Kids Maker Club: Invent the Future
Do you have the imagination, interest and ingenuity required to invent the gadgets of the future? Use a combination of high tech tools (3D printing, laser cutting, electronics) and woodworking tools to turn your ideas into working prototypes.
View Other Dates and LocationsKids Maker Club: Invent the Future
- Age 8-12
- Sep 14 - Oct 26, 2019
- 01:00 - 03:00 PM
- 7 Sessions
- The Maker Bean Cafe
Program Details
Whether you’re bursting with ideas, or you’re not sure what you’re interested in, we will guide you from idea to plan to making. Using a combination of high tech tools (3D printing, laser cutting, electronics), wood working and craft, we provide the mentorship and structure to help you turn your sketched ideas into working prototypes – led by your own interests, imagination and ingenuity.
What's included
Skills Learned
- 3D Design and Printing
- Arduino programming
- Electronics
- Mechanisms
- Woodworking
Pricing
$210 / 7 week program
$270 / 7 week program (+ optional $60 robotics starter kit)
We offer an optional $60 robotics kit that you can use to take your project home and continue experimenting with it. This kit includes several basic parts to complete a robotics project and can be reused for future programs at STEAMLabs and beyond! If your child is interested in exploring robotics in this class and using it in their project, this kit can also be purchased afterwards with the instructor.
Location
Regular Hours
Monday-Sunday: 8:30am-6:30pm
Past Projects
Past projects have included remote controlled shoes, a snack delivering robot, an alarmed heart-rate monitor, an internet controlled colour-changing marker and remote control spaceships.
Past Projects
Past projects have included remote controlled shoes, a snack delivering robot, an alarmed heart-rate monitor, an internet controlled colour-changing marker and remote control spaceships.
Past Projects
Past projects have included remote controlled shoes, a snack delivering robot, an alarmed heart-rate monitor, an internet controlled colour-changing marker and remote control spaceships.
Do you have the imagination, interest and ingenuity required to invent the gadgets of the future? Use a combination of high tech tools (3D printing, laser cutting, electronics) and woodworking tools to turn your ideas into working prototypes.
View Other Dates and LocationsFrequently Asked Questions
Youth
- Lunch & afternoon snack (or sign up to purchase catered lunch & snacks) - Water bottle with your name on it - Weather appropriate clothing + supplies for venturing out to the park on break (sunhat, suncream, warm layers, rain coat etc.) - Any medications or epipens with instructions
1. Before and after care is bookable by the hour each day of camp; purchase as little or as much you need 2. Select the program(s) you would like to enroll your camper in through our enrollment portal. Follow prompts to add on extras like before/after care & lunches, complete forms and process payment. 3. Repeat for additional campers.
If your child has a kit from a previous program that they would like to disassemble to reuse kit parts, please sign up for the program without kit at check out.
Yes. Individuals can apply for a scholarship.
Information for specific scholarships is listed on each individual program page.
Please visit our contact page in order to see a list of directions.
Please double check where your specific program is located before the start date.
Unfortunately, we are unable to provide make up sessions when classes are missed.
10% fee when you cancel more than a month before program start date.
50% fee when you cancel between 1-4 weeks before program start date.
No refund for cancelations within a week before program start date.