What’s Happening
What’s Happening
clubs-youtube
YouTube Creator Club in Wellesley The channel is the excuse. The skills are real. Ages 7–14 · one hour a week · ten-week terms · $395 per term Boston Parents Family Favorite 2020–2026Macaroni Kids Favorite 2026FIRST LEGO League & VEX Judges AwardState finalists, FLL & VEXSTEM.org accreditedCSTA & NGSS aligned Fall 2026 Term · iCode of WellesleyStarts Sep 28 YouTube Creator — enroll now DatesSep 28, 2026 – Dec 7, 2026 Day & timeAfternoons, Mon–Fri Sessions10 sessions, one hour each Ages7–14 Location73 Central Street, Wellesley $395 per ten-week term · second club $325 Enroll in the Fall 2026 Term Book a free evaluation Don’t see a time that works? Tell us when you can come and we will let you know when a slot opens. A video player beside an editing timeline and a microphone. Almost every student who joins this club already watches a great deal of YouTube. Rather few have any idea how much work sits behind the four minutes they enjoyed. This club is where that becomes obvious, usually in week two, when they try to cut their own footage down to something a stranger would sit through. The channel is the excuse. What students are actually…
clubs-web-design
Web Design & Development Club in Wellesley Build a site that is actually live — on a real URL you can send to anyone. Ages 8–17 · one hour a week · ten-week terms · $395 per term Boston Parents Family Favorite 2020–2026Macaroni Kids Favorite 2026FIRST LEGO League & VEX Judges AwardState finalists, FLL & VEXSTEM.org accreditedCSTA & NGSS aligned Fall 2026 Term · iCode of WellesleyStarts Sep 28 Web Design & Development — enroll now DatesSep 28, 2026 – Dec 7, 2026 Day & timeAfternoons, Mon–Fri Sessions10 sessions, one hour each Ages8–17 Location73 Central Street, Wellesley $395 per ten-week term · second club $325 Enroll in the Fall 2026 Term Book a free evaluation Don’t see a time that works? Tell us when you can come and we will let you know when a slot opens. A web page laid out in a browser beside the HTML and CSS behind it. There is a particular moment in this club that never gets old: a student sends a parent a link, the parent opens it on their own phone, and the thing the student made is simply there, on the internet, working. Nothing else we teach produces quite that reaction.…
clubs-roblox
Roblox Club in Wellesley Player to creator — and Lua is a real programming language. Ages 7–15 · one hour a week · ten-week terms · $395 per term Boston Parents Family Favorite 2020–2026Macaroni Kids Favorite 2026FIRST LEGO League & VEX Judges AwardState finalists, FLL & VEXSTEM.org accreditedCSTA & NGSS aligned Fall 2026 Term · iCode of WellesleyStarts Sep 28 Roblox — enroll now DatesSep 28, 2026 – Dec 7, 2026 Day & timeAfternoons, Mon–Fri Sessions10 sessions, one hour each Ages7–15 Location73 Central Street, Wellesley $395 per ten-week term · second club $325 Enroll in the Fall 2026 Term Book a free evaluation Don’t see a time that works? Tell us when you can come and we will let you know when a slot opens. A Roblox world beside a window of Lua code. Almost every student arrives having played Roblox. Rather few arrive knowing it is built on Lua, a text programming language used well beyond games. This club moves students across that line: from consuming games to building and publishing them. Publishing matters here. A game other people can actually play is a very different standard from a game that works on your own screen, and students feel…
clubs-robotics
Robotics Club in Wellesley Design, build and program machines that have to do a specific job — then find out whether they do. Ages 6–17 · one hour a week · ten-week terms · $395 per term Boston Parents Family Favorite 2020–2026Macaroni Kids Favorite 2026FIRST LEGO League & VEX Judges AwardState finalists, FLL & VEXSTEM.org accreditedCSTA & NGSS aligned Fall 2026 Term · iCode of WellesleyStarts Sep 28 Robotics — enroll now DatesSep 28, 2026 – Dec 7, 2026 Day & timeAfternoons, Mon–Fri Sessions10 sessions, one hour each Ages6–17 Location73 Central Street, Wellesley $395 per ten-week term · second club $325 Enroll in the Fall 2026 Term Book a free evaluation Don’t see a time that works? Tell us when you can come and we will let you know when a slot opens. A VEX-style robot following a wall under sensor control. Our widest club by age, running from six-year-olds snapping LEGO mechanisms together to teenagers writing autonomous routines for VEX V5. The appeal of robotics as a teaching subject is that it is honest. Code that is nearly right produces a robot that nearly works, in front of everybody, and there is no arguing with it. Students learn to…
clubs-scratch
