Plan a “STEM-ebration” for your child’s next birthday!
The Pinhead Institute offers a variety of STEM-themed birthday party options – from robotics to rocket launches and more – that can be fine-tuned to meet the age and interests of your group. Fees (2-hour minimum) are based upon number of participants. Extra materials costs may apply.
INQUIRE FOR PRICING
To schedule an event please email Jessica at jessica@pinheadinstitute.org.
BIRTHDAY BLAST OFF!
Assemble, customize, and optimize individual rockets putting principles of thrust, propulsion, drag, and chemical combustion into practice when we send them soaring hundreds of feet in the air.
Length: 2-3 hours
Suggested Ages: 5 to 13 years
Additional materials cost: $20/individual
BIRTHDAY BRIDGES
Become an engineer for a day! After exploring successful (and unsuccessful) engineering feats- from the Golden Gate to the Tacoma Narrows – we’ll build our own bridges and put them to the test.
Length: 2-3 hours
Suggested Ages: 6+
Additional materials cost: $5/individual
CRAZY CHEMISTRY
Through interactive demonstrations we’ll explore the how and why behind chemical reactions that cause oozing, fizzing, flaming, and changing colors during this explosive adventure.
Length: 2 hours
Suggested Ages: 5+
Additional materials cost: $25-50 for the group, depending on demonstrations
DARING DISSECTIONS
Brave budding biologists get lessons in anatomy and physiology while they take an internal look at frogs, squids, eyeballs, or another specimen and learn about the wonders of nature.
Length: 2 hours
Suggested Ages: 11+
Additional materials cost: $6 eyes, $10 frogs or squids/individual, plus dissection equipment
ECO EXPEDITIONS
Get outside and explore the world around us to see what new things we can discover. We’ll investigate topics like: prey and predator relationships, fire dynamics, evolutionary adaptions, or botany, and play games to learn about world’s complex webs of interaction.
Length: 2-3 hours
Suggested Ages: 5+
Additional materials cost: none
NINJA POWER
We’ll channel the Ninja’s ability to understand energy as we build smoke bombs, experiment with the best shape and weight for throwing stars, and capture magnetic and electrical forces to build compasses, magnetize everyday objects, create lightening, and more.
Length: 2 hours
Suggested Ages: 5+
Additional materials cost: $25-40 for the group, depending on demonstrations
ROCKIN’ ROBOTS
Customize Pinhead’s Lego® Mindstorms Robots with spinners, levers, hammers, ball launchers, and more, and then program them to autonomously battle during a birthday tournament.
Length: 2-3 hours
Suggested Ages: 5 to 13 years
Additional materials cost: none
RUBBER BAND RALLY
Apply principles of stored potential and kinetic energy to design, construct, and optimize cars for performance in a Pinhead Rubber Band Rally.
Length: 2 hours
Suggested Ages: 5+
Additional materials cost: $25 recycled/$35 new materials for the group