After-School Science Clubs 

with

Junior Einsteins Science Club®

Explore • Engage • Empower

 

Lab coats on, goggles on, and a whole school buzzing with curiosity

Picture your child coming home and explaining exactly how a pulley lifts the impossible. Or pulling a fossil they cast themselves out of their school bag. That’s a normal week at a Junior Einsteins Science Club®.

Since 2012, more than 900,000 Junior Einsteins have built rockets, lifted fingerprints at crime scenes, grown crystals and engineered bridges with us. Every session is fully hands-on and screen-free, with 60 minutes of real science in small groups. Nearly every week, the children bring home something they made.

For parents: bring Junior Einsteins to your school

If your child’s school doesn’t run a Junior Einsteins After School Science Club® yet, you can change that. Plenty of our clubs got started because one parent mentioned us to the principal or the parents’ association.

Just pass on our details, or send us the name of the school, and we’ll look after the rest. We make it easy for the school at every step.

For schools: our After School Science Club®

Our weekly After School Science Club® is where most schools first meet us. We have more than two years of weekly sessions and never repeat a topic, so children come back term after term. Every session is delivered by our trained Junior Einsteins instructors. We look after the equipment, the risk assessments and all the organisation, so your staff have nothing extra to do.

We can also come in during the school day

Many schools also invite us in during school hours. We run a series of weekly visits built around a theme that suits your class, your curriculum or your STEM week. You choose the topic and how many weeks. Here are a few of the series schools enjoy most:

🌍 Sustainability & Climate, a 6-week series Climate Quest, Engineering Clean Water, Harness the Sun (Build Your Own Solar Oven), Wild Wind, Smart Cities and Biomimicry.

🌱 Nature & the Earth, a 12-week series Rock Stars, Freaky Fossils, Crusty Old Earth, Vicious Volcanoes, Storm Watch Lab, Blossoming Beans, Bug Hunt, Muddy Worms, Fantastic Frogs, Life in a Drop, Classification of Life and Biodiversity Bonanza.

🌉 Engineering, a 4-week series Engineering Bridges, Catapult Engineering Lab, Tensegrity and Crazy Shapes.

🤖 Robotics a 6-week series RoboCreators, TechInsect & PropelBot Lab, Pneumatic Power, Pulleys, Zesty Zap & Spud Spark and Mission MedTech 2: Engineering the Human Body.

🫀 The Human Body, an 8-week series Doctor Bones, Pumping Heart, Take a Deep Breath, From Plate to Poop, Brain Olympics, Squelchy Eyeballs, Mission MedTech and Mission MedTech 2.

These are just examples. We also have series on space and flight, light and sound, electricity, forensic science, chemistry, archaeology and more. We can build a series around any theme you have in mind, whether it runs for three weeks or for a full term.

How Junior Einsteins fits your primary school

We cover every area of STEM, and we fit alongside what your school already does:

You can book us for one of these, two, or all three. Your school might want a weekly club, a daytime series, a STEM week or a whole-school Science Show. Whichever you choose, the children get the same joyful, hands-on experience.

Every session includes

  • All equipment and materials
  • Full risk assessments and safety guidance
  • Several experiments that build on each other in each 60-minute session
  • Something to take home, which gets the whole family talking about science

Let’s get your ‘Junior Einsteins started’ !

Whether you’re a parent, a teacher or a principal, just get in touch with your local Junior Einsteins team. We’d love to hear from you. We’ll talk you through the options and help you find the best fit for your school, your timetable and your ‘Junior Einsteins’.

DISCOVER MORE

Here’s everything your Junior Einsteins could explore with us.

🚀 Space Science, Rockets, Flight & Forces

Out of This World: Our Solar System. Marbles orbit a stretchy gravity well, the children learn the order of the planets with a memory rhyme and race across a planet rug. Then they make a Galaxy in a Bottle to take home.

Junior Astronaut Training. Space-mission challenges test gravity, balance, rocket science and teamwork, and show how the human body copes beyond Earth.

Bernoulli’s Flying Machines. The children act out lift, thrust, gravity and drag, float a ping-pong ball in a hairdryer’s airstream, then build and race their own gliders.

Rocket Races. Five experiments in jet propulsion: balloon rockets, baking-soda bottle rockets, a team rocket relay, stomp rockets and a Coke-and-Mentos geyser that shoots metres into the air.

Sky-High Scientists: The Science of Kites. The children become the four forces of flight, engineer diamond kites from bin bags and canes, then head outdoors for the Great Launch Challenge.

Float Your Boat. Archimedes’ principle in action. The children make a sinking egg float, compare volume and mass, and see how many coins wide and narrow lids can hold.

