STEAM Kids of the Future LLC

06/25/2026

🎉🔬 STEAM Kids of the Future Made the Observer! 🔬🎉

We are so excited to share that our Mad Scientist Adventures Camp was featured in the East County Observer!

The article captured exactly what we love about camp: students getting hands-on with science, asking questions, testing ideas, working together, and discovering that science is something you do, not just something you read about.

Our Mad Scientists explored microscope specimens, animal adaptations, skull identification, LEGO habitat design, ecosystem art, and an oil-spill cleanup challenge where they tested ways to remove oil from feathers and water. The reporter also highlighted our campers’ excitement and curiosity throughout the experience.

A huge thank-you to the East County Observer and reporter Madison Bierl for visiting us and sharing our campers’ work with the community!

Read the full article here:
https://www.yourobserver.com/news/2026/jun/19/mad-scientist-adventures-camp/

We are so proud of our campers and grateful for every family who chooses STEAM Kids of the Future! 💙🚀🧪

The summer camp at Braden River Middle School is run by teachers with themed activities.

06/25/2026

🧱🎬 Master Builders Academy is Coming to Parrish Next Week! 🎬🧱

Have a child who loves LEGO? Don't miss one of our most popular STEM camps of the summer!

Take a look at what our Lakewood Ranch Master Builders created this past week! 👇 Every stop-motion movie, LEGO build, and creative scene in this video was imagined, designed, built, and animated by our campers.

Now it's Parrish's turn!

📅 June 29 – July 3
📍 Harvey Upper Campus (Parrish/North River Ranch)
👦👧 Rising 4th–7th Grade
👩‍🏫 Led by Certified Teachers

Throughout the week, campers will:

🧱 Discover the fascinating history of LEGO and how it became one of the world's most beloved building systems.

🏗️ Learn how architects, engineers, artists, robotics teams, filmmakers, game designers, and inventors use LEGO in the real world.

⚙️ Master advanced building techniques including strong structures, symmetry, scale, texture, and creative design.

🎬 Learn stop-motion animation using professional techniques like storyboarding, camera angles, lighting, movement, titles, sound effects, and editing.

🎥 Work in production teams to create an original LEGO stop-motion movie that premieres during our Friday LEGO Movie Festival complete with a red carpet, movie posters, and awards!

This is much more than free LEGO play. It's a week filled with engineering, storytelling, creativity, collaboration, and hands-on STEM learning.

🎟️ A few spaces are still available!

👉 Register today:
www.STEAMKidsoftheFuture.org

Watch the video below to see what our Lakewood Ranch campers accomplished in just one week. We can't wait to see what our Parrish Master Builders create next! 🧱✨



🌐 www.steamkidsofthefuture.org

06/19/2026

🎮⛏️ MINECRAFT STEAM QUEST- June 22-26 ⛏️🎮

We still have some spots open at our Parrish campus, come join us!

Limited Screen time, hands on builds/art, taught by Engineering teachers!
Is your child obsessed with Minecraft? What if they could use that passion to explore engineering, coding, art, design, creativity, and problem-solving all week long?

Join us for Minecraft STEAM Quest, where campers will complete exciting Minecraft Education challenges while bringing their creations to life through hands-on projects!

✨ This Week's Adventures Include:

🎵 Minecraft Music & Art Lab

Build Redstone-powered music visualizers
Create pixel art using block coding
Design Minecraft creations with coding challenges
Make Minecraft melty bead projects

🧱 Create Your Own Minecraft Mob

Design an original mob in Minecraft
Build a real 3D version using wooden cubes
Paint and customize your creation
Develop special abilities, habitats, loot drops, and more

🏰 Build Battle Challenge

Mobs are invading!
Design and construct the ultimate survival bunker
Use Redstone, sensors, levers, and engineering skills to defend your base

🌊 Save the Ocean Engineering Challenge

Learn about ocean pollution
Design and build an ocean cleanup vessel in Minecraft
Present your solution to the class

🎨 Minecraft Art Masters

Recreate famous works of art using Minecraft-style pixel design
Build an Interactive Minecraft Art Museum
Create exhibits, NPC guides, sculptures, murals, and animated displays

⚡ Plus LEGO Speed Challenges, Team Games, Creative Building, and More!

