FALL 2023
Classes are starting up soon, check with your local school for details.
Now is the time to contact your school’s PTA about having us in for after school enrichment classes! Please contact us soon, class slots fill up quickly! Have a great summer!
Amusement Parks Learning Science can be so much fun, while creating Amusement Parks rides.
Check your local school and see if they are having an Ascencly class, if not, ask your PTA to contact us. Explore your creativity by building some of the most famous buildings in the world, explore nature, space, or sea life. The possibilities are endless. Learn to use pieces in unconventional ways while building great …
Spring 2023 Classes – Creative Engineering with LEGOS Read More »
Join us for LEGO Skills and Creativity Camp: Design a House starting next week, July 26th from 1:00-3:00 pm eastern time. Design and create a house with LEGO bricks. Plan your design, create a blueprint, explore design choices specifically related to LEGO bricks. Construct furniture to the scale of your house. Register here.
I have heard it from many parents, “My kid’s LEGO® skills are already very advanced, I’m looking for something to challenge her (him).” So how can you meet their needs and keep them moving forward? Below are 10 suggestions to get you started. Keep them building. The old adage practice makes perfect rings true here. Have …
The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated Ascendly’s move toward teaching online. We’ve learned a lot and we’ve been lucky to start with such great content, instructors, and students.
For those of us who are looking for last minute holiday gifts, we loved these ideas from Melinda Gates. It’s great to see so many people innovating products designed for young scientists. Just about every kid we know is a scientist at heart. (Don’t you have to be to figure out this world?) Finding toys and games …
Ascendly has expanded to Massachusetts! We are excited to bring our great classes to students in the Boston metro area. Our first schools are in Belmont and we are eager to expand to other towns. Please contact us if you are interested in bringing Ascendly into your school and let us know if you have …
I think I’ve made the perfect never-fail chocolate chip cookie recipe. This recipe, the culmination of a crazy amount of experimenting, makes about 8 cookies – basically a half batch. I think of this as my engineering experiment in the kitchen. I love chocolate chip cookies, and have made them many times over the year, …