Tulsa, OK USA — The Tulsa Air and Space Museum and Planetarium’s classes give elementary students a chance to exercise their engineering and science muscles after school.
For the next eight weeks, students will be tinkering and building in the Exploring Engineering program on Mondays while others will explore the science of air pressure in the Magic of Science program on Tuesdays.
The after-school programs, which run from 4 to 5:30 p.m., are geared for second- through fifth-grade students.
Both classes started this week with about half a dozen children in each day’s program.
The classes started in the fall of 2011 at the request of parents, said Judy Moody, director of academic development.
“Parents asked if there were any science-based after-school programs because their kids weren’t into sports,” Moody said.