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April Newsletter 2024

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Spring! Check out the news for this month

  • Last week of Summer Camp Sale
  • We have Officially Moved!
    • New Location
    • Renovations
  • Bigger and Better Things Ahead…
    • Robotics Competitions this year
    • Open lab hours
    • Once a month STEM program
    • Robotics Enrichment program

Last Week of Summer Camp Sale

It’s been a crazy busy 2024 🤪 If you haven’t found the time to sign up or have some questions, reach out to us ASAP so we can get you all signed up before the discount ends.

Summer Camp Enrollment

We have Officially Moved!

All Classes at the New SW HQ

All classes going forward will be held at our new HQ. The remainder of the Spring Session 2024, all Summer Camps 2024, and all our offerings going forward will be held at 1 Charles Blvd, Guilderland, NY 12084 🥳

Renovations

We met with our renovation team, and they will be able to work around us while we are there! We won’t see anyone, but please pardon our mess while the space is being updated. Below, you can see the final plan for the new HQ. New floors, new paint, windows, and walls removed are all part of the reno. It should be all done in time for summer 🔥Some awesome additions will be our dedicated VeX Robotics Arena for e-sport competitions, Virtual Reality, dedicated art/creative space, dedicated workshop/maker space, and Movement-based gaming to have them move their bodies and have fun during breaks!

Bigger and Better Things Ahead

The new SW HQ is going to allow us to offer more amazing opportunities for our local students. We will be providing more details over the coming months, but we wanted to highlight a few ideas 🤓

  • VeX Robotics Competition Program – The new space will allow us to support a VeX Robotics Competition Program. This is a prestigious, competitive e-sport event sponsored by top science & tech companies in the US. It provides many of the benefits of competitive sports while also developing the critical career skills needed in an AI future, such as academic resilience, analytical thinking, and logical reasoning. Learn more about the SW VeX Competition Program and our first orientation on May 3rd here.
  • Open Lab Hours & Bussing 🚌 – Thus far, our STEM Enrichment Program (SEP) has been a teacher-driven weekly, 1.15-guided lab. Each year, we develop a new technical curriculum based on a STEAM (Sci-Tech Eng Art Math) theme to expose students to new ideas, challenge them to develop grit, and learn a growth mindset through hands-on project-based learning. We are working towards student-driven open lab hours starting in the Fall for kids enrolled in our enrichment programs. Students can be dropped off at the lab for 1-2 hours a day, have access to all our lab resources, and continue working on their projects, robotics, and other STEM activities. We are in talks with our local school districts to have students bussed 🚌 directly to SW HQ😃 If you are interested, contact us right away!
  • Monthly STEM Enrichment Program (SEP)  – We want to make our programs more accessible to our families who really want to join but have distance and time constraints. Our new HQ will allow us to offer our amazing SEP monthly for 3 hours, most likely on Saturdays, starting this Fall 🙌Each semester, students will get a total of 12 hours to work on our incredible project-based curriculum, which goes way beyond any standards in the US education system. Our Weekly SEP will be the preferred option for our local families as it will offer more hours, flexible scheduling, and the option for Drop-In Open Lab Hours.   
  • Robotics Enrichment Program (REP) – This Fall, we will launch our first-ever REP. The REP will focus on using Lego Robotics to teach students the fundamentals of robotics. Each semester, we will focus on a new robot build and have some fun & friendly competitions 🔥This will be a great way to introduce students to the world of robotics. This is an excellent complement to our STEAM Enrichment Program (SEP): The SEP is breath-focused, connecting interdisciplinary cross-domain knowledge to develop creative problem-solving skills critical for careers in an AI job landscape, while REP will be more depth-focused for those engineers who love robotics and want to build!
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We love our MOMs!

Come to the lab and have your kids create, learn, and give mom a gift that keeps giving! Together with the STEAM-TEAM, they will use the laser engraver and illustrator software to create Mom a customized flower box for Mother’s day.

They will pick the seeds of their choice, from flowers to herbs, add soil and plant them. Just show up and we will do the rest!

