Mad Science is an educational enrichment company that offers school assemblies and after-school classes year round throughout the United States and in many countries. Topics include chemistry, crime scene forensics and physics subjects, including Newton's laws of motion.
Mad Science
8360 Bougainville Street, Suite 201
Montreal, QC
Canada H4P 2G1
1-800-586-5231, extension 104
madscience.org
Engineering brings together math and science to make a product. Play-Well TEKnologies offers school assemblies, camps and extracurricular classes based on Legos blocks. While the preschool class focuses on building themes, such as airports and castles, older kids construct cities, catapults and motorized machines. Play-Well is located in California, Colorado and Washington and appears to be expanding soon to five more U.S. states.
Play-Well TEKnologies
216 Greenfield Avenue
San Anselmo, CA 94960
415-460-5210
play-well.org
The Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (IMACS) teaches after-school and weekend enrichment classes as well as summer camps in Connecticut, Florida, Missouri and North Carolina. IMACS emphasizes its avoidance of "drill-and- kill" instruction through the use of "fun games, stories and puzzles to teach children logical reasoning and math skills."
IMACS
7435 NW 4th Street
Plantation, FL 33317
866-634-6227
imacs.org
The Science Club for Girls meets after school at public schools, churches and community centers in Cambridge and Newton, Massachusetts. Groups of 8 to 10 girls, from kindergarten to seventh grade, meet with volunteer mentor-scientists and teen aides for classes covering a broad range of sciences. This group's website offers parents in other areas information about how to start a similar club.
Science Club for Girls
P.O. Box 390544
Cambridge, MA 02139
scienceclubforgirls.org
GEMS Club, which is a national movement affiliated with the American Association of University Women, focuses on reversing the trend of girls "opting out of the worlds of math, science and technology." According to the GEMS website, there are now 20 clubs in the United States. For guidelines on how to start one, visit the GEMS website.
AAUW
1111 Sixteenth Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
800-326-AAUW
aauw.org
gemsclub.org
Teachers and other adults in the United Kingdom who are interested in forming a STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) club for children can receive training and resources from The Science Museum, which is based in London's South Kensington area and is 153 years old.
The Science Museum
Exhibition Road
London South Kensington
SW7 2DD
Great Britain
0-870-870-4868
sciencemuseum.org.uk