2024-2025 Classes - Pre-register here to save your spot!

Noblesville - Westfield - Lebanon

Making friends takes 3 ingredients: A common interest, shared experiences and enough time together to grow a connection. I lead classes to create friendships for my family and others in locations across Indianapolis.

  • A minimum of 10 students is required to make a class work so bring a friend! 

  • All classes are drop-off with no parent commitment, however parents are always welcome to observe.

  • The price reflects $10/class hour (except global cooking due to supply costs and any additional STEM competition costs.)

  • All classes include hands-on, teams-based learning through projects, public speaking opportunities, learning with board games and social time for friendships to bloom.

Wednesday Morning 9:30-11:30 - Noblesville

STEM: Technology, Invention, Project Based Learning & Games

Grades 5+

The goal of this STEM program is to provide homeschool students the opportunity to connect and build teams, align projects to enter into multiple competitions and receive mentorship in STEM related topics. Class time will be spent as follows: 1. hands on learning 2. competition projects team work and mentorship 3. Junior Achievement Curriculum. Content and time will be flexible depending on the student needs. There will be project work required outside of class, student projects will require purchasing additional materials depending on the scope of their selected topic. Some competitions require an additional registration fee and all registration and competition dates for 2024-2025 will be communicated as they come available. This is a valuable opportunity for any student considering a college path of education or career in STEM fields. Note: Class content in the hands on portion of class is valuable regardless of student age and teams will be cluster based on age as well as ability and interest. Junior Achievement content is unique and does not duplicate what your student will cover in JA BizTown.

Robotics and drones is hardware dependent and TBD.

Teams and projects for:

  • Future City https://futurecity.org/

  • Invention Convention https://inhub.thehenryford.org/icw/home

  • National Innovator Challenge https://nationalinnovatorchallenge.org/

  • Eco-Science Challenge https://www.indianamuseum.org/eco-science/

  • National STEM Challenge https://nationalstemchallenge.com/

  • Hoosier Science & Engineering Fair https://indianasciencefairs.org/

  • And other completion/award opportunities!

Classes & Lessons

  • Sept. 11 - Construction, attachment techniques, building a tepee challenge

  • Junior Achievement It’s My Business! (Skills covered in this curriculum: Identify personal entrepreneurial characteristics, engage in the process of design thinking to understand a problem, develop a business startup from its ideation, innovation, and market research through its design and prototyping and pitch a new business idea to potential funders.)

  • Sept. 18 - Exploring ramps/wedges, design a sled

  • Junior Achievement It’s My Business!

  • Sept. 25 - Exploring wheels/axels, making balloon powered cars

  • Junior Achievement It’s My Business!

  • Oct. 2 - Exploring pulleys/levers, building catapults

  • Junior Achievement It’s My Business!

  • Oct. 9 - Exploring springs/screws, building zipline racers

  • Junior Achievement Our Nation ( Begin to understand the nation’s free market system and how it supports businesses and careers, experience how entrepreneurial thinking can spur new business and the opportunity for future income, examine career groups and the skills needed for a variety of careers, identify important work-readiness soft skills necessary for career success, explore how the United States is connected to the global economy.

  • Oct. 16 - Exploring circuits/electricity/hydraulics, building an elevator

  • Oct. 23 - Design a pumpkin moving machine

  • Dec. 4 - Design and build a cargo plane

  • Dec. 11 - Design and build an egg drop device

  • Dec. 18 - Design and build a paddle boat

  • Jan. 15 - Design a bow that shoots an arrow

  • Jan. 22 - Competition Project Collaboration

Junior Achievement BizTown

Classes & Lessons

Jan. 29 - Financial Literacy 1/2

Feb. 5 - Financial Literacy 3/4

Feb. 12 - Work and Career Readiness 1/2

Feb. 19 - Job Interviews, Community and Economy 1

Feb. 26 - Community and Economy 2/3

Mar. 5 - Business Management 1/2

Mar. 12 - Business Management 3

Mar. 19 - SIMULATION DAY

Mar. 26 - Virtual Class Debriefing

Wednesday afternoon 1-3 - Westfield

  • Intro Geography (grades 3+) 1:30-3:30pm Sept 11-Oct 23 $140

    This class will lead up to the Westfield Washington Public Library Geography Bee competition in March.

  • Advanced Geography/global cooking (grades 3+) Dec 4-Jan22 $100

    This class will lead up to the Westfield Washington Public Library Geography Bee competition in March.

  • STEM Robotics, drones, game design & more (grades 5+)

  • JA BizTown (grades 4-6) 1:30pm-3:30pm Jan 29-Mar26 $140

Thursday morning in Lebanon

STEM Engineering the 6 simple machines (grades 2-4) 9am-10am Sept 11-Oct. 23 $70

  • JA Intro to Money (grades K-2) 9am-10am Jan 29-Mar12 $70

  • Writing Genres (grades 5+) 9am-10am Dec 4-Jan 22 $50

  • STEM Robotics, drones, game design & more (grades 5+) 10am-12pm Sept 11-Jan 22 $240

  • JA BizTown (grades 4-6) 10am-12pm Jan 29-Mar26 $140

Current list of rotating classes.

If you have a group that is interested in a class, I am a travelling teacher and available to teach at alternate locations or include groups with my current class offerings (JA BizTown is always better with a large group!)

  1. Learning Through Games - A Board Games Series That Covers Core Subjects

  2. STEM Level 1 - 6 Simple Machines

  3. STEM Level 2 - Intro to Engineering

  4. STEM Level 3: Project Based Learning Session 1

  5. STEM Level 4 - Junk Box Wars

  6. STEM Level 5 - Exploring the invention process and creating a unique invention

  7. STEM Level 6 - Entrepreneurship

  8. Geography - Continents of the World

  9. Geography - Exploring Countries Little by Little

  10. Social Studies -

  11. ELA - Literature Genres

  12. ELA - Writing Genres

  13. ELA - Exploring Great Poets

  14. ELA - Tea Time with Beatrix Potter

  15. Public Speaking Club

  16. Science - Blood and Guts

  17. Science - Learning through Interactive Notebooks

  18. Lifeskills Series

  19. Junior Achievement Curriculum - JA BizTown, Ourselves, Our Families, Our Region, Our Nation, More than Money

  20. Music History - Famous Composers

  21. Art History - Famous Artists from Around the World

  22. Theater - Introduction to Theater Styles and Skills

  23. Theater - Exploring Puppetry With Marionettes