STEAM Kits

Our STEAM Kits come with supplies and experiment guides. Kits are limited to CAPL cardholders and 3 per family at a time. Kits checkout for three weeks and are renewable once if no holds are pending. They are located along the wall between the windows in the Children’s Area.

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Artie Max
Ages 8 and up
Artie Max brings code to life with colorful works of art! Great for beginners and pro-coders alike, Artie Max draws in 6 major coding languages that kids can learn. Get coding within minutes by connecting your WiFi device securely and directly to Artie.

Botley the Coding Robot
Ages 5 and up

Screen-free, Botley teaches the basics of coding through active play. Use the remote control, coding cards, and blocks for building obstacles to detect objects and move around them, follow looping commands, navigate an obstacle course, and follow black lines.

Circuit Block
Ages 6 and up
Build exciting projects with this circuit board. Kids can work on 64 different circuit science experiments, such as building a small fan, a vacuum cleaner, an RGB light, blowing air, and a frisbee.

Codey Rocky
Ages 6 and up
Codey Rocky is a ready-to-play robot toy. It plays music, follows light, mimics facial expressions, and performs other tasks with easy coding, empowering children with the skills to turn their imagination into reality.

Coding & Robotics
Ages 4-8
This screen-free robot toy is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich that teaches coding principles and skills to children. Program "Sammy" by laying down a sequence of physical code cards-- program the robot to move around, activate its output gear, light up its LED, play sounds, and more.

Coding Critters
Ages 4-7
These screen-free coding toys bring STEM concepts to preschool learning. Kids can code along with the critters’ storybook adventures and use the playset to design their own code games.

Huey the Robot
Ages 5 and up
Learn to code screen-free with Huey, a color-sensing robot toy. With a built-in color sensor, Huey navigates around maps that you create using 81 puzzle-shaped tiles.

Intellisaur Smart Robot Dinosaur
Ages 5 and up
Screen-free toy robot dinosaur that kids can program to walk, talk, dance, roar, shake its tail, and move its head.

KAI the Artificial Intelligence Robot
Ages 10 and up
Explore advanced computing technology with KAI (Kosmos Artificial Intelligence). Build and program a six-legged, app-enabled robot that uses machine learning to react to the gestures and sounds that you make. Machine learning is the process by which computers use data to recognize patterns, learn, and make predictions, and it is a key aspect of artificial intelligence.

LEGO Mindstorms Education EV3 Robot
Ages 8 and up
Design, build, and program your robotic creation. The robot kit is available for one-week checkout to CAPL cardholders ages 18+. One renewal is available if no holds are pending.

LEGO Mindstorms Robot Inventor
Ages 10 and up
Build 5 unique, motorized robots and vehicles using the free LEGO Mindstorms Robot Inventor App then bring them to life using the Scratch-based, drag-and-drop coding environment to complete fun activities and challenging missions.

LEGO WeDo 2.0 Robot Kit
Ages 8 and up
LEGO® Education WeDo 2.0 combines LEGO elements with intuitive block-based coding and standards-aligned lesson plans that make STEAM learning fun and accessible. LEGO bricks, sensors, and motors help students of all levels develop a concrete and tangible understanding of abstract concepts.

MECH 5 Robot Kit
Ages 10 and up
The Mech-5 is a mission-based, entry-level STEM coding robot that is designed to inspire kids to learn about mechanical engineering principles and coding basics. Once the robot is assembled, you can code its movements by snapping the coding buttons onto the coding wheel. It can even perform challenging tasks like throwing, lifting, kicking, or drawing.

mTiny Robot
Ages 3 and up
Screen-free, mTiny Robot includes a tap-to-code interaction pen that enables remote control, commands, playing games, and learning to code for toddlers. 

Osmo Coding Kit
Ages 5 and up
Hands-on coding for kids. Children interact with actual pieces and a tablet (included in the Kit), bringing the game pieces’ actions to life. Skills learned include logic, coding fundamentals, the basics of programming, solving coding puzzles, teamwork, listening, critical thinking, observation, creative problem-solving, music creation, and pattern recognition.

Power Kitty
Ages 4 and up
This screen-free robot toy is packed with fun features that allow children to get creative. Power Kitty can be programmed to recreate many movements and will repeat the sequences that you teach it, including dancing and singing.

Skye the Unicorn Coding Critter
Ages 4 and up
Preschoolers can discover the magic of screen-free coding with this toy unicorn. Equipped with a magic wand remote and Skye's coding spellbook, kids can cast 12 coding spells that make Skye dance, light up, follow her ball, and more.