Catapult Engineering Lab: Launch Science. The children engineer their own catapults, test launch angles for distance and then compete to topple a brick tower.

Galileo’s Gravity Lab 1. Heavy and light balls dropped together just like Galileo, coins whirling inside balloons, water swung overhead without spilling a drop, and spinning gyroscopes.

Galileo’s Gravity Lab 2: Making a Splash. Straw-and-balloon fountains, tubing siphons, a booby-trapped bottle that sprays from its holes, and a Team Cup Cascade.

Last Marble Running. The children explore friction, drag and momentum, ride skateboards, then race to engineer the slowest marble run.

Vortices: Hurricane in a Bottle & Giant Smoke Rings. Giant smoke rings knock cups off the children’s heads, they fire their own air cannons, and they watch a hurricane spiral between two bottles.

Whirling Wonders: The Science of Spinning. The children make a pen levitate with magnets, crack a magnet puzzle and race spinning tops steered by hidden magnets.

💡 Light, Colour, Sound, Electricity & Invisible Forces

Somewhere Over the Rainbow. The children split white light into a rainbow and discover the colours hiding inside it.

Spectrometer: Seeing Inside Light. They build their own spectrometer and read the secret bands of colour inside light.

Periscopes: Engineering the Invisible View. They engineer periscopes that see around corners using cleverly placed mirrors.

Sonic Science: Vibrations in Action. They see and feel sound as vibrations they can make, bend and amplify.

Thunder Tubes & Crazy Kazoos: Playing with Pitch. They make instruments that roar and buzz, and work out the science of high and low pitch.

Plasma Ball: Light the Lightsabre. Crackling plasma and glowing lightsabres bring electricity to life at their fingertips.

Plasma Ball 2: Neon Magic & Lightning Tricks. The next level of plasma, with neon glows and mini lightning.

Van de Graaff Generator: Sparks Will Fly! Hair stands on end and sparks jump as the children meet real static electricity up close.

Van de Graaff 2: Lightning Lab. The children make their own crackling lightning and learn how charge builds up and leaps across.

Make Your Own Compass. They magnetise, float and line up their own compass and find true north.

Quantum Conundrums. Newton’s third law with balloons, waves in water bowls, and the famous double-slit experiment recreated with Nerf bullets and torchlight.

Zesty Zap & Spud Spark. Fruit and potatoes power real circuits, so electricity comes straight from the kitchen.

🤖 Engineering, Robotics, Structures & Applied STEM

Engineering Bridges. The children design and build bridges, then load them up to see whose holds the most weight.

Pneumatic Power: Moving with Air. They build machines that push, lift and move using nothing but air.

Pulleys: Lifting the World! They build pulley systems and feel how simple machines lift the impossible.

Tensegrity: Building with Tension & Compression. They build gravity-defying structures that seem to float.

RoboCreators. They design, build and set loose their own buzzing, scribbling robots.

TechInsect & PropelBot Lab. They engineer motorised bug-bots and propeller machines, then race them and improve their designs.

Crazy Shapes. They discover why some shapes are secretly the strongest in engineering.

Marvellous Magical Maths. Puzzles, patterns and mind-reading number tricks that make maths feel like magic.

Mother Nature’s Secret Maths Code: Fibonacci. The children hunt for the hidden number pattern that shows up all through nature.

🧪 Materials, Mixtures & Reaction Science

Slimey Slime. The classic. The children mix and stretch their own gooey, glorious slime.

Slime 2: Bigger, Bolder, Slimier. Next-level slimes with surprising twists.

Elephant’s Toothpaste. A giant foaming eruption that bursts out of the flask every time.

Walking Water: Surface Tension. Water climbs and walks across the table through the magic of surface tension.

Sudsy Science: Squishy Soap Microbiology. The children make their own soap and discover the tiny microbes it washes away.

Bubbleology 1: The Science of Bubbles. They make giant bubbles and uncover the science holding them together.

Bubbleology 2: Light, Sound & Strength. More bubble science, exploring how bubbles catch the light and hold their shape.

Bath Fizzers. They mix and mould their own fizzing bath bombs.

Christmas Crystals. They grow sparkling crystals to take home, festive chemistry with a magical finish.

Luminescent Lava Lamps. They build glowing lava lamps and watch density in motion.

Weird Wonderful Water. Water tricks that show how strange this everyday liquid really is.

🌍 Sustainability, Climate & Green Engineering

Climate Quest. Fast-paced missions tackling the planet’s biggest climate challenges.

Engineering Clean Water: Water Filtration. The children build real filters and turn murky water clean.

Harness the Sun: Build Your Own Solar Oven. They build solar ovens that really cook using only the power of the Sun.

