Afterschool Labs

Join Us . . .

  • @ A School Near You

    Programs conveniently held
    right in your child’s school!

  • @ Our Campus

    Regularly Scheduled Programs for Your Pre-K to 8th Graders
    Just Down the Road from You!

  • @ Have Your Own Lab!

    Live, instructor-led lab programs that fit your child’s interest with your schedule, your location. Great for schools, libraries, friendship groups, clubs & Scouts

This Term, Your Kids Can…

. . . Build Robots, Code Games, Develop Apps & Websites and Create Cool 21st Century Gadgets. You can find information about our after-school programs for children of all skill levels—beginners to advanced—below. If you have any questions, or need help registering, please contact us at info@littleivyacademy.com, or by phone at 201-444-8400.

Current Offerings @ Our Ridgewood Campus

Registration NOW OPEN for Fall 2025 After-school Labs

This term, we will be offering the following programs here @ our Ridgewood Campus! Program information including ages, prices and descriptions can be found below.If you register additional siblings, a 10% discount will be applied for each additional brother and/or sister when we process your credit card.

If you have any questions, or need help registering, please contact us at info@littleivyacademy.com, or by phone at 201-444-8400.

RobotMakers: Let it Spin!

Let your child get geared up for hands-on fun! Utilizing age-appropriate LEGO robotics kits, participants will get motors purring, set wheels and gears spinning, and practice their STEAM skills as they discover the basics of programming and engineering to bring each
project to life. Each lab will give children the chance to build a new robot, including a racecar, a mechanical spinning top, and even a space-age rover!

  • Dates: Tuesday, 10/21/25 to 12/2/25
  • Time: 4:30 pm – 5:40 pm
  • Grades: PreK-1st Grade
  • Tuition: $225.00

SuperScience: Science in Motion!

Let your child jump into action as they explore the exciting world of physics, engineering, and electronics! Each week brings new challenges where your young scientist can put their STEAM skills to the test, designing and building projects that light up, launch, and roll into motion. Students and their lab-mates will create their own working flashlight, experiment with force and motion as they construct catapults, and race their own marble rollercoasters. Science in Motion is the perfect place for curious kids to build, think, and explore through creative projects that make science come alive!

  • Dates: Wednesday, 10/22/25 to 12/3/25
  • Time: 4:30 pm – 5:40 pm
  • Grades: Kindergarten-2nd Grade
  • Tuition: $225.00

RobotMakers: Robots, Roll Out!

Roll out the fun and let your child’s imagination run wild! Built using the age-appropriate LEGO education robotics system and companion coding app, these labs introduce children to the world of hands-on STEAM fun. In each lab, participants will practice the fundamentals of robotics and coding as they build and program a golfer bot, a roving robotic rhino,and a whole lot more!

  • Dates: Tuesdays, 10/21/25 to 12/2/2025
  • Time: 4:30 pm – 5:40 pm
  • Grades: 3rd–5th Grade
  • Tuition: $225.00

VideoMakers Stop Animation: Let's Get Moving!

Animate your child’s fun as they uncover the skills needed to bring inanimate objects to life! Your child will be creating their own series of digital stop-animation videos using a range of materials, including themselves, capturing series of still digital pictures and setting them into motion.

  • Dates: Wednesdays, 10/8/25 to 12/10/25 (No Lab 11/26)
  • Time: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
  • Grades: 1st–2nd Grade
  • Tuition: $225.00

DesignMakers: Make it in 3D!

Your child and their classmates can create their own three-dimensional fun! Make it in 3D! puts the power of Tinkercad, a kid-friendly 3D design tool, in your child’s hands as they explore how real-world designers bring their ideas to life. In each lab, students will model their own creations—from simple shapes like spheres to more complex designs like sailboats—all of which are 3D printable on any printer available to them (Not a 3D printing class). Every session is designed to be fun, accessible, and skill-building for students of all ability levels—from beginner to advanced!

  • Dates: Thursdays, 10/23/25 to 12/18/25 (No Lab 11/6, 11/27)
  • Time: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
  • Grades: 3rd-5th Grade
  • Tuition: $225.00

DesignMakers: Make it in 3D!