Snap Rover
Ages 8 and up
Build your own Snap Rover using the Snap Circuits parts that easily snap together. Once completed, you will be able to navigate your surroundings with the remote control. Create a line tracking robot, an infrared avoidance robot, or a programmable tracking robot. Complete 40 experiments in all.

Tale-Bot Coding Robot
Ages 3 and up
Screen-free and ready to code right out of the box, press the command buttons to control the robot to walk, draw, sing, dance, speak, and record. This coding toy promotes language development and nurtures creativity and imagination in children and will help them learn coding concepts like commands, sequences, and loops.

Tumbling Hedgehog Robot
Ages 7 and up
Build a robotic hedgehog! After you build it, you can play with it by making different sounds and watching it tumble, roll, spin around, bristle its spines, and scurry around.

Easy Electric Circuits
Ages 8 and up
Explore the science of electricity in a fun, hands-on way by building 20 electric circuits and motorized devices. Conduct experiments to learn about many electrical components and physical science principles firsthand.

The Hair Raiser
Ages 11 and up
Experience 200,000 volts of electrostatic energy with a Van de Graaff generator.

Snap Circuits Bric Structures
Ages 8 and up
Kids can use their imagination to combine Snap Circuits with ordinary building bricks and make endless combinations of construction and circuitry. With Bric-2-snap technology, kids can wire up their brick builds with Snap Circuits lights, sounds, moving parts, and 3-D circuits to invent almost anything and make it go!

Aircraft Engineer
Ages 6 and up
As you follow the story of two young engineers, Ty and Karlie Omega, you can build 10 simple models of the aircraft they discover on their journey. Large, colorful plastic building pieces make it easy for small hands to put the models together.

Building & Blooms
Ages 4 and up
These blossoms and spinning gears were designed to help strengthen STEM skills like problem-solving, critical thinking, and engineering in a hands-on way. They are great for visual and tactile learners.

LEGO Mindstorms Robot Inventor
Ages 10 and up
Build 5 unique, motorized robots and vehicles using the free LEGO Mindstorms Robot Inventor App then bring them to life using the Scratch-based, drag-and-drop coding environment to complete fun activities and challenging missions.

LEGO WeDo 2.0 Robot Kit
Ages 8 and up

LEGO® Education WeDo 2.0 combines LEGO elements with intuitive block-based coding and standards-aligned lesson plans that make STEAM learning fun and accessible. LEGO bricks, sensors, and motors help students of all levels develop a concrete and tangible understanding of abstract concepts.

Marble Run
Ages 8 and up
The marble run kit includes 6 different colors of glow-in-the-dark glass marbles that shine bright as they zig-zag down the marble run, teaching aerodynamics and the physics of motion. The kit also includes a UV light to quickly recharge the marbles.

MECH 5 Robot Kit
Ages 10 and up
The Mech-5 is a mission-based, entry-level STEM coding robot that is designed to inspire kids to learn about mechanical engineering principles and coding basics. Once the robot is assembled, you can code its movements by snapping the coding buttons onto the coding wheel. It can even perform challenging tasks like throwing, lifting, kicking, or drawing.

Picasso Engineering Construction
Ages 3 and up
Be an engineer, architect, or designer! This construction set offers open-ended possibilities to nurture STEM skills, creativity, problem-solving abilities, logical thinking, improve hand-eye coordination, gain a strong sense of geometrical shapes, and concentration.

Picasso Tiles Magnet Building Blocks
Ages 3 and up
While building with these magnetic blocks, children can acquire a strong sense of color, geometrical shapes, numbers, magnetic polarities, and architectural design.

Simple Machines
Ages 8 and up
Learn how simple machines are all around us (the flagpole at school, the wheelbarrow in your backyard, the seesaw at the playground) and how they're used to make complex tasks easier to do. Through 26 model-building exercise, gain hands-on experience with gears and all six classic simple machines: wheels and axles, levers, pulleys, inclined Planes, screws, and wedges.

Snap Circuits Bric Structures
Ages 8 and up
Kids can use their imagination to combine Snap Circuits with ordinary building bricks and make endless combinations of construction and circuitry. With Bric-2-snap technology, kids can wire up their brick builds with Snap Circuits lights, sounds, moving parts, and 3-D circuits to invent almost anything and make it go!

Animation Studio
Ages 8 and up
Create and film your own animated movies! This creative kit comes with a collection of props, scenes, tools, and lots of inspiration to show you how to make your own stop-motion animated movies.