Here is a great piece on the Makerlab event by our local WTEN news =)

https://www.news10.com/top-stories/steamwhiz-helps-kids-build-a-fun-and-scientific-gift-for-mothers-day/

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Winter Session 2021: Starts the week of Jan. 18th

We are happy to announce STEAMwhiz Winter Session 2021: Energy is Everywhere will be starting the week of Jan. 18th!

With science guiding us, monitoring local metrics and statistics, and adhering to and exceeding local, regional, and national safety and health protocols, STEAMwhiz is ready to continue to offer invaluable, in-person labs and empower your NextGen Thinkers & Doers!

Calendar: Winter Session 2021

Jan. 18-22                        All Winter Session Labs will begin

Feb. 15-19                       February Recess: No Regular Scheduled Labs (Possible Make-up Labs)

March 29-Apr. 2             Final Week of Regular Scheduled Labs

Apr. 5-9                           Possible Make-up Labs

STEAMwhiz’s Proactive COVID-19 Plan

Make-ups, Shutdowns, and Prorating

Winter Session 2021 has two-weeks built in exclusively for make-ups.

  • February Break Make-up
  • 2nd week of April Make-up

We will work with you on a case-by-case basis to arrange the make-up times and days. In the unlikely chance we are not able to make up the day, we will prorate the days no questions asked =)

In the event of a shutdown, don’t worry we have a plan in place for that as well. We will offer a combination of live streaming and pre-recorded lab sessions with creative, multi-media content to keep our STEAMwhiz kids discovering, thinking, and creating at home, all while having fun with serious science. Hands-on materials will be checked out via contactless pick-up for these labs.

Lab Policy for Sick Children

Let’s face it, we are going to have sniffles, sneezing, etc. Normal, common-sense policies will apply. If your child is sick help them get better at home and don’t worry about the lab. We will make sure they make them up! Once they are recovered–masks, social distancing, handwashing, dedicated HVAC w/high-level filtration, nightly UV-C lab sanitation, hard-surface wipe downs, temperature checks, etc. will continue to keep the lab safe.

If your child is sick

If your child develops new symptoms here are our guidelines:

  • Let us know that your child is sick 
  • Then do one of the following:

Wait the 10 day COVID-19 quarantine time prescribed by the CDC 

— OR —

Have your child tested at a local COVID-19 test sites

In the event your child(ren)’s school, classroom, or building is placed on pre-cautionary quarantine, please contact us as soon as possible, adhere to the pre-cautionary quarantine regulations, and we will work with you to make-up any missed labs.

Together we can keep a safe environment for our kids to learn during these trying times.

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STEAMwhiz Free Lab – Size, Scale & Filtration

Its Thanksgiving weekend and we want to thank our Capital District community for all the support!

Come join us if you are in the NY capital district Thanksgiving weekend. See the image for details.

Who is this for?


New students ages 7-11 from in NY’s capital district. Parents will get to see the lab and meet the ‘STEAM-team’.

What is it?


A free science lab where kids will explore how size & scale relate to mask filtration.We will be collecting non-perishable food items for @GuilderlandFoodPantry. We ask you to bring some food to donate, if you ‘can’  😉

To RSVP

Message us on fb.com/STEAMwhizNY or use the chat button in the bottom right corner of this page.

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STEAM up your Halloween

Happy Hall-O-STEAM! Kids from the Capital District NY can get hands-on in our lab, learn LED science, and fabricate their own glowing 3D Printed pumpkin! Create a learning POD with up to 4 friends and RSVP today, Oct. 24th – Oct. 31st. Parents are encouraged to join and see the STEAMwhiz method in action! Ages 7-13.

Discover how STEAMwhiz makes serious science, seriously fun and empower your NextGen Thinker(s) to DISCOVER, TEST, ANAYLZE, AND CREATE.

HalloSTEAM Lab

HalloSTEAM Lab

Ready to have your kids get hands-on and learn about science and technology this Halloween?! Hall-O-STEAM by STEAMwhiz is ready to make serious science, seriously fun, and empower your NextGen Thinker(s) to DISCOVER, TEST, ANALYZE, and CREATE. Your children will explore Light-Emitting Diode technology, Computer-Aided Design, and 3D printing under the guidance of our STEAM-team experts to design, create, and take home their very own 3D Printed glowing pumpkins. Ages 7-13.

Any questions? Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us via Facebook or email us.

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