Science clubs at Da Vinci Science Center are all about having the most fun with science! Each meeting, participants will explore different sciences, tinker with modern technology, and build new skills that will help them navigate life in the 21st century. Science Center educators are actively involved in making sure everyone works together, practices good communication techniques, and remains focused on the day’s objective.
You and your child’s health and safety is always our first priority. Science Clubs at Da Vinci Science Center have extensive health and safety procedures and staff training in place every year. In light of COVID-19, the Da Vinci Science Center team has updated these procedures extensively, informed by current recommendations from local, state, and federal health officials, agencies and authorities, including CDC guidelines.
Young Inventors: Idea LabGrades 5-8, Sundays, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Starting 10/3, $195
Grow your ideas into great solutions and come experiment with us! Combining innovation, curiosity, and creativity, we’ll take problem-solving to the next level as we grow and develop our ideas to meet the patent standard of unique, unknown, and unexpected. Together, we’ll learn and apply advanced building and making skills to transform ideas into prototypes. Prototypes created in Idea Lab have the exciting potential to grow into solutions for everyday problems. Come invent with us! Concepts focused on in this club include creativity, problem-solving, idea generation, and introduction to entrepreneurship, across eight (8) weeks of exploration. Idea Lab is a prerequisite for the Patent Lab program.
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STEAM ClubGrades K-5, Wednesdays, 5:30-7 p.m., Starting 10/6, $195
STEAM Club is back for the Fall of 2021 at Da Vinci Science Center! This program will take place for eight (8) weeks on Wednesday evenings. Children in K-5th grade will work alongside a professional STEAM educator to explore the world of science, technology, engineering, art, and math – just like Leonardo da Vinci! Each week we’ll practice our observation skills, ask questions, design creative solutions to problems, conduct experiments, and learn all about how science, technology, engineering, art, and math are intimately related to one another.
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FIRST® LEGO® League: ExploreGrades 2-4, Sundays, 2-4 p.m., Starting 10/10, $995
FIRST® is a not-for-profit organization that encourages kids to explore science and technology through collaboration with mentors and teammates. In the spirit of FIRST’s® mission and values, our programs focus on building self-confidence and STEM skills by providing kids with an inclusive and respectful environment.
FIRST® LEGO® League: Explore is designed for students in 2nd-4th grade. This program will be offered continually through the 2021-2022 season, beginning in mid-October and concluding in early April. Each segment will build upon the prior knowledge of the students in that class.
Student teams will investigate real-world challenges and learn about how scientists are tackling them. After exploring the many ways science can be used to solve these problems, students build and program a motorized LEGO® model using the LEGO® WeDo 2.0 to present their findings. This year’s theme asks students to reimagine our global transportation system and the transporting, sorting, and delivering of cargo across the world! For an introduction to the ideas driving this season of FIRST® LEGO® League, please see this video: https://youtu.be/eJSDHC_9Sxk and the season teaser video: https://youtu.be/zUJ84gO1Z7g
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FIRST® LEGO® League: ChallengeGrades 4-8, Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Starting 10/13, $995
FIRST® is a not-for-profit organization that encourages kids to explore science and technology through collaboration with mentors and teammates. In the spirit of FIRST’s® mission and values, our programs focus on building self-confidence and STEM skills by providing kids with an inclusive and respectful environment.
FIRST® LEGO® League: Challenge is designed for students in 4th-8th grade. This program will be offered continually through the 2021-2022 season, beginning in mid-October and concluding in early April. Each segment will build upon the prior knowledge of the students in that class.
Student teams will investigate real-world challenges and learn about how scientists are tackling them. After exploring the many ways science can be used to solve these problems, students build and program a motorized LEGO® EV3 that must navigate a challenge mat while successfully completing various tasks and present their final research project to a panel of judges. This year’s theme asks students to reimagine our global transportation system and the transporting, sorting, and delivery of cargo across the world! For an introduction to the ideas driving this season of FIRST® LEGO® League, please see this video: https://youtu.be/eJSDHC_9Sxk and the season teaser video: https://youtu.be/zUJ84gO1Z7g
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Young Inventors: Patent LabGrades 5-8, Sundays, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Starting 1/23, $245
After you’ve honed your problem-solving skills in Idea Lab, develop your idea into something worthy of a U.S. patent! Students will be invited to participate in this program based on the ideas, work ethic, and maturity they showed in Idea Lab. Over the course of 9 sessions, they will learn basic patent-drafting skills via a mock invention. They then have the opportunity to apply those lessons to the patent draft of their own idea. Concepts focused on in this club include patent writing and patent preparation. Registrants must complete the Idea Lab program before beginning Patent Lab. An early-bird discounted rate of $195 is available to advance registrants through November 30 with discount code PATENT22.
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