Chess
Ages 6 and up
Play interactive chess with animated story-based themes that uses tactile figurines to drive the gameplay on screen. The kit includes a Fire tablet.

Osmo Creative Starter Kit
Ages 5 and up

Children can learn to draw, problem-solve, and develop fine motor skills with this kit that connects to the included Fire tablet. Osmo sees and reacts to every real-life move. Three games are included: Monster, Newton, and Masterpiece.

Picasso Tiles Magnet Building Blocks
Ages 3 and up
While building with these magnetic blocks, children can acquire a strong sense of color, geometrical shapes, numbers, magnetic polarities, and architectural design.

Plugo Music
Ages 5 and up
Children can learn the 8 basic notes and how to play them while developing hand-eye coordination, memory skills, and cognitive intelligence.

Plugo Wiz Pack
Ages 4 and up
This STEM Kit has three activities in one and includes a tablet for hands-on learning and healthy screen-time with story-based challenges. Use Plugo Count to learn math, Plugo Letters to spell and learn new words, and Plugo Link to solve puzzles with magnetic blocks.

AR Globe
Ages 5 and up

This smart globe combines a world map, LED night light, and AR technology in one 9-inch globe. You can explore the world through this well-printed world globe.

Digital Microscope
Ages 5 and up

Ideal learning tool and practical instrument for kids with a 7’’ 1080P LCD screen and 12MP ultra-precise lens. View of the tiniest details at a magnification range of 10 to 1200 times, perfect for observing coins, stamps, plants, printed circuit boards, and more.

Happy Atoms
Ages 10 and up

Build thousands of molecules from atom models that connect easily using magnets. Experiment on your own by snapping together atoms to form molecules, or follow detailed step-by-step instructions for 150 molecules.

Human Anatomy Model
Ages 6 and up
A detachable teaching model with 15 Parts of the human body. It shows superficial human muscles and includes the following parts: trunk, brain (2 parts), heart, esophagus and aorta, lung (4 parts), skull cap, stomach, diaphragm, liver, pancreas and spleen, and small and large intestines. The kit comes with a detailed anatomy brochure.

Magnet Kit
Ages 7 and up

Introduce kids to the fascinating world of magnetism with a ready-to-use kit that’s jam-packed with magnets, manipulatives, activity cards, and more. Simply follow the illustrated instructions on the cards to sort magnetic and nonmagnetic objects, discover whether magnets work underwater, make magnets float in midair, and more.

Microscope
Ages 8 and up

With extra features such as a rotatable head, fine focus control, and the option to add the mechanical stage, this microscope is great for educational use.

Picasso Tiles Magnet Building Blocks
Ages 3 and up
Be an engineer, architect, or designer! This construction set offers open-ended possibilities to nurture STEM skills, creativity, problem-solving abilities, logical thinking, improve hand-eye coordination, gain a strong sense of geometrical shapes, and concentration.

Rock Gem Mineral Collection
Ages 8 and up
From quartz to amethyst, this set encompasses a diverse range of crystals, captivating kids with their unique colors, textures, and origins.

Solar System Model
Ages 6 and up
Discover how a special type of gear called a planetary gear is used to simulate the mesmerizing motion of the solar system. Learn about the order of the planets, their relative sizes, their rates of revolution around the sun, their appearance, and other planetary facts. This kit includes full-color step-by-step illustrated assembly instructions.

Talking Human Body Model
Ages 5 and up
A body model with 15 organs can be disassembled and assembled. Includes two interactive voice modes: Encyclopedia Mode and Q&A Mode, supplementing play with knowledge as kids take the first steps in learning biology.

Telescope
Ages 6 and up
View the sky with our high-powered telescope, which includes star charts.

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mTiny Robot
Ages 3 and up
Screen-free, mTiny Robot includes a tap-to-code interaction pen that enables remote control, commands, playing games, and learning to code for toddlers. 

Picasso Engineering Construction
Ages 3 and up
Be an engineer, architect, or designer! This construction set offers open-ended possibilities to nurture STEM skills, creativity, problem-solving abilities, logical thinking, improve hand-eye coordination, gain a strong sense of geometrical shapes, and concentration.

Picasso Tiles Magnet Building Blocks
Ages 3 and up
While building with these magnetic blocks, children can acquire a strong sense of color, geometrical shapes, numbers, magnetic polarities, and architectural design.

