Programs & challenges
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ESA Back to School 2026–27 STEM Projects
The European Space Agency’s 2026–27 Teacher’s Corner collection brings together Climate Detectives, Mission X, Astro Pi, CanSat, and Moon Camp, connecting school students with hands-on space science, coding, Earth observation, engineering, and design.
Astro Pi Mission Zero
ESA and the Raspberry Pi Foundation invite young people to write beginner Python programs that run on Astro Pi computers aboard the International Space Station.
NASA Kids' Club
NASA games, astronaut stories, mission pictures, and STEM activities for younger learners.
NASA
Official NASA videos about space exploration, science, missions, Earth, astronomy, astronauts, and the future of discovery.
Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem Make and Learn
Make and Learn is a Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem hybrid education initiative combining curriculum-linked teaching units, interactive mini exhibits, maker-inspired after-school learning, and at-home science and technology challenges.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Official NASA JPL videos about robotic exploration, Mars rovers, planetary missions, space technology, and skywatching.
National Children’s Museum Programs
National Children’s Museum in Washington, DC offers current early-learner, STEAM storytime, tinkering, fine-art, and family programmes that pair hands-on play with science, technology, engineering, art, and making.
Code for Life
Free coding courses and creative programming activities for children, with guided learning paths for school and home.
The Tech Interactive
A family-friendly science and technology center with hands-on exhibits, experimental labs, design challenges, and youth engineering programs.
Read Along by Google
A free reading companion that listens as children read aloud and provides pronunciation support, stories, badges, and practice in multiple languages.
Technisches Museum Vienna Kids and Families
Family activities and playful technology learning for young children, school-age visitors, and grown-ups in Vienna.
Science Museum Oklahoma
A large hands-on science museum with interactive exhibits, science shows, a planetarium, creative challenges, and family learning experiences.
Museo Scienza Playlab
A museum learning space for children ages 3–6 where art, science, technology, storytelling, tinkering, light, sound, nature, and imaginative play meet in five interactive rooms.
Smithsonian Youth Programs
The Smithsonian Youth Programs catalogue connects K–12 learners and teens with science, nature, technology, art, design, history, culture, camps, internships, zoo programmes, and museum-based learning.
Code.org Computer Science for Ages 5–11
Code.org’s elementary student hub provides free AI literacy and computer science activities for ages 5–11, including Hour of AI, pre-reader courses, programming challenges, Music Lab, Sprite Lab, and curriculum links.
Franklin Institute Science and Education
Science activities, engineering ideas, youth programs, videos, and classroom resources from The Franklin Institute.
NASA eClips YouTube
NASA eClips videos connect students and educators with NASA missions, scientists, engineers, and classroom-ready STEM ideas.
micro:bit Teach Featured
The official micro:bit Teach Featured hub gathers age-banded units of work, coding projects, AI-literacy lessons, design challenges, classroom resources, events, and free professional-development courses for young learners and educators.
Montréal Science Centre
An interactive science museum with hands-on exhibitions, creative technology challenges, family events, and bilingual visitor information.
Museum of Science Boston Youth Programs
The Museum of Science Boston Youth Programs page gathers high-school STEM opportunities including science series, computer-science events, a 2026 innovation hackathon, biotechnology and renewable-energy workshops, MEDscience, and internships.
Oslo Science Centre
Interactive science and technology exhibits, creative workshops, and family learning at Norway's Museum of Science and Technology.
Boston Children's Museum STEAM Lab
Hands-on science, technology, engineering, art, and math activities that encourage creativity, curiosity, and critical thinking.
SciShow Space
SciShow’s dedicated space channel explains planets, stars, missions, astronomy discoveries, and the science of the universe.
Microsoft MakeCode for micro:bit
Microsoft MakeCode for micro:bit is a browser coding environment with block-based and text programming, tutorials, games, projects, search, import, and optional account features for young makers.
Intrepid Museum Education Resources
Intrepid Museum education resources combine free learning-library content, historic photographs, oral histories, videos, field trips, virtual tours, and programs about history, science, technology, and engineering.
Coding with Kids
Coding with Kids provides live online and in-person classes, camps, school programmes, robotics, engineering, game design, Python, Minecraft modding, and age-progressive coding and AI projects for children and teens.
National Museum of the US Air Force Education
Aviation and space learning with scavenger hunts, coloring pages, word searches, STEM programs, and museum activities.
Science Friday Try This
A free archive of hands-on science and engineering challenges that help kids investigate real-world questions through experiments and making.
NASA JPL Education Overview
An official overview of NASA JPL’s education mission, audiences, K-12 content, STEM resources, and family-facing space learning.
Computerphile
Interviews and demonstrations about computers, programming, cybersecurity, algorithms, hardware, and computer science.
Ontario Science Centre
A government science-centre program with hands-on science play, kids’ programs, maker activities, pop-up events, and do-it-yourself science resources during its transition to a new home.
Kids in Space 2026
Makers Empire’s 2026 Kids in Space programme showcases primary-school design-thinking and STEM projects addressing astronaut and space-exploration challenges, supported by Australian space and education partners.
Mark Rober
Engineering builds, science demonstrations, problem-solving, and curiosity-driven experiments from former NASA engineer Mark Rober.
ISRO Students
The Indian Space Research Organisation student hub connects children and teens to space videos, quizzes, a virtual museum, STEM resources, and school programmes.
careers.games
careers.games is a free browser simulation where children try technology, medicine, law, finance, food, media, education, and construction careers through playful choices and challenges.
FBI Students
Student-focused resources about online safety, civic awareness, careers, history, and youth programs from the FBI.
TypingClub
A structured touch-typing curriculum with browser lessons, practice, progress tracking, and school tools for learners.
The Engineering Family
Family-friendly engineering and science videos with experiments, builds, challenges, and explanations for curious children.
SparkDen
A nonprofit teen coding program providing free cloud hosting, mentorship, and a monitored community for young people shipping their own projects.
What If Kids
What If Kids is a curriculum-based science program for grades 1–4, using animated episodes, real-world science questions, and simple activities children can try at home.
Syracuse University Kids + Coding Resources
Syracuse University Engineering@Syracuse presents a collection of coding tools and educator tips for introducing children to programming, with linked explainers on coding terms, teaching approaches, languages, and learning tools.
AnyOneCanRead
AnyOneCanRead is a free online reading program combining phonics, sound-outs, read-alongs, vocabulary, broad subject content, and educator guidance for kindergarten through upper elementary learners.