Free Middle School STEAM Programs at FAC

Free for 6th / 7th / 8th graders -- WE'RE BACK!

This is a new STEAM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Arts, & Math) after school program on Tuesday afternoons at The Fort Atkinson Club Community Center. Kids from all communities are welcome. Please RSVP here so that we can prepare accordingly.

Activities will be guided and supervised by adults in a safe environment. Every other Tuesday will involve the Arts, and rotating on opposite weeks will be a special MakerSpace project with paper airplanes!

Schedule for future activities:

January 12: Paper Airplane MakerSpace Project
January 19: Art Workshop TBD
January 26: Paper Airplane MakerSpace Project
February 2: Art Workshop TBD
February 9: Paper Airplane MakerSpace Project
February 16: Art Workshop TBD
February 23: Paper Airplane MakerSpace Project

*Let’s get together to solve an engineering problem: How do we design paper airplanes that can survive long-distance, cross-country flight?

A weather balloon will carry paper airplanes up and downwind. The problem is that the edge of space — at 95,000 feet — is not the best place to be flying them ... until now.

For middle school student engineers, this is as close to “rocket science” as it gets. Help us engineer a solution during after-school meetings on two Tuesdays each month, starting Nov. 10, at The Fort Atkinson Club Community Center.

We will design, make and eventually launch our paper airplanes so they fly eastward with the jet stream. We will create a Facebook page for people who find our airplanes to report back where they were found.

This project is sponsored by the Wisconsin Makers, a MakerSpace community workshop with an educational mission. Leading the project is Peter Spangler, a retired technology and engineering teacher and member of the Wisconsin Makers Board of Directors, along with special guests lending their expertise.

There is no cost to participate.

**You don't have to be a trained artist to appreciate the beauty, education, and science behind some of the world's greatest artists. Each week we'll learn a little bit about an influential artist and then create a work of crafty art in their style. We'll be using household items, a few art supplies, and a whole lot of creativity to complete our own inspired art.

Upcoming: M.C. Escher, Alexander Calder, & Georgia O'Keeffe