Thank You For Supporting Us! – Prairie STEM’s Open House at The Mastercraft

We celebrated our opening with treats, esports, hovercrafts, Thor’s Hammer, NeuroTrainer, and fire! Everyone had a great time! Our new location is 1111 N 13th St Suite 307, Omaha, NE 68102-4203, in The Mastercraft. A big Thank You to all that came out and supported us with our Open House yesterday! We love sharing what […]

Prairie STEM’s STEM Sampler is its Second Week

Summer camps are in full swing! We are excited to host in-person camps at The Mastercraft building downtown. This week we have 17 students attending our STEM Sampler Camp. Check out what our STEM Sampler camp has been up to… This camp is three different camps in one: programming, Science Lab, and robots. In programming, […]

Prairie STEM’s World Drumming Camp Began Today

World Drumming is an inter-generational program where people can make music immediately and enjoy doing it. This program generates team-building, self-esteem, leadership, cooperation, cultural diversity, respect, while using drums to make music. When people work together as a team they become stronger and create something really amazing!  Mark Irwin is a Lincoln middle school instrumental music teacher, […]

Prairie STEM’s Careers in STEAM Camp Began Today

In Careers in STEAM today, we began the day with an activity on how quickly viruses can spread. It turns out that one infected person can cause an epidemic. There are lots of Science careers and we learned about some of them. The most fun though, was when we got to put on our imaginary […]

School of Sorcery Camp is off to a flying start

School of Sorcery Potions Class – We were sorted into our houses: Leoador named after Leonardo da Vinci, Teslathern named after Nikola Tesla, Johnsonclaw named after Katherine Johnson, and Hopperpuff named after Grace Hopper. Each of us received a vial of liquid, which changed colors once a magical indicator was added. After being sorted we went to our house workstations […]

Prairie STEM Is Busy With Summer Camps

We have 8 camps running this week: Space Camp, Coding Language of the Future, Inventors Camp, Trifecta, Rocket Camp, Robot Camp, and Resin Jewelry. Some of our camps this month are virtual, and some are in-person. Next month, most of our camps will be in-person at our new location at The Mastercraft building. Our Robot […]

Hydroponic Herb Garden Summer Camp

Hydroponic Herb Garden summer camp is being offered at two times this week, 1:00 PM and 7:00 PM. We are learning so much about herbs. Monday was the introduction to herbs and we started our own herb gardens. Tuesday we learned many ways to cook with herbs, as well as how to dry them naturally. […]

Summer Camps Are Beginning This Week at Prairie STEM

This week begins Eureka Drone Camp at UNO. This week they will learn all about drone flying and safety, next week they will learn robotics and coding. Sherman and Lothrop Elementary Schools in OPS will be learning Digital Media, Science, and Engineering for the next four weeks. Drawing in 3-D with Nick also begins today […]

Prairie STEM Summer Camps – Esports Shoutcasting 101

Prairie STEM is offering summer camps for school age students this summer. Shoutcasting 101 is for students in grades 6-12 who enjoy playing Esports games. Shoutcasting is the art of providing commentary during Esports matches for the benefit of the spectators. Shoutcasting is a skill that is much sought-after by colleges and in the professional […]