This camp blends:
✅ Minecraft Education
✅ Coding & Computer Science
✅ Engineering Design
✅ Art & Creativity
✅ Problem Solving
✅ Teamwork & Collaboration

📅 June 22-26
Incoming Grades 4-7
📍 Harvey Upper Campus (North River Ranch) Parrish
⏰ 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Our camps are taught by certified teachers and designed to transform screen time into meaningful learning, creativity, and hands-on fun.

🚨 Limited spots remain!

Register today at:
STEAM Kids of the Future



Can your child design a brand-new Minecraft mob, build an ocean-cleaning machine, code pixel art, and create an interactive art museum? They're about to find out! 🎮🚀🎨🧱

06/15/2026

🚀⚙️ What an Amazing Week at Future Engineers Academy- Parrish Location! ⚙️🚀
This week, our Future Engineers spent five incredible days designing, building, testing, problem-solving, and thinking like real engineers!

Throughout the week, campers explored a variety of engineering fields, including:

🤖 Robotics Engineering
🖨️ 3D Printing & CAD Design
⚙️ Simple Machines
🔗 Rube Goldberg Machines
🚗 Transportation Engineering
🚤 Marine Engineering
🏠 Sustainable & Off-the-Grid Design
🌬️ Renewable Energy Engineering
🌎 Future Community Design

Some of our favorite projects included:

✨ Designing original 3D prints in Tinkercad

🤖 Building and testing robotic hands

⚙️ Exploring the six simple machines through hands-on engineering labs

🔗 Creating Rube Goldberg chain reaction machines

🚗 Designing and racing balloon-powered cars

🚤 Engineering boats that raced across the water

🏠 Building futuristic off-the-grid homes

🌬️ Designing and testing wind turbines

🌎 Creating self-sustaining communities using recycled materials

Along the way, students learned one of the most important lessons in engineering:

Great engineers don't always get it right the first time. They test, improve, and try again.

We were so impressed by the creativity, teamwork, perseverance, and problem-solving skills our engineers demonstrated throughout the week. Watching students turn ideas into working prototypes and tackle challenges with enthusiasm was truly inspiring.

❤️ A huge THANK YOU to all of our amazing families for trusting us with your children this week. Thank you for supporting their creativity, encouraging their curiosity, sending in materials, cheering on their projects, and making STEAM Kids such a special community.

We also want to thank our incredible teachers and volunteers who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to make every challenge, activity, and engineering adventure possible.

We hope your engineers had as much fun as we did!

📸 Feel free to share your favorite camp photos in the comments!

🚀 Until next time, keep building, keep creating, and keep engineering the future!

🚀⚙️🤖🖨️🚗🚤🌎🏠🌬️

06/11/2026

🤖🏆 What a Week at VEX IQ Robotics Camp! 🏆🤖

Our Lakewood Ranch campers wrapped up an incredible week of VEX IQ Level 1 Robotics, and we couldn't be more proud of what they accomplished!

Throughout the week, students were introduced to the exciting world of robotics and engineering as they learned how to:

🔧 Build VEX IQ robots

💻 Program robots using block-based coding

⚙️ Understand how motors, sensors, gears, and drivetrains work

🧠 Solve engineering challenges through teamwork and problem-solving

🎯 Learn the fundamentals of this year's official VEX IQ competition game

🚗 Test, improve, and redesign their robots using the Engineering Design Process

One of the best parts of the week was watching students grow more confident each day. Many arrived with little or no robotics experience and left the week building, coding, troubleshooting, and talking like real robotics engineers!

📸 Check out some of our favorite moments from the week below!

🚨 MISSED VEX IQ LEVEL 1? GOOD NEWS! 🚨

We still have a few openings available at our Parrish/North River Ranch location for:

🤖 VEX IQ Level 1

🤖 VEX IQ Elite Lab
Take robotics to the next level with advanced building, coding, strategy, and competition challenges.

