Challenger Learning Center-St. Louis

3..2..1..BLAST OFF!! May all of our Ferguson-Florissant School District students and staff have an amazing school year!

Staff are testing out the photo booth to get ready for the Boeing STEAM and Space Day — happening TOMORROW!

Volunteers needed for this coming Saturday, June 22!
You won't have to carry the world on your shoulders, or even explain tricky science, just help families to complete short table-top STEAM activities.
We are estimating 400 people for the Boeing STEAM and Space Day , and could use some extra volunteers to help explain activities to families -- especially during the 12:00-4:00 shift.
Tween /teens ages 12 and up can volunteer with a parent, or teens ages 16 and up can volunteer on their own.
Sign up here by Tuesday! https://forms.gle/aR785RrMHJ2JRnom9

Calling all families! Come to the Boeing STEAM & Space Day, hosted by Challenger Learning Center, on June 22, 10:00-3:00, at STEAM Academy High School in Ferguson! The FREE event includes lunch, rocket launches, mini space missions, hovercraft rides, family and teen engineering workshops, and STEAM activities galore.

Walk-ins are welcome, but registration is encouraged as spots for some activities are limited. Families can sign up at BoeingSTEAM.eventbrite.com

Special thanks to The Boeing Company for not only sponsoring the event, but providing the volunteers who make it possible!

2024 Boeing STEAM and Space Day Join us for a FREE one-day event filled with STEAM activities, workshops, and space missions for students in grades K-12 and their families!

The eclipse is happening Monday April 8 between 1:55-2:05pm. STL will experience a partial solar eclipse with 99.1% totality! This means that in order to safely view the sun, you will need solar viewing glasses. We have them available for $1 each. If you still need them, our center will be open at 8:30 Monday morning!

On this day 38 years ago, seven brave explorers were lost in the Challenger shuttle disaster.

The Challenger crew of the STS-51L mission included Francis R. (Dick) Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith A. Resnik, Ronald E. McNair, Ellison S. Onizuka, Gregory B. Jarvis, and Christa McAuliffe.

We honor their legacy everyday by continuing their mission to inspire future innovators, creators, and explorers.

Calling all Educators! Its never too early to spare a thought for summer especially during all of this winter weather.🥶

Join us for three days of classroom-friendly hands-on gadgetry, tinkering, and technology integration that will take you from “What’s a screwdriver?” to “Hand me that soldering iron” in no time. Bring a fellow teacher for a discount.

July 16-18
Cost: $200 or two teachers for $300
Click this link to sign up today! http://tinyurl.com/EduMaker2014

Need a last minute gift idea? How about a week at one of our summer space adventures? We have Astronaut Training Camps, Drone Explorers, Rocket Lab, and Maker Camp all designed to inspire your future innovator, creator, and explorer!

Register today at
ChallengerSTL.org/summer-camps/

We would like to thank the Ferguson Florissant School District for their continued support and by helping our building get a brand new roof to ring in the new year!

We want to send a giant THANK YOU out to all who joined us in celebrating our 20th Anniversary today! It was spectacular meeting so many in our community and sharing our love for STEM with everyone. We hope that all who attended had a blast!

We also want to thank our STEM partners for providing fun experiences for all who attended! Thank you! AIAA - The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics STL, Limitless Space Institute STL, The Audubon Center at Riverlands, Gateway Youth Aeronautical Foundation, Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri, Little Creek Nature Area, NSBE St. Louis Gateway Metro Professionals, St. Charles Community College, St. Louis Space Frontier, Women in Aviation St.Louis - Women With Wings, Gateway Region YMCA

In just 3 days we’ll be celebrating our 20th anniversary and launching into our next 20 years of inspiring future innovators, creators, and explorers. We would love for you to come celebrate with us!

Challenger Learning Center-St. Louis 20th Anniversary Celebration Come celebrate and launch us into the next 20 years of STEM innovation!

Come help us celebrate 20 years!

Challenger Learning Center-St. Louis 20th Anniversary Celebration Come celebrate and launch us into the next 20 years of STEM innovation!