Your child and their classmates can create their own three-dimensional fun! Make it in 3D! puts the power of Tinkercad, a kid-friendly 3D design tool, in your child’s hands as they explore how real-world designers bring their ideas to life. In each lab, students will model their own creations—from simple shapes like spheres to more complex designs like sailboats—all of which are 3D printable on any printer available to them (Not a 3D printing class). Every session is designed to be fun, accessible, and skill-building for students of all ability levels—from beginner to advanced!

  • Dates: Thursdays, 10/23/25 to 12/18/25 (No Lab 11/6, 11/27)
  • Time: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
  • Grades: 6th-8th Grade
  • Tuition: $225.00

Current Offerings @ A School Near You!

Registration NOW OPEN for Fall 2025 After-school Labs

[Update for This Term: We’re currently in process of scheduling Fall & Winter 2024 afterschool labs at your local schools.  Check below to discover whether registration is now available for labs at your school– More schools will be added and those listed below will be updated!

Please CLICK HERE to join our mailing list (include your school’s name in the message field) and we’ll keep you updated. If you’d prefer not to wait, your child & their friends can join us for afterschool labs @ our nearby Ridgewood campus (see above). . .]

This term, we will be offering the following programs at these schools! Program information including ages, prices and descriptions can be found below. If you register additional siblings, a 10% discount will be applied for each additional brother and/or sister when we process your credit card.
If you have any questions, or need help registering, please contact us at info@littleivyacademy.com, or by phone at 201-444-8400.

Join Us At. . .

East Brook School, Park Ridge, NJ
Hawes School, Ridgewood, NJ
Haworth School, Haworth, NJ
Oradell School, Oradell NJ

DesignMakers: We Can Doodle!

Your 1st-2nd grader will get “drawn” into the fun of creating their own digital art! Utilizing the Sketchbook app, your child and their lab mates will unleash their creativity and make a variety of fun art projects, including drawings of their favorite animals, digital landscapes,
and more! Each lab session is filled with engaging activities, where participants will learn to express their ideas and develop essential digital skills while having a blast creating colorful and imaginative artwork!

  • Dates: Tuesdays, 10/7/25 to 12/2/25 (No Lab 11/4, 11/25)
  • Time: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
  • Grades: 1st Grade-2nd Grade
  • Tuition: $225.00

GameMakers: First Encounters!

Now, your child can move from passive user to active creator of their own interactive, animated stories & video games. They’ll be using the age-appropriate Scratch, Jr. coding language as they explore the essential elements of story & game design.

  • Dates: Wednesdays, 10/8/25 to 11/19/25
  • Time: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
  • Grades: 1st–2nd Grade
  • Tuition: $225.00

VideoMakers Stop Animation: Let's Get Moving!

Animate your child’s fun as they uncover the skills needed to bring inanimate objects to life! Your child will be creating their own series of digital stop-animation videos using a range of materials, including themselves, capturing series of still digital pictures and setting them into motion.

  • Dates: Thursdays, 10/8/25 to 12/11/25 (No Lab 11/6 & 11/27)
  • Time: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
  • Grades: 1st–2nd Grade
  • Tuition: $225.00

RobotMakers: Let it Spin!

Let your child get geared up for hands-on fun! Utilizing age-appropriate LEGO robotics kits, participants will get motors purring, set wheels and gears spinning, and practice their STEAM skills as they discover the basics of programming and engineering to bring each
project to life. Each lab will give children the chance to build a new robot, including a racecar, a mechanical spinning top, and even a space-age rover!

  • Dates: Friday, 10/10/25 to 12/19/25 ( No Lab 10/31, 11/7, 11/28)
  • Time: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
  • Grades: 1st-2nd Grade
  • Tuition: $225.00

DesignMakers: Makin' Marvelous Comics!

Your child will marvel at how they can fire up their imagination as they discover how to create their very own virtual comics! They’ll unleash the power of the popular Krita graphic-design software to develop new ways to power-up their digital story-telling skills. Each lab session presents new opportunities for students of all ability levels to craft their own unique characters, design worlds, and create their own digital art comic strips!