🏗️ Master Builder Camp
Engineering, LEGO challenges, structures, inventions, and creative problem-solving.

⛏️ Minecraft Engineering
Engineering, architecture, design challenges, and STEM projects inspired by the world of Minecraft.

🧭 Minecraft STEAM Quest
A Minecraft-inspired adventure week filled with creative building, problem-solving missions, engineering challenges, and teamwork.

✅ Rising 4th–7th Grade
✅ Certified STEM, Science & Engineering Teachers
✅ PEP/UA Direct Provider
✅ Hands-On Learning Every Day

📍 Parrish / North River Ranch Location

🌐 www.steamkidsofthefuture.org

Thank you to our amazing VEX IQ campers for a fantastic week of building, coding, learning, and teamwork. We can't wait to see what you'll engineer next! 🚀🤖⚙️

06/06/2026

🔬🧪 What a Week at Mad Scientist Adventures! 🧪🔬

This week at STEAM Kids of the Future, our young scientists spent five days exploring the exciting worlds of chemistry, biology, forensics, environmental science, space, and weather through hands-on experiments and engineering challenges!

🚀 Some of our favorite highlights included:

🧪 Elephant Toothpaste Experiments
Campers learned about chemical reactions, catalysts, and variables while creating giant foamy eruptions and conducting their own experiments to test how changing ingredients affected the results.

🚀 Baking Soda Rockets
Students became aerospace engineers as they tested different rocket fuel combinations and launched film canister rockets high into the air while learning about pressure, gases, and force.

🕵️ Forensic Science Labs
Future detectives analyzed fingerprints, decoded invisible ink messages, identified mystery powders, and designed forensic inventions to help solve crimes.

🌿 Create-a-Creature Ecosystem Challenge
Students researched real organisms, designed their own species with unique adaptations, sculpted them from clay, and built miniature ecosystems inside jars to help them survive.

🔬 Microscope Investigations
Campers explored the microscopic world and practiced making scientific observations just like real biologists.

🫁 Human Body Science Day
Students tested reaction times, explored optical illusions, learned about how their brains process information, and investigated the amazing systems that keep our bodies functioning.

🌎 Environmental Engineering Challenges
Campers tackled real-world environmental problems, explored renewable energy concepts, and worked together to design creative solutions.

👽 Space Exploration Day
From creating alien planets and building LEGO space rovers to learning about gravity and designing the ultimate alien lifeform, students explored what it might take to survive beyond Earth.

🌪️ Natural Disaster Research
Students researched hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and earthquakes while learning how scientists study and predict some of nature's most powerful events.

Throughout the week, campers practiced teamwork, critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving, communication, and perseverance—all while having an absolute blast!

📸 Here are some of our favorite moments from the week!

🚨 MISSED MAD SCIENTIST ADVENTURES? 🚨

Good news!

🔬 Mad Scientist Adventures is coming to our Lakewood Ranch location at Braden River Middle School the week of June 15th, and we still have a few spots available!

If your child loves:
✅ Hands-on science experiments
✅ Building and creating
✅ Rockets and chemical reactions
✅ Forensic investigations
✅ STEM challenges
✅ Space and engineering activities
..then this is the perfect week for them!

👦👧 Rising Grades 4–7

👩‍🏫 Taught by certified STEM, Science, and Engineering teachers

📍 Braden River Middle School – Lakewood Ranch

🌐 Register today:
www.steamkidsofthefuture.org

Come see why our campers spend the week saying:

"This was the best camp ever!" 🚀🧪🔬💥

05/30/2026

🧪🚀 MAD SCIENTIST ADVENTURES 🚀🧪

If your child loves experiments, mysteries, science, space, weather, animals, and discovering how the world works, this is the week for them!

