements through real project work.
Create
Every session leaves room for personal style, storytelling, design choices, or original solutions.
Share
Kids practice explaining what they made, what changed, and what they discovered along the way.
Program library
Summer Camp Program Details
Use this page as a program guide. Current summer locations, dates, and registration links are listed on the main Summer Camps page.
Robotics + science investigation
LEGO® Robotics: Scientific Mysteries
Campers solve themed mysteries by building, testing, and improving LEGO® robotics models. Each challenge asks kids to observe what is happening, make a prediction, test an idea, and adjust their build.
What kids do
- Build moving LEGO® robotics models connected to mystery-style challenges
- Use observation, cause-and-effect, and simple experiments to explain what happens
- Modify designs when the first version does not work as expected
Skills they build
Scientific thinkingEngineering habitsProblem solvingTeam discussion
Outcome: Students leave with stronger confidence asking questions, testing ideas, and explaining their thinking.
Program Video
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Robotics + friendly competition
LEGO® Robotics: Battle Bot Showdown
Campers design and program robots for arena-style challenges. The focus is not just building a powerful bot; it is learning how to test, redesign, and improve a strategy over time.
What kids do
- Create robot attachments and mechanisms for challenge rounds
- Test balance, traction, pushing force, and control
- Practice good sportsmanship during friendly competitions
Skills they build
Mechanical designIterationStrategyCollaboration
Outcome: Students experience engineering as a cycle: build, test, learn, and rebuild.
Program Video
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Engineering + motion
LEGO® Robotics: Mechanical Marvels
Campers explore how machines move. Gears, axles, levers, linkages, wheels, and drivetrains become tools for solving creative engineering challenges.
What kids do
- Build machines that move, lift, spin, push, or pull
- Experiment with simple mechanical systems
- Improve builds by changing structure, balance, or motion
Skills they build
Mechanical reasoningSpatial thinkingDesign testingPersistence
Outcome: Students begin to see machines as systems they can understand, change, and improve.
Program Video
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Coding + logic
LEGO® Robotics: AI Computer Science
Campers learn computer science ideas through robotics missions. They use sequencing, conditions, sensors, debugging, and logical thinking to help robots complete tasks.
What kids do
- Program robots to follow steps and respond to inputs
- Use debugging strategies when code or movement does not work
- Connect coding choices to real-world robot behavior
Skills they build
SequencingLogicDebuggingComputational thinking
Outcome: Students build a foundation for coding by seeing how instructions affect physical movement.
Program Video
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Maker camp + creative technology
Creation Station: LEGO® Robotics, Circuits, Drones, & More
Creation Station blends robotics, circuits, drones, motors, and open-ended invention. Campers rotate through hands-on builds and creative challenges that encourage experimentation.
What kids do
- Try multiple STEAM tools in one camp experience
- Build inventions using motion, electricity, structure, and control
- Combine creative design with practical problem solving
Skills they build
Maker mindsetExperimentationTool confidenceCreative engineering
Outcome: Students discover several STEAM pathways and build confidence trying unfamiliar tools.
Program Video
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Storytelling + media creation
LEGO® Movie Making: Stop-Motion Brick Flicks
Campers plan, film, and edit LEGO® stop-motion stories. They learn that great movies require story structure, camera patience, visual choices, and teamwork.
What kids do
- Create characters, scenes, and short storyboards
- Capture frame-by-frame stop-motion footage
- Add simple editing choices to create a finished mini movie
Skills they build
StorytellingSequencingMedia literacyPatience
Outcome: Students turn creative ideas into a shareable story with a beginning, middle, and end.
Program Video
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Art + creative confidence
Artistic Inventions
Campers explore art as invention. Projects may include drawing, painting, mixed media, design prompts, creative problem solving, and opportunities to develop a personal style.
What kids do
- Use art materials to explore color, shape, texture, and design
- Create projects with guided instruction and personal choice
- Practice sharing creative choices in a supportive setting
Skills they build
Creative confidenceFine motor practiceDesign thinkingSelf-expression
Outcome: Students build pride in their ideas and learn that creative work can be planned, revised, and celebrated.
Program Video
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Game design + prototyping
Board Game Creation
Campers design a playable board game from the ground up. They create a theme, rules, pieces, goals, and scoring systems, then playtest and improve the game.
What kids do
- Invent game themes, rules, pieces, and win conditions
- Prototype boards and materials
- Playtest with peers and revise based on feedback
Skills they build
Systems thinkingMath in contextCommunicationCreative revision
Outcome: Students learn how designers turn an idea into a playable experience that others can understand.
Program Video
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School-year programs
After School STEAM Programs
After school sessions use the same hands-on approach in a shorter format that works well after the school day.
What after school looks like
Students start with a short warm-up challenge, move into a guided project, and finish with time to share what they created. Sessions may include LEGO® robotics, coding challenges, maker builds, art, board game design, or media projects.
Best for
- Curious elementary students
- Kids who enjoy building, designing, or creating
- Students who benefit from active, project-based learning
Common outcomes
- Creative confidence
- Problem-solving habits
- Teamwork and communication
- More comfort trying new ideas
Program Video
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Ready to Choose a Program?
Return to the main Summer Camps page for current dates, locations, and registration links.