This website uses cookies to store information on your computer. Some of these cookies are used for visitor analysis, others are essential to making our site function properly and improve the user experience. By using this site, you consent to the placement of these cookies. Click Accept to consent and dismiss this message or Deny to leave this website. Read our Privacy Statement for more.
STEM Saturdays Fall 2025

 

Learn & Play at Owls Head Transportation Museum!

Your child will love to take part in Owls Head Transportation Museum's STEM Saturdays. From hands-on learning experiences focusing on the science to discovering the history of how people and things move through the world, our programs use over 150 years of transportation history to help students develop critical thinking skills and to make real-world connections from the past to the present and future. 

Open to all ages: Kindergarten - 8th grade & families

Model T meets Robot
September 13th, 2025

10am - 4pm 


Travel back in time with a Sphero robot to combine its present technology with a classic Model T! What would a Model T look like with futuristic engineering? Head over to OHTM to kick off the STEM Saturday season, and craft a 2D Model T to drive with a Sphero robot!

 

Be A Marshmallow Engineer 
September 27th, 2025
10am - 4pm 

When life gives you marshmallows… build a tower! Get ready to engineer 3D structures using only marshmallows and toothpicks. How tall can you build a 3D tower (without eating your materials) ? What other shapes and buildings can you make? The sky’s the limit in this engineering STEM Saturday challenge!


Spooky Science October 11, 2025

10am - 4pm 

 

Get in the spirit of Halloween this STEM Saturday with Spooky Science! Create some creepy slime with glitter glue, baking soda, and googly eyes; watch spiders and eerie colors erupt from jack-o-lantern volcanos using baking soda and vinegar! 


Design a Planet

November 8th, 2025

10am - 4pm 

 

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be an astronaut in outer space? Bring your interstellar imagination to this STEM Saturday - design your own planet to explore, as well as the rocket you will launch to get there! What does your planet look like? Who lives there? What will you name it? The cosmic possibilities are endless! 


Turkey Run

November 22nd, 2025

10am - 4pm 

 

OHTM’s turkeys have gotten loose, and they’re on the run! Join us this Thanksgiving season by building lego racecars for the turkeys to win races, and navigate lego mazes to return the turkeys back to safety. Lastly, craft your own turkeys and send them on the run with Sphero robots! 


Gift Makers

December 13th, 2025

10am - 4pm 

 

It’s crafts galore this STEM Saturday! Bring your creativity and holiday spirit to OHTM, and make an assortment of fun wintery crafts that are sure to bring joy to all. 


No STEM Saturday on October 25th or December 27th 


Free with admission or membership



 

Vistor Testimonials