STEAM camps · Grades 2–6 · Tampa, FL
Where student innovators build something real.
Robotics, engineering, invention — camps designed and led by a career educator with a doctorate in curriculum. No worksheets, no screens-for-the-sake-of-screens. Every camp ends with something they built, tested, and can't stop talking about.
Educator-built
Real projects
Safety first
Honest pricing
One company, every school calendar
Camps for every season
Saturday Spark Camps
Our signature 3-hour Saturday camps, monthly or twice per month. One morning, one real build, one proud student innovator. $59 with materials and snacks included.
See datesWinter Break Camps
Multi-day camps over winter break — Code & Create and Mission Mars, with more time to go deeper on every build.
Join the waitlistSummer Academy
Six themed full-week experiences, from Bridge Builders to City of 2050. Do one week or all six — never the same build twice.
Join the waitlistSchools, troops, and community groups: we also run camps on your campus. Partner with us
Now registering · Fall 2026
Upcoming camps
Your first camp is $69 — every additional camp is just $59.
Universal Academy of Florida
Saturday, October 24
Intro to Robotics & Color Coding
Saturday, November 7
Bridge Builders: Design & Load Test
Saturday, December 5
Mission to Mars
90+
lesson plans in the Code & Create library
3+
STEAM disciplines in every single build
16
student innovators max per classroom
100%
of staff Level 2 background screened
Each session
How a camp works
Spark challenge
Every camp opens with a challenge worth solving. Curiosity first, instructions second.
Build in teams of 4
Student innovators design and build together — real materials, real tools, real teamwork.
Test and iterate
First versions rarely work. That's the point. They test, adjust, and try again.
Present and/or compete
The last 30 minutes belong to the showcase: presentations, head-to-head runs, proud parents.
Flagship & launch camp
Code & Create
Student innovators program a robot to navigate an environment they design, then compete head-to-head. Our kit set comes with more than 90 lesson plans, so a student can attend Code & Create every month and never repeat an activity.
One camp, at least three STEAM disciplines: computational thinking and sensors (technology), algorithms and logic (math), robot mechanics (engineering), and designing the environment the robot navigates (art).
See datesExpanding as we grow
New themes on the way
Bridge Builders
Design and load-test a bridge, then draft a dream playground.
The Science of Beauty
Grow crystal art, make natural dyes, visualize sound.
Mission Mars
Build a rover and design a habitat that solves for food, water, and energy.
Inventors & Entrepreneurs
Prototype a product, brand it, price it, pitch it — STEAM Shark Tank.
City of 2050
Design a future city and present it to parents.
Winter break and summer academies run these themes as full-week experiences. Winter camp · Summer academy
Keep it going
Take-home kits
Keep the spark going at home. Add a kit at checkout and the building doesn't stop when camp does.
Designed by a Doctor of Education
This is curriculum, not childcare
Every STEM SPARK camp is built by career educators on the same standards a school curriculum answers to: clear learning objectives, deliberate scaffolding, and assessment you can see — because it drives across the floor or holds a stack of books.
The research is consistent: children learn STEM by doing STEM. Project-based learning, productive struggle, and presenting your own work beat worksheets every time. That's the whole architecture of our three hours.
The method, in depth →Objectives
Scaffolding
Iteration
Showcase
Safety & security
Run like a school, because we come from schools
Level 2 background screening for every adult. A 16:2 student-to-staff ratio. Sign-in and sign-out at the door, authorized pickup names on file, allergy-aware snacks. Full general liability coverage. It's the standard we held ourselves to for decades in school leadership — we didn't lower it to run camps.
Bring STEM SPARK to your school, troop, or center.
We handle staff, insurance, materials, registration, and cleanup. You bring the families.
Good questions
Parents ask us
What if my kid has never coded?
Perfect. Every camp starts from zero and scales up. Teams mix experience levels on purpose, and the lead teacher meets every student innovator where they are.
Do they take the robot home?
No — the robotics kits are professional-grade and reusable, which is how we keep the price at $59. Take-home kits are available as an add-on if they want to keep building.
Is staff background checked?
Yes. Every adult on our team is Level 2 background screened, and we're fully insured. If they can't work at a school, they can't work with us.