The STEM Lab

We are halfway through another amazing week of summer camp, and our campers are crushing it:
🎮 Our Minecraft Odyssey crews finished their city worlds and have officially landed on Mars - teams are now racing to build sustainable colonies with farms, shelters, and mining operations!
🕹️ Game designers are building their own arcade games with block coding, creating original characters, backgrounds, and animations from scratch.
🏎️ Our LEGO engineers explored Newton's laws and put physics to the test with a sailboat car race - and now they are diving into robotics kits!
🎬 Our animators brought their names to life in Scratch and even programmed bouncing balls with real physics.
Swipe through to see the creativity in action! Seven Oaks Park Hammond School Heathwood Hall Episcopal School Crooked Creek Park
There is still more STEM fun ahead this summer — visit www.thestemlabsc.org to find a camp for your future innovator. 💡

This week, our campers at the Innovation Hub, Seven Oaks Park, Hammond School, Heathwood Hall Episcopal School, Crooked Creek Park are having a fun time learning about coding, game design, animation, circuits through Minecraft, and much more. Are you signed up for more camps in AI, Rocket Engineering, Robotics, and so much more to come? Sign up at https://www.thestemlabsc.org/summer-camps

Our week 2 of camps is in the books. Across the 6 different locations, we covered topics such as Robotics, Game Design, Animation, Microbit, LEGO Science, and Minecraft. It was great to see so many smiling faces and so much learning happening in one week. Seven Oaks Park Saluda Shoals Park Crooked Creek Park Hammond School Heathwood Hall Episcopal School

🚀 Exciting News for Gray Collegiate Families! 🚀

We’re thrilled to partner with The STEM Lab to offer an engaging paid After-School STEM Program for our students at all three campuses! Through hands-on, project-based learning, students will explore exciting fields such as engineering, robotics, coding, science, and emerging technologies while developing critical thinking, problem-solving, and teamwork skills.

The STEM Lab has helped thousands of students across South Carolina discover the fun of STEM through innovative, engineer-designed programs that inspire creativity and prepare students for the future.

Whether your child loves building, creating, coding, or exploring how things work, this program provides a unique opportunity to learn beyond the classroom in a fun and engaging environment.

📚 Hands-on STEM Activities
🤖 Robotics & Engineering Challenges
💻 Coding & Technology Exploration
🔬 Real-World Problem Solving

Campus Offerings:

Columbia Campus
- K-2 Explorer Club
- grades 3 - 5 explorer club
- grades 3 - 5 builder club

Irmo Campus
- grades 5 - 8 explorer club

West Columbia campus
- grades 6 - 8 Builder club

Spots are limited, so don’t wait!

For program details and registration, visit: https://www.thestemlabsc.org/gray-collegiate

🧪 Look what we've been cooking.

The STEM Lab Library is officially live - an interactive science platform for middle & high school students. Real simulations, challenges, and first-principles explanations across 7 subjects: Chemistry, Physics, Math, Biology, Neuroscience, Earth & Space Science, and AP Exam Prep.

We are just getting started, and we want YOUR feedback to make it even better.

🎉 First 15 subscribers get 50% off their first 3 months - code STEMLaunch

Once you've explored it, tell us what you think at [email protected] - every message gets read.
👉 https://library.thestemlabsc.org

Our STEM family is growing!

We are thrilled to welcome Gray Collegiate Academy to The STEM Lab family as our newest partner!
Starting this Fall, we will be bringing our hands-on robotics, coding, AI, and engineering programs to Gray Collegiate students through brand-new afterschool offerings.
And the best part? These programs will be available across three Gray Collegiate Academy campuses:
📍 Irmo
📍 West Columbia
📍 Their brand-new Columbia campus
This partnership means more young innovators will get the chance to build, code, problem-solve, and discover what they are capable of - right after the school day ends. We can't wait to see what these students create!

If you are or will be enrolled at Gray Collegiate Academy on any of these campuses, you can register now at

Gray Collegiate | The STEM Lab Is your child curious about science, technology, engineering, and math — but you are not sure where to start? The STEM Explorers Club is the perfect first step. Held right at their school every other week, this fun, hands-on program lets kids dive into exciting STEM activities with zero pressure a...

We are sharing some pics from this week across our camps - and with them, a little behind-the-scenes honesty.

When you are running camps at the scale we run them, real life shows up. Technology that worked perfectly in testing decides camps are a great time to stop working. 🙃 Instructors deal with car troubles and life happening (because they are human). We make errors. Troubleshooting means swapping out devices on the fly. Apps get re-coded mid-week to fix bugs we didn't catch until 30 users hit them at once.

We don't always meet every expectation. We'll be the first to say that.
But here's what we also know - this week, more than 120 kids showed up, dove in, figured things out, built things, broke things on purpose, and had a blast doing it. And THAT part? That part worked beautifully. 💛
We are always learning alongside our kids. Always improving. Always working to make the next week better than the last.

Thank you to every family who trusts us with their child's summer. We don't take that lightly - and we never will.
9+ more weeks to go. Let's keep building. Let's keep learning Seven Oaks Park, Hammond School, Heathwood Hall Episcopal School, Crooked Creek Park, Saluda Shoals Park, and at Innovation Hub

Week 1️⃣ is in the books - and it was LEGENDARY.

This week, campers at BOTH of our locations dove headfirst into Minecraft Odyssey - and the creativity, problem-solving, and teamwork we witnessed? Absolutely next level.

They weren't just playing. They were designing, engineering, collaborating, and building worlds from scratch. That's STEM in action.

And the best part? We are just getting STARTED.

Almost 10 more weeks of summer camp are still ahead across our two locations - 10 more weeks of epic themes, hands-on challenges, and moments your kids will talk about all school year.

Spots are still available! Don't let your future innovator miss out. 👇
🔗 thestemlabsc.org

Summer camp season is HERE, and we are showing up ALL over Columbia! 🚀

Starting NEXT WEEK, The STEM Lab is bringing hands-on robotics, coding, AI, and STEM adventures to SIX locations across the Midlands:

📍 Heathwood Hall Episcopal School
📍 Hammond School
📍 Seven Oaks Park
📍 The Innovation Hub
📍 Saluda Shoals Park
📍 Crooked Creek Park

Whether your child is a budding engineer, a future coder, or just loves to build and explore, we have a camp near you.

Spots are filling up fast. Register now at thestemlabsc.org before your location sells out!

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