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Featured · 29 November 2025
The gap between reading about a circuit and closing one with your own hands is not a difference of degree. Children who build early do not just learn more science, they form a different relationship with not knowing the answer yet. Here is what we see in the room, week after week.
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Three hours, fifteen children, and a room full of finished builds by 12:00. What a mini camp morning actually looks like from the inside.
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How a session runs, from the opening question to the moment they carry the build out of the door.
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Materials from the recycling bin, an hour, and a working machine at the end of it.
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Overhangs, warping and the useful frustration of watching the first attempt come off the bed wrong.
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A practical run-through of a STEM party, written for the parent doing the organising.
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Every day the district is closed, and what is running on each one.
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