Before and After School/Community Programs

Cool-ology® Kids engage in empathetic problem-solving, and creative design, and use critical thinking skills to deepen their understanding of core science and engineering principles- all while having fun!

Virtual and in-person classes are available.

Animal Anatomy: Form and Function
Let’s examine animal eyes, ears, tails, and beaks! Participants investigate various animal anatomy through hands-on, inquiry-based activities in this fast-paced, fun, educational program.

Biomimicry Engineering Lab
STEM in action! Participants learn about biomimicry and how engineers imitate animals and nature when designing products. We will then use that knowledge to design and engineer a new product based on an animal and/or nature.

SURVIVE: Wild Animal Adaptations Lab
Participants learn about some of the Earth’s most remarkable animal adaptations through engaging hands-on activities. Then they’ll design and create a creature that can survive using adaptations of its own!

Fairy Tale STEAM Lab
Stories, Science, Art, and Engineering collide as participants investigate, design, and engineer creations that “save” animal characters plucked from traditional fairy tales!

Wizards and Magic
Amaze your friends and mystify your parents (in a good way!) by learning how to use science to make magic. Learn mind-boggling magic tricks while exploring science concepts such as magnetism, chemistry, surface tension, and gravity. Come prepared to be amazed and amused!

Artists and Makers
Art and science meet in this fast-paced, creative program! Participants who love to draw, paint, craft, and tell stories will love using science to make art!

Story Time STEAM
Participants use STEAM to craft, tell, and share their own stories in innovative ways- combining science, art, and engineering! The process can be magical, transformative, confidence-building, and a lot of fun!

Fee schedule available upon request. Please email with any questions or for more information about any of the topics below.

Before and After School/Community programs include all of the topics listed in the Elementary Programs/Homeschool Programs and the following additional topics. MOST of these topics can be modified for a virtual format.

Animal Investigations
Animals In Winter
Avian Adventures
ART STEAM Labs
Beautiful Bugs
Benjamin Franklin’s Charged Up Birthday Bash STEM Lab
Biology In a Bottle: Terraqua Columns
BIOMES Investigations and Maker Labs
Bird Beak Lab
Bird Calls Lab
Bird STEAM Lab
Buoyancy: Sink or Float/Flinkers
Car Racing Physics Lab
Carbon Dioxide Lab
Coastal Clean-Up Lab
Coding and Robotics Lab
Cool Colors Lab
Cool Creatures of Long Island Sound
Cool Crystals: The Magic of Snow
Cool Mixtures and Magical Potions: The Science of Chemistry
Come Fly Away With Me: Air, Air Pressure, Gravity and Flight
Coloring STEAM Bots
Cranberry Craze STEAM Lab
Dinosaurs Rock!
Dinosaur and Fossil Lab
DNA Lab
Magical Crystals STEAM
Dance and Movement Physics Lab
Defying Gravity: A Wicked Good Gravity Lab
Density Really Matters: Gain a Greater Understanding of Density and How it is Affected By Mass
Design It, Build It: Children Investigate the Science of Engineering
Dr. Seuss STEAM
Earth Day Lab
Earth, Moon, Space STEAM
Fabulous Fossils
Fairy Tale and Story Time STEAM
Fall Leaf and Seed STEAM Investigations
Feathered Friends/Bird Beak Lab
Flower Power STEAM Lab
FRACTAL STEAM
GBSCS (Gross But So Cool Science!)
Giants of Science: Archimedes, Da Vinci, Newton, Einstein, Rosalind Franklin, Curie, and More!
Hibernation STEM Lab
Holiday Science (Halloween Science, Thanksgiving Food Science, Holiday Science Gifts, Valentine’s Day Science, Saint Patrick’s Day Science)
Halloween Topics: Spooky Halloween STEAM Lab, Halloween Science Lab, Bony Builders, Webs and Wings Lab
Ice and Snow Winter STEAM Lab
Intro to Engineering
It’s ELECTRIC STEM Lab
Leonardo STEM Challenges
Levers and Launchers
LEGO Lab
Looking at Stars with Galileo: A Space Adventure
Magical Magnets
March Madness STEAM Lab
Minecraft Biomes Lab
Mindfulness STEAM Labs: Biology, Chemistry, Physics
Minute To Win It Physics
Mobile Makerspace Labs
Move-It Game Engineering Challenge
Nanotechnology: The Science of Really Small Stuff
Nature Rocks: Nature Walks Exploring Local Natural Resources
Ocean STEAM Lab
Ooo, Ahh, POP: The Science of Bubbles
Our Wondrous Bodies Labs
Paleontology Lab
Paper STEAM Lab
Plant and Seed STEAM
Play Dough Circuits
Play With Your Food Science
Powerful Pollinators
Processes That Change the Earth Lab
Rocks and Minerals Lab
Roller Coaster Physics
Science Magic
Science Toys
Seed Movers Engineering Lab
Shark Week STEAM Lab
SLIME Lab
Snow and Ice Lab
Snow and Ice Hut Engineering Lab
Snowball Launcher Physics Lab
STATIC STEAM Lab
STEAM Art Lab
STEM/STEAM Gifts
Super Bowl STEM
Super Spinner Physics
Paper Clip Science
Wind-Powered Vehicles Engineering Lab
Winter Engineering Lab
Winter Holidays Labs: Chinese New Year, Groundhog Day, Martin Luther King Day Lab
WOMEN in STEM