District 196 Community Education

Create a wand and magical pendant using TinkerCAD®, while learning 3-D design skills. Join in fun Harry Potter-inspired challenges and create themed video games, while waiting for the prints to finish.

Explore logic, pattern recognition and math concepts, while building increasingly sophisticated designs. Develop basic programming techniques using custom-made programming blocks in PCs. Enjoy hands-on experience using gears, axles and connector blocks in robotic challenges.

Unleash your inner game designer! Learn coding and build an action-packed battle royale. Customize the arena, create unique characters and scatter power-ups for epic water balloon fights. Battle friends for the ultimate victory royale!

Create an amazing Pokémon adventure in a video game! With friends, create a universe of magical Pokémon creatures to escape an adventure map, code a catch-Pokémon-game, design a Pokémon team and more!

Discover the amazing science behind sweets by mixing up totally awesome sugary mixes and design packing for yummy creations. Create tasty gummy bears, yummy edible slime and so much more, while learning about the science and chemistry of food! Not for kids with food allergies.

Create amazing Minecraft creatures to code and create a personalized Minecraft adventure game to share with friends.Design a treasure map where your character needs to find a diamond trove, survive lava, get away from dangerous creatures and more!

Dive into the exciting world of STEAM through hands-on, edible cookie projects! Create delicious projects and decorate cookies with STEM themes and engage in fun activities that combine creativity with discovery. Bring home something delicious every day! Not for kids with food allergies.

Design, experiment and build the coolest gizmos and gadgets! From an amazing robotic arm to a thrilling slingshot rocket, get ready for endless fun with STEAM-powered projects.

If you love puzzles, riddles and mysteries, crime lab investigations are for you! Unlock your hidden talents as a detective and hunt for clues using critical thinking and math skills. Sift through evidence and examine case files of the unknown, unsolved or sometimes just very strange happenings. It's a mystery adventure. Case closed.

Create killer beats, remix awesome tracks and learn to make music videos. No experience needed – just a love of music and video! Use sound effects, video clips and mix it all into a masterpiece. Create amazing lyric videos where the words come to life and make music videos with video clips and special effects!

Explore the awesome world of Dungeons & Dragons! Learn about the game, create your own character and embark on a short one-shot adventure. Participate in other STEAM activities, like creating a Dungeons & Dragons-inspired video game!

Build super cool machines and connect to motors, sensors and awesome light-up bricks using LEGO® education sets to create mind-blowing designs that move, light up and respond to commands.

Discover the exciting world of programming and engineering through hands-on learning. In this action-packed session. Build and program eight unique robotic and engineering models, including a power plant, military tank, crane and more! Explore key concepts like kinetic and potential energy, Newton’s Laws, and angular momentum while sharpening your problem-solving and critical thinking skills. Ignite creativity and lay the foundation for future success in tech and engineering.

Make your own fizzy bath bombs, shimmering lip balm, soaps, shower dough, glam goo, exfoliating salt scrub and many more fun science experiments! Have a blast with friends while concocting all types of beauty and bath products. Add a pinch of imagination to create super cool packages and more to take home.

Illuminate the night with awesome STEAM projects! Explore glow-in-the-dark pigments and learn the difference between fluorescent and luminescent. Use LED lights to create a handy flashlight, light-up underwater sea monsters, engineer a cool night lamp and more! Take home a light-up project each day.

Dive into a universe of gooey, gunky, gloppy slimes, discovering a unique slime each day! Create eruptions, engineer a hovercraft, craft a glowing planetary night lamp, a shelter and so much more!

Are you curious about how hackers think? Do you love solving puzzles? Experience the exciting world of coding, ethical hacking and cybersecurity. Uncover the techniques hackers use, practice on specially designed websites and master the skills to protect your online information. Play Capture the Flag games where you can crack codes and outsmart cyber threats!

Create stop-motion animation using characters from the Harry Potter and Fantastical Beasts series! Build and design magical-themed scenes and props. Handle all of the technical details of filming scenes, including stop-motion, digital editing, special effects and transitions to the movie. Create digital animations and participate in our Harry Potter-themed STEAM activities.