After-School STEaM at Almaden

Drop in on Tuesday afternoons in at 4:30 p.m. for a new STEaM adventure every week. Active engagement with STEaM promotes academic success. Topic list is subject to change, please check back or call the branch for up-to-date details. Suggested ages vary, please refer to individual program descriptions. Free, with limited capacity. Tickets will be distributed starting 60 minutes before the program. Aug 18 - The Science of Soap: Floating Drawing & Pepper ExperimentParticipants will learn about the properties of soap, how it cleans and why that's important by creating their own floating drawings and playing with adhesion and repulsion properties of pepper and soap. Aug 25 - Logic GamesWork individually or in teams to solve a variety of logic puzzles.*please note that the Mental Math: Multiplication program has been RESCHEDULED for Sept 22 and the other math topics have moved accordingly Sept 1 - Marble Run FunHarness the force of gravity as you create your own marble run. Sept 8 - Lego Engineering Challenge (please note topic change*)In this workshop, children will be encouraged to build and solve problems. Children will learn to brainstorm and build with Lego® bricks, and then to redesign and build as they face challenges. For children ages 5 and up. Volcanoes (will be rescheduled at a later time)Learn about the different types of volcanoes and create your own eruption with common household ingredients. Sept 15 - Spike Robotics Code Quest Learn to code a pre-built Lego Spike robot to move around and collect components using a block-based coding language similar to Scratch. Sept 22 - Mental Math: MultiplicationChildren have the opportunity to learn and practice multiplication skills with a focus on understanding how multiplication works and is related to addition. Oct 6 - Wind Turbine EngineeringIn this hands-on workshop, participants will build their own working wind turbines using everyday household items. Through fun, interactive experiments, they will…