Scratch Club in Wellesley First steps in code — and one of our award-winning tracks. Ages 5–11 · one hour a week · ten-week terms · $395 per term Boston Parents Family Favorite 2020–2026Macaroni Kids Favorite 2026FIRST LEGO League & VEX Judges AwardState finalists, FLL & VEXSTEM.org accreditedCSTA & NGSS aligned Fall 2026 Term · iCode of WellesleyStarts Sep 28 Scratch — enroll now DatesSep 28, 2026 – Dec 7, 2026 Day & timeAfternoons, Mon–Fri Sessions10 sessions, one hour each Ages5–11 Location73 Central Street, Wellesley $395 per ten-week term · second club $325 Enroll in the Fall 2026 Term Book a free evaluation Don’t see a time that works? Tell us when you can come and we will let you know when a slot opens. Colored code blocks snapping together into a Scratch script. Scratch is where most of our youngest students start. Blocks snap together instead of being typed, which means a five-year-old can build something that genuinely works without fighting punctuation at the same time. What they are learning underneath is not simplified: sequence, loops, conditions, events and variables are the same ideas they will meet later in Python, just wearing a friendlier costume. Tracks Students enter at…
clubs-shark-tank
Shark Tank Club in Wellesley Build a startup and pitch it — out loud, to people who ask hard questions. Ages 8–17 · one hour a week · ten-week terms · $395 per term Boston Parents Family Favorite 2020–2026Macaroni Kids Favorite 2026FIRST LEGO League & VEX Judges AwardState finalists, FLL & VEXSTEM.org accreditedCSTA & NGSS aligned Fall 2026 Term · iCode of WellesleyStarts Sep 28 Shark Tank — enroll now DatesSep 28, 2026 – Dec 7, 2026 Day & timeAfternoons, Mon–Fri Sessions10 sessions, one hour each Ages8–17 Location73 Central Street, Wellesley $395 per ten-week term · second club $325 Enroll in the Fall 2026 Term Book a free evaluation Don’t see a time that works? Tell us when you can come and we will let you know when a slot opens. A student pitching on stage to a panel asking hard questions. The least technical club we run and, for some students, the most transformative. Students develop an idea, work out who it is for, build a brand around it, and then stand up and pitch it to a panel. Public speaking is a skill that compounds for decades, and very few children get structured practice at it. This club…
clubs-digital-arts
Digital Arts & 3D Printing Club in Wellesley Design on a screen, then hold the thing in your hand. Ages 6–17 · one hour a week · ten-week terms · $395 per term Boston Parents Family Favorite 2020–2026Macaroni Kids Favorite 2026FIRST LEGO League & VEX Judges AwardState finalists, FLL & VEXSTEM.org accreditedCSTA & NGSS aligned Fall 2026 Term · iCode of WellesleyStarts Sep 28 Digital Arts & 3D Printing — enroll now DatesSep 28, 2026 – Dec 7, 2026 Day & timeAfternoons, Mon–Fri Sessions10 sessions, one hour each Ages6–17 Location73 Central Street, Wellesley $395 per ten-week term · second club $325 Enroll in the Fall 2026 Term Book a free evaluation Don’t see a time that works? Tell us when you can come and we will let you know when a slot opens. A 3D wireframe model beside a printer building it layer by layer. This is the club where the A in STEAM does real work. Students design digitally and then print physically, which introduces a set of constraints no screen ever imposes: overhangs, tolerances, wall thickness, and the fact that gravity exists. The moment a student picks up the first part they designed and finds it does not…
clubs-faq
Club questions, answered straight The ones parents in Wellesley actually ask. Tap any question to open the answer. Does my child need experience to join a club?No. Every club has an Introduction or Foundation track built for complete beginners. Students enter at whatever level matches their experience rather than their age, and we place them after a free evaluation rather than guessing from a form. Isn’t this just playing video games?It is a fair question and worth answering properly. We use the games children already care about as a doorway into real skills. In Minecraft they are building Redstone logic circuits, which is genuinely circuit logic. In Roblox they are writing Lua, a real programming language. Every session pairs a concept with a hands-on build, and students have to explain what they made and why it works. What have your students won awards in?Scratch and Python programming, and robotics competitions including FIRST LEGO League and VEX — Judges Award wins and state finals. We have also been a Boston Parents Family Favorite every year from 2020 to 2026. Can my child move between clubs?Yes, and many do. A Minecraft builder often moves into Roblox. Scratch graduates step up into Python.…
clubs-minecraft
