Activities tied to science, technology, engineering, or math
- Archaeology: Activities that explore ancient civilizations, artifacts, excavation basics, cultural anthropology, and the science of uncovering the past.
- Engineering: Activities focused on building, designing, testing, and improving structures, machines, and inventions. Includes bridges, robotics engineering, mechanical systems, automotive basics, and hands‑on problem‑solving challenges.
- Aerospace Engineering: Activities that explore flight, rockets, drones, propulsion, and the engineering behind air and space travel.
- Automotive Engineering: Activities focused on vehicles and movement systems. Includes cars, engines, EVs, bikes, and transportation design.
- Civil Engineering: Activities centered on roads, water systems, public works, and the engineering that supports communities and cities.
- Mechanical Engineering: Activities that explore machines, gears, levers, pulleys, and the physics of moving parts and mechanical systems.
- Product Design: Activities focused on inventing, prototyping, improving everyday objects, and designing solutions to real‑world problems.
- Robotics: Activities that involve building robots, using sensors and motors, programming movement, and designing robotic systems. Includes automation concepts and how robots interact with smart technologies.
- Structural Engineering: Activities that involve designing and constructing bridges, towers, shelters, and other load‑bearing structures.
- Environmental Science: Activities that investigate the natural world and how it works. Includes geology, weather, climate, water systems, natural disasters, sustainability, and environmental impact.
- Life Science: (Biology) Activities that explore living organisms and ecosystems. Includes human biology, plants, animals, microbiology, habitats, and ecological relationships.
- Animals: Activities that explore specific animals, species groups, and wildlife behavior. Includes animal identification, habitats, adaptations, and learning about creatures from insects to mammals.
- Habitats: Activities focused on where plants and animals live and how ecosystems work. Includes forests, oceans, wetlands, deserts, grasslands, and the interconnected relationships between living things and their environments.
- Health: Activities that help youth understand their bodies and how to care for them through healthy routines and basic human biology. Includes body systems, hygiene, sleep, growth, nutrition, screen‑time balance, rest, and building everyday habits that support overall well‑being.
- Microbiology: Activities that explore microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi, and protists. Includes germs, decomposition, fermentation, and microscopic investigation.
- Plant Life: Activities centered on plant science and botany, exploring how plants grow and the ecosystems they support. Includes gardening, trees, flowers, seeds, plant care, and investigating the plant‑based environments that sustain life on Earth.
- Math: Activities that build mathematical thinking and problem‑solving skills. Includes patterns, geometry, measurement, data, probability, statistics, and logic puzzles.
- Physical Science: (Chemistry & Physics) Activities that explore matter, energy, motion, reactions, forces, electricity, magnetism, and the scientific principles that explain how the physical world works.
- Chemistry: Activities that explore how substances interact and change. Includes reactions, mixtures, solutions, states of matter, acids and bases, and the properties of materials.
- Electricity: Activities focused on circuits, static electricity, magnets, electromagnets, conductivity, and how electrical and magnetic forces shape the physical world.
- Energy: Activities that investigate different forms of energy and how energy moves or transforms. Includes heat, light, sound, potential and kinetic energy, and energy transfer.
- Light, Color & Waves: Activities centered on how light behaves, how color is created, and how waves travel. Includes reflection, refraction, sound waves, and basic optics.
- Materials Science: Activities that examine the properties and uses of different materials. Includes metals, plastics, glass, polymers, crystals, and how materials are tested or engineered.
- Matter: Activities that explore solids, liquids, gases, and changes of state. Includes density, buoyancy, viscosity, and how matter behaves under different conditions.
- Motion: Activities that explore how objects move and why. Includes gravity, friction, acceleration, speed, Newton’s laws, and designing experiments that test motion.
- Space: Activities focused on the universe beyond Earth. Includes the solar system, stars and galaxies, rockets, propulsion, space exploration, and careers in space science.
- Aerospace Engineering: Activities that explore flight, rockets, drones, propulsion, and the engineering behind air and space travel.
- Astronomy: Activities that explore stars, constellations, navigation, and objects beyond our solar system. Includes star science, constellation mapping, deep‑space objects, and the history of celestial navigation.
- Planetary Science: Activities centered on planets, moons, asteroids, comets, dwarf planets, and the structure and behavior of our solar system.
- Space Exploration: Activities that explore jobs in space science, astronauts, space missions, space stations, and how humans live and work in space.
- Space Technology: Activities that explore the technology used in space exploration. Includes satellites, rovers, telescopes, and mission design.
- Space Science Experiments: Activities that investigate gravity, microgravity, orbits, light, radiation, and other scientific principles that behave differently in space.
- Technology: Activities that explore digital tools, computing concepts, and modern technology. Includes coding, cybersecurity, electronics, circuits, game design, digital literacy, and emerging technologies.
- Cybersecurity: Activities focused on protecting information, understanding digital risks, safe online behavior, passwords, privacy, and basic security principles. Includes introductory AI safety and how emerging tools affect digital security.
- Digital Arts: Activities exploring creative technology and digital expression. Includes digital drawing, animation, video editing, interactive media, game design, 3D modeling, and creative uses of virtual or augmented reality.
- Digital Literacy: Activities that build foundational technology skills. Includes using devices, navigating software, understanding digital citizenship, smart devices, wearable tech, and learning how everyday technology works.
- Electronics: Activities that explore how electronic components function. Includes circuits, sensors, LEDs, breadboards, microcontrollers, and hands‑on electronics projects.
- Programming: Activities that introduce coding concepts, programming languages, algorithms, and creating simple or complex programs.
- Robotics: Activities that involve building robots, using sensors and motors, programming movement, and designing robotic systems. Includes automation concepts and how robots interact with smart technologies.
