GRAND OPENING - Kids Explore Robotics & STEM Learning Center - A place to Explore, Discover, Create!
Schedule
Thu Mar 05 2026 at 11:30 am to 08:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
1742 E 116th St, Carmel, IN 46032-3506, United States | Carmel, IN
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Join us for the Grand Opening of Kids Explore Robotics STEM Learning Center! 🎉Celebrate with us as we open our brand-new space dedicated to hands-on robotics and STEM learning for kids 6+. Tour our Robotics Design Studio, explore interactive STEM zones, enjoy live robot demonstrations, and learn about our classes, camps, workshops, and field trips. Come explore, discover, and create with us!
Our mission is to provide fun, meaningful, and hands-on ways to inspire kids in robotics and STEM. Over the past three years, we’ve partnered with schools, libraries, nonprofits, museums, and parks & recreation departments to deliver engaging STEM enrichment. In 2025 alone, we reached over 800 students, reinforcing our commitment to accessible, high-quality STEM education.
If you’re unable to attend on Grand Opening Day — no problem at all! We would still love to host you for a visit anytime after March 5. Just let us know a day/time that works for you, please complete this form to schedule a tour and a FREE Build-a-Robot workshop for your kids.
https://www.kidsexplorerobotics.com/carmel-stem-center-visit
While hands-on robotics is at the heart of what we do, our STEM Center goes beyond robotics. Students are introduced to all areas of STEM through a dedicated STEM Zone featuring interactive displays, hands-on models, and educational videos designed to spark curiosity and deepen understanding.
With over 25 years of engineering experience, I’ve intentionally designed our curriculum and learning environment to ensure concepts are both age-appropriate and technically sound. Every robot used in our programs is designed and built in-house using custom-crafted wooden and 3D-printed parts. This allows students to experience the entire robotics journey—from learning about individual components, to building complete robots, to programming and testing them.
Rather than simply following step-by-step instructions, we focus on helping students understand the “why” behind what they build. This approach strengthens critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and confidence—skills that serve students well in the classroom and beyond.
While many schools offer robotics programs, our approach is unique in its emphasis on deep understanding and meaningful, hands-on learning, even for younger students. Our programs also help prepare students for participation in school robotics teams and competitions. To date, we’ve designed over 30 original robots, each created to inspire creativity and make complex robotics concepts accessible and fun.
We offer programming for students ages 6 and up, including:
* Weekly robotics classes
* Special hands-on workshops
* Summer camps
* STEM Birthday Parties
* Project-based learning experiences
* Field trip opportunities for student groups at our STEM Center
* FREE Tour & Build-a-Robot Workshop
We are offering a FREE Tour & Build-a-Robot Workshop for individual families with kids. This experience includes a guided tour of the STEM Center and a fun, hands-on robot-building activity.
Families can register here:
👉 https://www.kidsexplorerobotics.com/carmel-stem-center-visit
More about our STEM Learning Center:
Here’s a preview of what you and kids can look forward to:
🤖 Robotics Design Lab
Explore a fully equipped lab featuring 3D printers, laser cutters/engravers, and a woodworking studio used to craft custom parts for our original robots. Kids will see how creativity and innovation bring designs to life.
🔩 Interactive Robot Demonstrations
Watch live demos of over 30 original robots — including our drumming robot, pull-up robot, and robotic merry-go-round — all created from custom-crafted wooden and 3D-printed parts that let kids see how robots work from the inside out.
🎮 Tinker Time
Kids will get to tinker with some of our robots and make them perform different actions using buttons and controllers — encouraging experimentation and curiosity.
🧠 Hands-On Robotics Workshop
Kids will build their very own mini robot! Guided by our experienced instructors, they’ll learn about motors, microcontrollers, sensors, and power systems — in a fun and engaging way.
🌈 STEM Zones – Explore, Discover, Create
A discovery space where kids explore every part of STEM — Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math — through hands-on models, experiments, interactive displays, videos, and real-world machines.
* Science Zone – Simple experiments • How things work in the real world
* Technology/Robotics Zone – Robots, coding basics, & design exploration. Also explore emerging technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Artificial Intelligence (AI)—discovering how these innovations work and how they are shaping the world around us.
* Engineering Zone – Simple machines, gears, and real mechanisms. Learn how things work...
* Math Zone – Patterns, puzzles, and problem-solving challenges
These zones make big ideas feel fun, exciting, and accessible for all ages.
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