  • Dates: Tuesdays, 10/7/25 to 12/3/25 (No Lab 11/4)
  • Time: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
  • Grades: 3rd-4th Grade
  • Tuition: $225.00

GameMakers: Classic Adventure!

Your child will be engaged in designing & coding a range of basic adventure-style video games, including inventing their own customized characters, new worlds of mazes and awesome challenges for their avatars.

  • Dates: Wednesday, 10/8/25 to 11/19/25
  • Time: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
  • Grades: 3rd–4th Grade
  • Tuition: $225.00

VideoMakers Stop Animation: Let's Get Moving!

Animate your child’s fun as they uncover the skills needed to bring inanimate objects to life! Your child will be creating their own series of digital stop-animation videos using a range of materials, including themselves, capturing series of still digital pictures and setting them into motion.

  • Dates: Thursdays, 10/8/25 to 12/11/25 (No Lab 11/6 & 11/27)
  • Time: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
  • Grades: 3rd–4th Grade
  • Tuition: $225.00

RobotMakers: Robots Engage & Interact

Now your child can deploy LEGO Spike mobile robotic technology to create robots that use a range of sensors (touch, hear, see, etc.) to engage & interact with environmental challenges and each other! Paired with an age-appropriate programming language your child can develop their critical thinking and STEAM skills as they build & code these engaging mobile bots.

  • Dates: Fridays, 10/10/25 to 12/19/25 (no lab 10/31, 11/7, 11/28)
  • Time: 3:30 pm – 4:40 pm
  • Grades: 3rd–4th Grade
  • Tuition: $225.00

DesignMakers: Makin' Marvelous Comics!

Your child will marvel at how they can fire up their imagination as they discover how to create their very own virtual comics! They’ll unleash the power of the popular Krita graphic-design software to develop new ways to power-up their digital story-telling skills. Each lab session presents new opportunities for students of all ability levels to craft their own unique characters, design worlds, and create their own digital art comic strips!

  • Dates: Tuesdays, 10/7/25 to 12/3/25 (No Lab 11/4)
  • Time: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
  • Grades: 5th-6th Grade
  • Tuition: $225.00

GameMakers: Classic Adventure!

Your child will be engaged in designing & coding a range of basic adventure-style video games, including inventing their own customized characters, new worlds of mazes and awesome challenges for their avatars.

  • Dates: Wednesday, 10/8/25 to 11/19/25
  • Time: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
  • Grades: 5th–6th Grade
  • Tuition: $225.00

VideoMakers Stop Animation: Let's Get Moving!

Animate your child’s fun as they uncover the skills needed to bring inanimate objects to life! Your child will be creating their own series of digital stop-animation videos using a range of materials, including themselves, capturing series of still digital pictures and setting them into motion.

  • Dates: Thursdays, 10/8/25 to 12/11/25 (No Lab 11/6 & 11/27)
  • Time: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
  • Grades: 5th–6th Grade
  • Tuition: $225.00

RobotMakers: Robots Engage & Interact

Now your child can deploy LEGO Spike mobile robotic technology to create robots that use a range of sensors (touch, hear, see, etc.) to engage & interact with environmental challenges and each other! Paired with an age-appropriate programming language your child can develop their critical thinking and STEAM skills as they build & code these engaging mobile bots.

  • Dates: Fridays, 10/10/25 to 12/19/25 (no lab 10/31, 11/7, 11/28)
  • Time: 3:30 pm – 4:40 pm
  • Grades: 5th–6th Grade
  • Tuition: $225.00
Roberge Elementary, Rivervale, NJ
Travell School, Ridgewood, NJ
Wandell School, Saddle River, NJ
West Ridge School, Park Ridge, NJ
Woodglen Elementary, New City, NY
Woodside Elementary, Rivervale, NJ

Want Us at Your School?

Contact Us at solutions@littleivyacademy.com or CLICK HERE to use our Have Your Own Lab form.