Minecraft Club in Wellesley Build and code worlds — and discover you have been doing logic all along. Ages 6–13 · one hour a week · ten-week terms · $395 per term Boston Parents Family Favorite 2020–2026Macaroni Kids Favorite 2026FIRST LEGO League & VEX Judges AwardState finalists, FLL & VEXSTEM.org accreditedCSTA & NGSS aligned Fall 2026 Term · iCode of WellesleyStarts Sep 28 Minecraft — enroll now DatesSep 28, 2026 – Dec 7, 2026 Day & timeAfternoons, Mon–Fri Sessions10 sessions, one hour each Ages6–13 Location73 Central Street, Wellesley $395 per ten-week term · second club $325 Enroll in the Fall 2026 Term Book a free evaluation Don’t see a time that works? Tell us when you can come and we will let you know when a slot opens. A blocky Minecraft build wired into a Redstone logic circuit. Minecraft is the club parents are most skeptical about, and the one that most reliably changes their mind. Redstone is a genuine logic system: gates, delays, latches and clocks. A student who builds a working automatic door has built a circuit, whether or not anyone used that word. Beyond Redstone, students work on collaborative builds with constraints, which turns out to be…
clubs-progression
One map, every path forward Each club runs from foundation to mastery. Students can climb a single column or move across them — and several paths lead all the way to competition and real programming. Students enter at whatever level matches their experience, not their age. The ages below are a guide to where most students sit, not a rule. Foundation to Building to Mastery — students move up a column or across into a new one. Foundation — first steps, mostly ages 5 to 10 Scratch — Introduction. Block coding. Minecraft — Creative and Survival. Robotics — LEGO builds and first mechanisms. Roblox — World Building, obstacle courses. Digital Arts & 3D Printing — Introduction. Design basics. Shark Tank — Introduction. Idea to pitch. YouTube Creator — Introduction. Scripting and filming. Building — real skills, mostly ages 9 to 14 Scratch — Intermediate. Game logic. Minecraft — Redstone and Challenges. Robotics — VEX IQ and programming. Roblox — Lua programming and scripting. Digital Arts & 3D Printing — Intermediate. 3D modeling. Shark Tank — Intermediate. Branding. YouTube Creator — Intermediate. Editing and thumbnails. Python Programming — Introduction. Syntax and logic. Web Design & Development — Introduction. HTML and CSS.…
clubs-python
Python Programming Club in Wellesley Real text-based code — and one of our award-winning tracks. Ages 8–17 · one hour a week · ten-week terms · $395 per term Boston Parents Family Favorite 2020–2026Macaroni Kids Favorite 2026FIRST LEGO League & VEX Judges AwardState finalists, FLL & VEXSTEM.org accreditedCSTA & NGSS aligned Fall 2026 Term · iCode of WellesleyStarts Sep 28 Python Programming — enroll now DatesSep 28, 2026 – Dec 7, 2026 Day & timeAfternoons, Mon–Fri Sessions10 sessions, one hour each Ages8–17 Location73 Central Street, Wellesley $395 per ten-week term · second club $325 Enroll in the Fall 2026 Term Book a free evaluation Don’t see a time that works? Tell us when you can come and we will let you know when a slot opens. A terminal running Python code beside a stylised snake. Python is the bridge from blocks to the kind of programming people are actually paid to do. It is also, deliberately, the least forgiving club we run: a misplaced colon stops everything, and learning to read an error message calmly is part of the curriculum. Students build things that do something — tools, simulations, data projects, games — rather than working through exercises. Advanced students…
clubs
After-school clubs in Wellesley Nine clubs, ages 5 to 17. Ten weeks, one hour a week, one finished thing to show for it. Boston Parents Family Favorite 2020–2026Macaroni Kids Favorite 2026FIRST LEGO League & VEX Judges AwardState finalists, FLL & VEXSTEM.org accreditedCSTA & NGSS aligned Every club runs from foundation to mastery, so there is always a next step. Fall 2026 Term · iCode of WellesleyStarts Sep 28 Enrollment is open DatesSep 28, 2026 – Dec 7, 2026 Format10 sessions, one hour a week Ages5–17, by club Location73 Central Street, Wellesley $395 per club, per term · second club $325 See the nine clubs Book a free evaluation How clubs work Every club runs the same shape. Students get a brief with requirements and no steps, work out the how themselves, and finish the term with something they built rather than a folder of exercises. Students enter at the level that matches their experience, not their age. We place them after a free evaluation rather than guessing from a form. The nine clubs Scratch — ages 5–11 First steps in code — and one of our award-winning tracks. Enroll in the Fall 2026 Term →Minecraft — ages 6–13 Build and…