Creating, Critical Thinking and Deep Exploration with STEAM

STEAM Centre school workshops tap into a variety of creative tools from simple scissors and markers to complex – design thinking, 3D design and electronics – to help students learn foundational, character-building skills that empower them to solve authentic problems, develop perseverance, engage in their community and develop a global perspective. 

For the 2021-2022 school year, we're offering live online instruction and asynchronous virtual instruction, along with complete classroom kits of materials for each student. Learn with us or at your own pace.  Classes start at just $6/student including all materials. See a program that interests you fill out our school workshop request form to find out more information.

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Students will learn about structures through different building activities. Who ever said a straw house can't be strong? Students will use technological problem-solving skills by testing how the Three Little Pigs story holds up in the real world!

Students will learn about materials, movement, and simple machines in this exciting building activity. Students will use technological problem-solving skills to assemble a self-driving race car and design obstacles!

Grade 1-8- The BBC micro:bit is a pocket-sized computer that introduces how software and hardware work together. It has an LED light display, buttons, sensors and many input/output features that, when programmed, let it interact with you and your world. In this workshop you will learn how computers work and get to design your own program to see how to make the microbit react. This workshop is perfect for classrooms that have microbits on hand. (Hardware not included)

Students will learn to code both online and offline in this virtual field trip. Whether an adept coder or a first-timer this program has something for all students! Contact us for a variety of coding course options.

Grade 1-8- Already know how to code? Have Ozobots in your classroom or at your school board? Let’s show you some fun ways to use coding skills to create your own colour coded mazes for the ozobot to travel through. (Hardware not included)

Gear up for some simple machines fun! Students will learn all about pulleys through this real-world building activity. Students will use technological problem-solving skills to design a crane with working pulleys and experiment with different uses for cranes!

Students will explore the properties of light and sound in this illuminating workshop. Learn about radiation and vibration, find the rainbow by creating a light-diffracting spectrocope, and buzz about volume and pitch by crafting a noisy bee!

SOLD OUT- Students will learn about the human body organs and systems that help keep us alive by becoming biomedical engineers! Using electrical devices, students discover how to generate energy with their own body, how that energy is transformed, and the impact of physical activity on their body.

Get ready to spread your wings and take flight! Students will learn all about how things fly! Why do some flying things have wings and others have propellers? How can both work? Discover the answers through four building challenges and a series of flight tests.

Automatons are like the ancient ancestors of robots! Just like we program robots with code, we program automata with mechanical systems! Students will dive into the exciting world of automation as they use simple machines and technological problem-solving skills to determine a solution to this complex design challenge.

Water is a vital resource that we all need to survive. Students will explore world water access and learn how to make a water filtration system.