22 STEM and STEAM Focused Programs Around Atlanta
Technology and creative thinking make so many advances in our daily lives it’s often hard to keep up. It’s up to parents to take advantage of local resources. Here are schools, camps, programs and museums that emphasize STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) for kids.
Atlanta Academy
Atlanta Academy’s Innovation Center takes 21st Century learning to the next level by providing tools, space and opportunity for students to discover, problem-solve, build prototypes and collaborate as they bring ideas (and baby chicks) to life. The Center is a great mix of art, engineering, creativity and analytics, so every student can have the ability to excel.
Atlanta International School
Primary-year students are introduced to computer science, information technology and digital literacy through classroom inquiry. The secondary years focus on social entrepreneurialism, coding and computer science with the option to achieve a professional certification and continue in grades 11-12 with a two-year computer science course.
Atlanta Speech School
Atlanta Speech School’s STEAM programming begins in the Martha West Looney Learning Commons, where each child grows the strongest foundation for all types of learning. Deep thinking is fueled, complex problem solving is modeled, and collaboration is experienced.
Camp Invention
Camp Invention is a STEM summer program that turns curious students into innovative thinkers. Led by local teachers, this program has tapped into kids’ natural curiosity since 1990, giving them the opportunity to become innovators through teamwork and immersive, hands-on creative problem-solving.
Chattahoochee Nature Center
Educational and outreach programs at Chattahoochee Nature Center have experienced naturalists teach you during a unique program and learning opportunity. Explore the 127 acres on the Chattahoochee River, learn all about your backyard at the Discovery Center, see the birds of prey in the aviaries of the Wildlife Walk and more.
Children’s Museum of Atlanta
Improve STEAM skills at the Museum with daily programs, including the Super Spectacular Science Show, Art Studio and Build It Lab. Permanent exhibits include “Step Up to Science,” featuring the inner workings of the human body, the wonder of light and the technology of robots and “Tools for Solutions” features simple machines for building.
The Clarian Academy
This STEMu Preschool offers Pre-K3, Kindergarten, and K-1 programs and focuses on science, technology, engineering, math, and music. The school’s motto is Play, Learn and Grow with STEM! The Clarian Academy provides programs that fit the modern-day family’s ultimate schooling needs.
Club SciKidz
Camps provide an opportunity for kids to see how science works in the real world. Options include experiments and projects in Video Game Creation, Robotics, Veterinary Science, Crime Scene Investigation, Paleontology, Engineering, Space, Biology, Chemistry, Oceanography, LEGO Robotics, Medicine, Programming, 3-D Printing, Drones and more.
Genesis Innovation Academy
Offering single-gender, STEM-focused academies for boys and girls, Genesis Innovation Academy scholars are viewed as intelligent individuals who are capable of investigating, discovering and thinking about solutions to many problems on their own. Serving grades K-10, this charter school is open to all Georgia students.
Georgia Connections Academy
GACA is a tuition-free public online school for K-12 students. At the GACA Steam Academy, students participate in collaborative STEAM LiveLessons, STEAM-focused clubs and school events, and character education. The high school STEAM curriculum allows for customization and specialization, dual enrollment and places an emphasis on college and career readiness.
High Museum of Art
The High has programs and play areas designed just for kids, including The Greene Family Learning Gallery, with an open art studio and a multi‑sensory gallery. Every second Sunday of the month, families gain free admission to experience special family-focused programs. At summer camp, young artists explore, create, and showcase their artwork.
The Life School
At this innovative Atlanta high school, students learn through interactive projects, off-campus experiences, professional internships, project-based courses, and student-run businesses. Learning is driven by student interests and goals in a real-world, personalized, and exploration-focused experience.
Mount Paran Christian School
MPCS is an official Project Lead The Way® school. Students are engaged in STEAM as investigators, experimenters, designers, and makers with a hands-on curriculum or honors-level engineering. Eagle Robotics begins in second grade and free PreK STEAM classes are offered to toddlers and preschoolers in the community.
The Mount Vernon School
Through design thinking, project-based learning and maker, design and engineering efforts, students engage with their community to innovate. Students collaborate with for-profit and non-profit organizations, create bio-engineering solutions, digital blueprints and more. This learning naturally integrates science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Museum of Aviation National STEM Academy
The National STEM Academy offers field trip and individual programs that integrate innovative, hands-on STEM disciplines through the Heritage, ACE (Ask. Challenge. Educate.), Mission Quest, and the Educator Resource Center programs. Rigorous, goal-setting experiences challenge participants to solve problems.
North Cobb Christian School
STEAM begins in preschool and culminates with the STEM Academy, a magnet program for 9th-12th grade, with tracks for engineering, science/medical and making. The innovative NCCS Upper School houses a Make Shop and SOAR Lab, where designs come to life. Students empathize with real-world problems and create iterative solutions to impact our world.
Science Akadémeia, the Atlanta Preschool of Science
At Science Akadémeia, children cultivate their innate curiosity while receiving a foundation for math, art, technology, language, and literacy. A focus on early immersion, using the engineering design steps integrated with the scientific method experimentations, cultivate a child’s ability to develop a scientific thinking process that will last a lifetime.
St. Benedict’s Episcopal Day School
St. Benedict’s prepares scholars for a growing STEAM job market and to increase diversity in STEAM by exposing minorities and girls to STEAM educational content. Activities focus on Design Thinking, Engineering Design Process, the Scientific Method, and Creative Expression. These methods increase student engagement, participation, and learning.
Stemtree
Stemtree’s focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics aligns with today’s emphasis on STEM. Children are nurtured through fun, hands on learning built upon a core scientific curriculum, providing the edge needed succeed – in the classroom, for a future career, or just having fun. After-school and homeschool programs, camps and more.
The Walker School
From early code work in the Primary School and hands-on laboratory work in the Lower School, to an award-winning robotics program in the Middle School and internship opportunities with the Centers for Disease Control and Georgia Tech in our Upper School, Walker’s STEM program boasts experiential opportunities for students ages 3-18.
Wesleyan School
Wesleyan School’s STEM program mission is for every student to discover and develop their unique calling from God as a problem solver. The School offers courses in computer science, engineering design, architecture and more to help fulfill this mission.
Woodward Academy
Woodward Academy’s STEAM program emphasizes not just learning content, but designing, building and creating. Students at all levels experience STEAM-driven learning opportunities in their arts, science and mathematics classes as well as special attention through an interdisciplinary STEAM curriculum.