Throughout the week, campers become real scientists as they explore a different branch of science each day:

🧪 Chemistry & Forensics Day

💥 Create GIANT Elephant Toothpaste eruptions
🕵️ Solve forensic mysteries
🔬 Investigate mystery powders and evidence
🧪 Conduct chemical reactions and experiments
🔍 Think like a real crime scene investigator

🧬 Biology Day

🌱 Create ecosystems in a jar
🦋 Design your own organism
🔬 Use microscopes and scientific observation
🐾 Learn about habitats and adaptations

🌎 Environmental Science Day

🛢️ Clean up simulated oil spills
♻️ Play environmental challenge games
🌍 Complete Planet Rescue Missions
☀️ Explore renewable energy

🧠 Human Body Science Day

⚡ Test reaction times
🪞 Challenge your brain with optical illusions
🎈 Investigate lung capacity
🧠 Discover how your senses and brain work together

🚀 Space, Weather & Rocket Science Day

👽 Create your own alien species
🌌 Escape the Black Hole Challenge
🪐 Explore constellations and planets
🌪️ Investigate extreme weather
🚀 Design, build, and launch your own rockets!

Throughout the week, campers will be:

✅ Experimenting
✅ Investigating
✅ Building
✅ Solving Problems
✅ Working with Friends
✅ Thinking Like Scientists

👦👧 Incoming Grades 4–7
📍 Lakewood Ranch & Parrish Locations
👩‍🏫 Led by certified STEM, Engineering, and Science teachers

This isn't daycare. It isn't worksheets. It's a week-long hands-on science adventure where kids get to explore, create, experiment, and discover.

🌟 Mad Scientist Adventures is just ONE of our 7 unique summer camp themes!

🔗 www.steamkidsofthefuture.org

05/23/2026

🇺🇸 MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND - PARRISH LAUNCH SPECIAL 🇺🇸

To celebrate Memorial Day weekend and the launch of our NEW Parrish/North River Ranch location, STEAM Kids of the Future is offering:

☀️ $50 OFF PER WEEK ☀️

for all NEW Parrish camp registrations made this weekend only!

📅 Offer ends Monday at 11:59 PM

🚀 Each week is a different camp experience: Master Builders • Engineering • Robotics • Minecraft • Science
👩‍🏫 Led by certified STEM & Engineering teachers
📍 Harvey Upper Campus – Parrish/North River Ranch
👦 Incoming Grades 4–7

This isn’t your average summer camp, our programs are designed as immersive, hands-on STEM experiences where students build, create, problem solve, and innovate every single day! It is technically a summer camp, but is set up more like week long deep dive classes into that week's topic. 💡

✔ Small camp sizes
✔ Purposeful and structured technology use
✔ Hands-on projects daily
✔ Taught by experienced Manatee County STEM educators

👉 Register here:
https://www.steamkidsofthefuture.org/summer-camps/summer-camps-overview
REGISTRATION DIRECTIONS:
1. When registering, select "cash/check" payment option so you do not get charged the full camp amount upon checkout.
2. During the application when filling out "child general info", there is a section for notes. Please include code MEMORIAL50
3. Once we receive and process your application, you will receive an updated invoice reflecting the $50 off per week with directions on how to pay your balance.

05/21/2026

🌟 HIGH SCHOOL VOLUNTEERS WANTED! 🌟

Looking for a fun and meaningful way to earn volunteer hours this summer? ☀️💡

STEAM Kids of the Future is looking for responsible, energetic high school volunteers to help at our STEM summer camps in BOTH Lakewood Ranch & Parrish! 🚀🤖🧪

Volunteers can:
✅ Earn volunteer hours for school requirements & scholarships like Bright Futures
✅ Pick and choose the weeks that work for their schedule
✅ Gain leadership experience working with kids
✅ Help with engineering projects, robotics, science activities, Minecraft Education, and more!
✅ Have FUN while making a real impact in the community ❤️

📅 Camp Dates: June 1 – July 17
📍 Locations:
• Lakewood Ranch
• Parrish

Whether you love STEM, teaching, leadership, creativity, or just want an unforgettable summer experience — we’d love to have you join our team! 🙌

👉 Apply today at:
www.steamkidsofthefuture.org

Tag a high school student who would be perfect for this! 👇🎉