Engineering For Kids

We are happy with the junior engineering class for my 5-​year old at the Stafford location. Every day he asks how many more days until the next class. I wish they offered more weekday classes for this age range with some earlier times. A friend was able to sign her child up for a class at a school only to be refunded when they cross referenced a school roster to be sure he attended there (which he did not)-but that was not obvious to her when enrolling him. Of the two instructors for my son’s class, one is clearly more comfortable and engaged with the kids.

We had a very bad experience at the new Lake Ridge center. I walked in on the instructor screaming at my child for knocking down blocks. He left in tears and I would never subject him to that kind of abuse again.
I found out instructors don’t necessarily have any engineering or educational experience. They refused to give out a syllabus so parents could see what the children would be learning — said people would just steal their curriculum if they did that.

Employees were a no show to a party we booked and paid for two weeks prior to the actual party. No listing of alternate contact numbers besides the store number, which made figuring out this problem even more difficult. Through a coincidence we were able to reach a former employee who linked us up with the manger. Ultimately, he was no help as he said he had no record of the party being scheduled. I had confirmation emails and payment receipts, but still they had to continue to look into it after 40 mins of us already waiting outside a empty, locked store. The day ended with no party, a very sad little boy and irritated parents. I was later able to make contact with the owner and we are working it out. I so badly want to love this place, but can a bad first impression be changed? We will see. TBC…

This is a great place to have your kids go to get exposed to math & science in a fun way. Programs are 6 weeks long, meeting once a week; usually from 6 – 7:30pm weekdays. They do have Sat classes I believe they are at 9am. If you sign up for email notices they sent out coupons on a regular basis before classes start. Coupons are pretty generous at time. They even offer FREE classes, but they fill extremely fast. You have to get when offered., BUT I will say they are accommodating as well. Just offered a free class, couldn’t get my daughter sign up on line; they told me to come back if they had a no show she could take it. We came back and let her into the class.
Kids are taught S.T.E.M. Material but it is
Taught in an entertaining way without them feeling it’s a classroom. Great programs and worth the $ to expose kids 4 – 14 yrs old. Not just for boys either, girls as well.