STEAM Resources
This page connects students of all ages, parents, and teachers to just a few of the many STEAM resources, programs, and other learning opportunities provided both in-person and online. Gique believes that STEAM learning shouldn't end when students leave their classrooms or our programs and workshops. Check out the resources below to stay inspired in STEAM!
Online Resources
MIT App Inventor →
MIT App Inventor is an innovative beginner's introduction to programming and app creation that transforms the complex language of text-based coding into visual, drag-and-drop building blocks. The simple graphical interface grants even an inexperienced novice the ability to create a basic, fully functional app within an hour or less.
Codecademy →
Learn to code interactively, for free through different challenges in your web browser. Codecademy is an online interactive platform that offers free coding classes in 12 different programming languages including Python, Java, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, and Sass, as well as markup languages HTML and CSS.
Scratch →
Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art... and share your creations on the web. It provides a stepping stone to the more advanced world of computer programming.
Computer Clubhouse →
Founded in 1993 by The Computer Museum (now a part of the Museum of Science, Boston) in collaboration with MIT Media Lab, the Clubhouse encourages young people around the world to explore their own ideas, develop new skills, and build confidence in themselves through the use of technology. The Clubhouse is a free program for Boston area youth ages 10-18.
Dash →
Dash teaches HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, which are the building blocks of designing websites, through fun projects you can do in your web browser. Learn how to design and build websites and Tumblr layouts as you move through the tutorials.
Khan Academy →
Learn how to program drawings, animations, and games using JavaScript & ProcessingJS, or learn how to create webpages with HTML & CSS. You can share whatever you create, explore what others have created and learn from each other.
EdX →
EdX is an online learning destination and online course provider, offering high-quality science, technology, engineering, art, and math courses from the world's best universities and institutions to learners everywhere for free.
Coursera →
Coursera is an education platform that provides universal access to the world's best education, partnering with top universities and organizations worldwide to offer courses online for anyone to take. Explore a variety of topics, like computing, not just coding at Coursera.
Minecraft →
Minecraft is a game about breaking and placing blocks. At first, people build structures to protect against nocturnal monsters, but as the game grew players worked together to create wonderful, imaginative things.
After Hours Programming →
After Hours Programming teaches you the fundamentals of web development and not just programming. You will learn how to create amazing websites through programming and design tutorials. The web development tutorials are designed for you to move through them in order to have an overall understanding of web design and development.
Tynker →
With Tynker's revolutionary approach, kids learn to code using visual code blocks that represent real programming concepts. They progress to text languages like JavaScript and Python as they continue to play through 2,000+ interest-driven activities.
Certstaffix Training →
Certstaffix® Training specializes in providing corporate computer software classes nationwide. Our instructors are professional trainers and utilize hands-on exercises to reinforce lecture.
Varsity Tutors →
Varsity Tutors has hundreds of summer camps available, the majority of them totally free for students! Classes range from K-12 and any learner is sure to find a class that interests them. Some camps are led by celebrities like Coyote Peterson (Animal Planet Expert) and Phil Cook (TikTok Chemist).
Local Out-of-School Time Enrichment Programs
Science Club for Girls →
Science Club for Girls provides girls-specific programming by connecting girls in K-12 grades, especially those from underrepresented groups, with female mentor-scientists through free science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs in a fun, nurturing, interactive environment.
Girls Who Code →
Girls Who Code is a nonprofit organization which aims to support and increase the number of women in computer science. The organization runs programs which teach computing and programming skills to high school girls, including their free 7-week Summer Immersion Programs for current 10th-11th grade girls to learn coding and get exposure to tech jobs.
Resilient Coders →
Resilient Coders believes in social justice through economic empowerment, and in the opportunity for meritocracy in tech. They think holistically about the school-to-workforce pipeline, offering a chaining series of programs that guide our hackers through the extensive journey of learning web development.
Black Girls CODE →
Black Girls CODE is devoted to showing the world that black girls can code, and do so much more. By reaching out to the community through workshops and after school programs, Black Girls CODE introduces computer coding lessons to young girls from underrepresented communities in programming languages such as Scratch or Ruby on Rails.
MIT MITES, E2, and MOSTEC →
Since 1975, MIT's Office of Engineering Outreach programs have provided enriching science and engineering experiences to over 3,000 middle and high school students free of charge. 60 to 70 percent of students come from low socio-economic backgrounds. 70 to 80 percent of students are underrepresented minorities.
Mathematics & Science for Minority Students (MS)² →
The (MS)² program was founded in 1977 to address the compelling need to cultivate the mathematical and scientific abilities of economically disadvantaged African American, Hispanic/Latino, and Native American high school students. This competitive and rigorous program is free of charge for all students selected.