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STEAM Club

2026-2027 Chairs: Jennifer Chen

Open to students in grades K–3. Students explore rotating science themes through hands-on experiments, engineering challenges, creative projects, and problem-solving activities that build curiosity, teamwork, and foundational STEM skills.

The teacher-to-student ratio is approximately 1:10, with two classrooms serving up to 30 students total.

Please contact the chair for a volunteer position.

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GENERAL INFORMATION

STEAM club will rotate through several science themes during the year to keep students engaged.

Planned units include:

Pokémon Research Lab
Superhero Science Academy
Slime Science Lab
K-Pop Demon Hunters Science
Mini Med School
Art & Chemistry of Color

Each unit combines hands-on experiments, engineering challenges, problem-solving activities, and creative projects designed for elementary-aged students.

The curriculum introduces students to a broad range of STEM concepts while emphasizing curiosity, teamwork, creativity, and scientific thinking. It also helps build foundational STEM skills that may support future participation in programs such as Science Olympiad, while remaining age-appropriate and fun for younger students.

Info Night

Info Night TBD at Medina Elementary. Club chairs will present details about each program and answer questions.

Who can attend: Parents and students — all are welcome!

Registration

Registration opens: TBD

Registration Fee: TBD

Eligibility: Only current Medina Elementary students with an active PTA membership are eligible to register.
Steps to Register:

Purchase or renew your PTA membership.
Access the Arts registration form under My Family’s Forms/Paperwork once registration opens.
Complete the form and payment. If your preferred spot is full, join the waitlist.

Financial Assistance:

Select “pay by check” during checkout to prevent registration delays, and then email Ms. Geck at gecke@bsd405.org to begin the assistance process.
One Registration, Full Year: Registration now covers the entire school year — fall, winter, and spring sessions.

Club Meetings

Club meetings begin late September or early October, the exact date will be announced soon.

Tentative meeting dates are listed below, but all dates are dependent on room availability. If we must cancel Arts Club, we will email parents with as much notice as possible.

Month	Days
Sep	TBD
Oct	TBD
Nov	TBD
Dec	TBD
Jan	TBD
Feb	TBD
Mar	TBD
Apr	TBD
May	TBD

Policies

Updated: August 29, 2025

FEES: For a student to participate in any after-school club, there cannot be an outstanding balance on the family's PTA's account. Tuition and all outstanding fees must be paid in full by September 30th, 2025 (or by the next class date if registering after September 30th). If you do not pay all fees by this deadline, your child will be withdrawn from Arts Club and a 5% tuition processing fee will be added to your account.

To remain enrolled in Arts Club, families must timely pay any Medina PTA fees (not just club fees) incurred during the course of the school year. You understand that failure to pay fees on time may result in your student being withdrawn from the club with no refund.

ELIGIBILITY: Our afterschool clubs (including Arts Club) are ONLY for CURRENT-ENROLLED Medina students with ACTIVE Medina PTA membership. Your child must be enrolled with Medina Elementary school at the time they are attending the club and you must have a valid Medina PTA family or individual membership for the 2025-2026 school year. You agree that if your kid is not currently enrolled with Medina Elementary school OR you do not purchase PTA membership by the first class, your child will be withdrawn from all afterschool clubs with no refund.

REFUNDS: If parents withdraw before the first class starts, they will be charged a 5% of tuition. If they cancel before the second class, the fee is 25% of tuition. After the second class, no refunds will be given for any reason.

PROCESSING FEE: Any student registration for an afterschool club that you cancel will incur a 5% processing fee. This includes cancelling a duplicate registration (e.g., when the parents sign up the same child twice for the same club) or cancelling one registration to sign up for a different Medina PTA club on the same day. The 5% fee applies for all transaction types (credit card, cash, or check).

BEHAVIOR:

Intentional violent behavior directed at another individual during the club (including another student, teacher, coach/instructor, parent, or volunteer) and resulting in physical harm is grounds for immediate removal from that club without refund. Medina PTA retains the discretion to remove this student from all other enrolled afterschool clubs/programs and prevent this student from registering for future afterschool programs in the same school year.

Parents and students are expected to behave respectfully to each other and the coaches/instructors:

If the club chair determines that a student’s behavior is disruptive during the program/club, or the student is consistently disrespectful, a warning will be issued to the student and parent. After the warning, a second offense will result in removal of the student from the club with no refund, unless the club chair decides to issue a second warning. The chair may also require the parent to provide full-time adult supervision of the student for the duration of the club. The adult supervisor must be a PTA member and have a BSD background check. A third offense will result in removal of the student from the club program with no refund.

If the club chair determines that a parent’s behavior is disruptive or consistently disrespectful, a warning will be issued to the parent. After the warning, a second offense will result in removal of that parent’s child from afterschool clubs with no refund.

At the discretion of Medina PTA, any withdrawal due to disruptive or disrespectful behavior may also affect the family’s ability to register for future afterschool programs.

PICK-UP: Our parent classroom volunteers are required to stay until the last child is picked up from class. Please respect our volunteers’ time by picking your child up promptly at dismissal time unless your child is staying at Medina Elementary with the Boys & Girls Club. If you wish to permit your child to sign him/herself out from class and walk/bike home, you must complete the Medina PTA Permission Slip for Self-Checkout of Afterschool Clubs found on our website, and return it to our Arts Club Co-Chairs. Repeated late pickups may result in withdrawal from Arts Club with no refund, and you may forfeit the ability to register for future afterschool programs.

ABSENCES: If your child will not be at Arts Club, you must email artsclub@medinapta.org prior to that day’s class start time. You understand that two unexcused absences may result in removal of your student from the club without refund.