Engineering For Kids of Dane County

04/03/2023

Welcome to April, hope everyone had a fabulous spring break. We are on the downward side of the school year. How crazy is that!!!

We just finished Super-Hero spring break in Middleton the kids had a blast thinking up their super-hero, powers, lairs, dragsters, egg drops made ice cream and a ton of memories were made along with a lot of laughing!!

03/13/2023

We are doing March Maker Space builds with free building and Leprechaun traps in hopes of catching one of those sneaky lil guys!!!

Chemistry in the Kitchen in Waunakee is going great kiddos made stone soup and fruit pizza last week, The kids are having a blast!!

03/02/2023

This week the kids at Pope Farms, got to free build and break out their creativity!!

We also started a new Chemistry in the Kitchen class in Waunakee and the kids made biscuit pizzas and baked doughnuts.

I would say it was a huge success for all they had so much fun creating and eating their pizzas!!

Summer camps are coming be on the look out and check in with your Rec Centers, and us.

June 12th-16th: Middleton Camp
June 19th-23rd: Cross Plains
June 26th:-30th: Middleton

July 10th-14th: Mt. Horeb and Urban Air
July 17th:-21st: Urban Air
July 24th-28th: Urban Air
July 31st-August 4th: Waunakee

August 7th-11th: Mt. Horeb and Verona
August 14th:-18th: Middleton
August 21st-25th: Urban Air

Have a great weekend, have some fun, and enjoy the time with your kiddos!!

02/07/2023

Wanted to share some of the great egg drop pictures from last week's final challenge.

The kids looked like they had fun!!! Some were successful and some where not... which is the engineering way.

02/06/2023

Good morning Parents, hope you all had a fabulous weekend. This week kicks off our Tinkering and Gadgets session.

The kids finished January challenges with a splat, as they designed things to protect their eggs last week, and some were not successful and the eggs didn't survive but I am sure that the failures led to new ways of thinking and they will become success the next time.

True meaning of STEM, mistakes make our brains grow!!!! They are never failures they are just ideas and designs that need some modifications!!

This week we are in Waunakee today, Pope Farms tomorrow, Wednesday in Lake Mills, MCDS, Thursday Middleton and starting a new class at Our Lady Queen of Peace check out the flyer below!! Friday in Mt. Horeb and Saturday in Verona.

We are gearing up for spring break classes in Middleton and one day in Lake Mills.

Summer is right around the corner and we will offer camps in Middleton, Cross Plains, Mt. Horeb, hopefully Waunakee. Lake Mills and Verona. Keep an eye out!!!

We will be doing fun things like Mad scientist , Mine Craft, Lego We-Do building, hands on building and designing. Chemistry in the Kitchen cooking, and other camps.

02/01/2023

Good morning friends and families!! Hope you are staying safe in these cold temps.

We have had a fun two weeks of classes. Last week the kids built recyclable towers and this week we are finishing up our month of challenges, with egg drops.

The egg drop challenge is my favorite to see if the kiddos designs hold up and protect their eggs. We have some great engineers.

01/20/2023

Happy Friday Families and Friends, we have successfully finished our second week of session three.

We are doing a month of challenges, and the kids are having a blast in their designing and building.

Paper tower challenges, and the rubber-band challenge was this week.

Have a great weekend, and do something fun with the kids, hopefully bring some STEM or STEAM into the fun!!

01/13/2023

Happy Friday Families!!

I hope the new year is off to a good start and you are all healthy and happy.

We kicked off our third session of Engineering for Kids this week in Waunakee and Middleton and Mt. Horeb will kick off tonight.

The kiddos are doing a month of Challenges. Working in teams designing and building.

This week brought paper towers. The goal was to make it tall, and to hold marshmallow weight.

It is always my favorite thing to see what they can come up with!!

The vocabulary the kids learned:

Force - any action that tends to maintain or alter the position of a structure
Load - weight distribution throughout a structure; loads caused by wind, earthquakes, and gravity affect how weight is distributed throughout a structure
Pressure - a force applied or distributed over an area
Stable - ability to resist collapse and deformation; stability (n.) characteristic of a structure that is able to carry a realistic load without collapsing or deforming significantly
Unstable - characteristic of a structure that collapses or deforms under a realistic load

Madison Country Day school did a free build on Monday they had a lot of fun using their imaginations.

01/09/2023

Good Monday morning, as this week brings the start of Session 3 to different areas. January is a month of challenges.

The kids will be building a paper tower, that must have height and hold weight!! Should be an interesting session.

We will be starting a hands-on programming in Waunakee today from 3:30-4:40.

Lake Mills will start Wednesday

Middleton will start on Thursday.

Hope your kids are ready for some fun designing and building.

12/13/2022

12/13/2022

Merry Christmas to you all from Engineering for Kids. Wow!!! Can't believe Christmas is 12 days away. So crazy how fast time is flying by when you are engineering and buliding.

The kiddos have be working on Operation Top Secret for the past two weeks and this week they will be designing and building graham cracker houses.

Can't wait to see all of their builds, creativity, and individualism that comes in being in a STEM program.

We are wrapping up our final week of our second session. Will be back next year!! aka January!! :)

We will have challenges, Leprechaun traps, Lego and Domino builds, free building and so much more!!

We are also wrapping up our very first session of Chemistry in the Kitchen in Waunakee the kids had a blast, learned a lot and half of them prefer the blue box of mac and cheese to homemade. LOL!!

Have a great day!!

11/21/2022

Good morning,

We at Engineering for Kids would like to wish you a safe and Happy Thanksgiving.

We hope you have a lot of fun and make some great memories!!
The kids in Chemistry in the Kitchen in Waunakee made side dishes for our Friendsgiving last Wednesday.

They choose mashed potatoes and gravy, corn pudding, and sweet potatoes to make, and we made apple crisp all together for dessert.

The kids in hands on made suspension bridges using spaghetti noodles and gummy candy. We had some great builds and the kids had a fabulous time!!