Wild Wind. They capture the wind and turn it into power with their own designs.

Storm Watch Lab: Mission Meteorologist. They become weather scientists, forecasting and recreating storms.

Smart Cities. They design the sustainable, high-tech cities of the future.

Biodiversity Bonanza. They explore the web of life and why every species counts.

Biomimicry. They copy nature’s cleverest designs to solve real engineering problems.

Blossoming Beans. They plant, grow and investigate what living things need to thrive.

Life in a Drop: Exploring Pond Habitats. They discover the hidden world of tiny creatures living in a single drop of pond water.

Bug Hunt. They become field scientists, hunting for and studying the mini-beasts all around us.

Sunscreen Science. They test how sunscreen protects skin and learn the science of UV protection.

🫀 Human Body, Health, Sports Science & MedTech

Doctor Bones. The children build and explore the skeleton and find out how our bones hold us up.

Pumping Heart. They work a model heart and feel how blood is pumped around the body.

From Plate to Poop. Food’s squelchy journey through the digestive system, always a favourite!

Brain Olympics: Neuro Sports Science. They race their reflexes and give their brains a sporting workout.

Take a Deep Breath: Human Respiration. They build working models to see how the lungs work.

Mission MedTech: The Science of Saving Lives. As biomedical engineers, they build a working heart-valve model and clear a blocked artery.

Mission MedTech 2: Engineering the Human Body. They explore the bionic future of engineered replacement body parts.

Squelchy Eyeballs & Blacklight. Spooky sensory science exploring the eye, plus glow-in-the-dark surprises.

🔍 Forensic Science, Mystery & Evidence

CSI Junior Investigators. The secrets of forensic science and how real evidence cracks a case.

Forensic Crime Scene. A crime scene appears, and the children gather clues and name the culprit.

DNA. The children extract real, visible DNA and discover the code inside every living thing.

Purple Power pH. Colour-changing indicators reveal hidden acids and bases, with a dramatic detective twist.

🌋 Earth, Fossils, Volcanoes & Natural Forces

Rock Stars. The children become geologists, testing and identifying rocks.

Freaky Fossils. They cast their own fossils to take home and learn how ancient life was preserved.

Crusty Old Earth. They dig into the layers of the planet beneath our feet.

Vicious Volcanoes. They erupt their own volcanoes in a dramatic explosion of Earth science.

🐸 Living World, Animals, Habitats & Survival

Classification of Life. The children sort and group living things and crack the code scientists use to name life.

Fantastic Frogs. They explore the amazing journey from egg to frog.

Muddy Worms. They get hands-on with worms, the tiny heroes of healthy soil.

Blubber Gloves. They plunge their hands into icy water to feel how Arctic animals stay warm.

Dive Deep. They descend into the ocean depths and discover the crushing science of pressure.

Glowing Explorations: Bioluminescence. They meet astonishing creatures that make their own living light.

Extreme Survival Science: Survive the Wild. Survival missions and the science of staying alive in the wild.

🏺 People of the Past, Archaeology & Anthropology

History Hunters: Junior Archaeologists Dig. The children run their own excavation, unearthing and decoding artefacts from the past.

People of the Past: The Anthropology Adventure. They use scientific evidence to piece together how ancient peoples really lived.

🎨 Creative, Art & Illusion Science

Cartoon Capers. The children build zoetropes, praxinoscopes and thaumatropes and discover the optical illusions that trick the brain into seeing movement.

Pigments of Imagination. The colourful chemistry of pigments, dyes and art.

🎉 Seasonal & Celebration Science

Celebration Science: The Science Show. A high-energy whole-school show with a bit of everything we do, and a brilliant taste of Junior Einsteins.

Easter Egg-speriments. Egg-themed sessions full of egg drops and springtime chemistry.

Sciency Snowball. Festive winter science challenges full of frosty fun.

🔥 Energy, Heat & Fire Science

Bright Sparks: The Science of Candles. The surprising science hidden in a simple flickering flame.

The Science of Fire: The Triangle & Beyond. Exactly what fire needs to burn, and how to put it out.

Heat in Motion: Where Heat Makes Things Move. Mesmerising demos where heat becomes movement.

Bring Junior Einsteins to your school

Lab coats on, goggles on, and a whole school buzzing with curiosity. This article introduces our Junior Einsteins After School Science Club® and the weekly science series we run during the school day, built around any theme a school chooses. It also includes our full session library, from rockets, robotics and forensic science to climate, the human body, archaeology and anthropology. If you’re a parent or a school who would love to see this in your classrooms, your local Junior Einsteins team is ready to help you get started.

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