Challenger Learning Center-St. Louis 20th Anniversary Celebration Come celebrate and launch us into the next 20 years of STEM innovation!

If you love all things STEM and enjoy sharing your passion for learning, we'd love to have you join our team!

Learn more and apply now at Fergflor.org

Interested in all things STEM? Do you love to share your passion for space and science? We would love to have you join our team! Learn more and apply at Fergflor.org/district

The Boeing STEAM and Space Day is going strong! Come on over NOW to test out the flight simulator, ride a hovercraft, or test a helicopter in a wind turbine like these kids are!
Free lunch until 1pm, and over 20 activities until 3pm.

Be sure to sign up soon! We still have a few spots left in our Stellar Educator Maker Camp and we would love to see you there!

Educators! As the countdown gets closer to the beginning of summer, don't forget to register for our Stellar Educator Maker Camp!

It is July 11-13 and will be full of hands-on STEM based activities and projects to take back to your classroom to engage your students even more!

Learn more and sign up today: tinyurl.com/TeacherMakerCamp

Educators! As the countdown gets closer to the beginning of summer, don't forget to register for our Stellar Educator Maker Camp!

It is July 11-13 and will be full of hands-on STEM based activities and projects to take back to your classroom to engage your students even more!

Learn more and sign up today: tinyurl.com/TeacherMakerCamp

Celebrate STEM Week with STL STEM Ecosystem Learn more> bitly.stemweekstl

Live tour starts in just a few minutes— 10:15 CT!

STEM Week Space Day 2023

We're teaming up with STL STEM Ecosystem to give a LIVE tour of one our missions! Tune in next Monday April 24th to join the live stream and learn more about we are educating the future generation of explorers.

We are excited to announce the return of our Teacher Maker Summer Camp for 2023!

Learn more and sign up today: https://tinyurl.com/TeacherMakerCamp

This is an opportunity for educators to go more in-depth with STEM topics and perhaps step outside their comfort zones and generate some fresh new ideas that they can use back in their classrooms. Participants will learn to use tools like drills, saws, soldering irons, Cricuts, and laser cutters to make educational objects like telescopes, rocket launchers, Arduino-powered houses, suitcase speakers and more to enhance your classroom projects.

We are excited to announce Robert Powell as our interim executive director! Robert has been with the Challenger Learning Center - St. Louis for 14+ years as the education director and has played a key role in the development of our amazing hands-on STEM programming. We are confident his leadership will open the door to new opportunities.

After 20+ years at the Challenger Learning Center, we are sadly saying goodbye to our out-of-this-world Executive Director Tasmyn Front! With a love and passion for everything STEM and space, she enabled thousands of students and children in the St. Louis community to launch their dreams in STEM related careers and activities. The CLC STL crew wishes her well as she begins this next chapter of her career as the CEO of Launch Code! We love and appreciate everything you've given over the last 2 decades! Thank you Tasmyn!

We are so grateful for the support of the Missouri American Water CharitableFoundation that will help us to continue to inspire the future generation of innovators, makers and engineers!

Today we're honoring 7 teachers who are inspiring the next generation of explorers! We couldn't host this amazing event without our generous sponsors. THANK YOU EducationPlus

Tomorrow is our 2023 Inspiring Teacher Awards and we will be live streaming the event online. Join us live tomorrow night from this link->

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This Thursday we're hosting our annual Inspiring Teacher Awards! Please help us celebrate of 2023 nominees, along with our inspiring Keynote Speaker Akberet Boykin Farr, Vice President Diversity, and Social Responsibility, Emerson. https://www.challengerstl.org/inspiring-teacher-awards/

Satellite launched by Challenger Shuttle in '84 will have its last mission and come back down to earth this weekend.

NASA satellite sent into space by Sally Ride in the 80s will come crashing down this weekend. But the odds of being hit are 1-in-9,400. NASA said the concern of being hit by falling debris from the satellite is "very low," maintaining there's only a 1 in 9,400 chance anyone is harmed.