Robot Dog
Ages 3 and up
You can play the dog with two modes. Remote control with control range 33ft. Gesture control. Through hand gesture, the robot dog can move forward, backward, turn left, turn right easily. With built-in infrared sensor, The robotic dog can auto sense and avoid obstacles before hitting on its way.

Tale-Bot Coding Robot
Ages 3 and up
Screen-free and ready to code right out of the box, press the command buttons to control the robot to walk, draw, sing, dance, speak, and record. This coding toy promotes language development and nurtures creativity and imagination in children and will help them learn coding concepts like commands, sequences, and loops.

Building & Blooms
Ages 4 and up

These blossoms and spinning gears were designed to help strengthen STEM skills like problem-solving, critical thinking, and engineering in a hands-on way. They are great for visual and tactile learners.

Coding & Robotics
Ages 4-8
This screen-free robot toy is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich that teaches coding principles and skills to children. Program "Sammy" by laying down a sequence of physical code cards-- program the robot to move around, activate its output gear, light up its LED, play sounds, and more.

Coding Critters
Ages 4-7
These screen-free coding toys bring STEM concepts to preschool learning. Kids can code along with the critters’ storybook adventures and use the playset to design their own code games.

Power Kitty
Ages 4 and up
This screen-free robot toy is packed with fun features that allow children to get creative. Power Kitty can be programmed to recreate many movements and will repeat the sequences that you teach it, including dancing and singing.

Plugo Wiz Pack
Ages 4 and up
This STEM Kit has three activities in one and includes a tablet for hands-on learning and healthy screen-time with story-based challenges. Use Plugo Count to learn math, Plugo Letters to spell and learn new words, and Plugo Link to solve puzzles with magnetic blocks.

Skye the Unicorn Coding Critter
Ages 4 and up
Preschoolers can discover the magic of screen-free coding with this toy unicorn. Equipped with a magic wand remote and Skye's coding spellbook, kids can cast 12 coding spells that make Skye dance, light up, follow her ball, and more.

AR Globe
Ages 5 and up

This smart globe combines world map, LED night light and AR technology in one 9-inch globe. You can explore the world through this well-printed world globe.

Botley the Coding Robot
Ages 5 and up

Screen-free, Botley teaches the basics of coding through active play. Use the remote control, coding cards, and blocks for building obstacles to detect objects and move around them, follow looping commands, navigate an obstacle course, and follow black lines.

Digital Microscope
Ages 5 and up

Large Display Great Details - 7’’ 1080P LCD screen together with 12MP ultra-precise lens eliminate eye and neck strain and offer great view of the tiniest details at a magnification range of 10 to 1200 times, perfect for observing coin, stamps, plants, checking printed circuit board and more. Ideal learning tool and practical instrument for kids and adults.

Huey the Robot
Ages 5 and up
Learn to code screen-free with Huey, a color-sensing robot toy. With a built-in color sensor, Huey navigates around maps that you create using 81 puzzle-shaped tiles.

Intellisaur Smart Robot Dinosaur
Ages 5 and up
Screen-free toy robot dinosaur that kids can program to walk, talk, dance, roar, shake its tail, and move its head.

Osmo Coding Kit
Ages 5 and up
Hands-on coding for kids. Children interact with actual pieces and a tablet (included in the Kit), bringing the game pieces’ actions to life. Skills learned include logic, coding fundamentals, the basics of programming, solving coding puzzles, teamwork, listening, critical thinking, observation, creative problem-solving, music creation, and pattern recognition.

Osmo Creative Starter Kit
Ages 5 and up
Children can learn to draw, problem-solve, and develop fine motor skills with this kit that connects to the included Fire tablet. Osmo sees and reacts to every real-life move. Three games are included: Monster, Newton, and Masterpiece.

Plugo Music
Ages 5 and up
Children can learn the 8 basic notes and how to play them while developing hand-eye coordination, memory skills, and cognitive intelligence.

Talking Human Body Model
Ages 5 and up
A body model with 15 organs can be disassembled and assembled. Includes two interactive voice modes: Encyclopedia Mode and Q&A Mode, supplementing play with knowledge as kids take the first steps in learning biology.

Aircraft Engineer
Ages 6 and up
As you follow the story of two young engineers, Ty and Karlie Omega, you can build 10 simple models of the aircraft they discover on their journey. Large, colorful plastic building pieces make it easy for small hands to put the models together.

Chess
Ages 6 and up
Play interactive chess with animated story-based themes that uses tactile figurines to drive the gameplay on screen. The kit includes a Fire tablet.

Circuit Block
Ages 6 and up
Build exciting projects with this circuit board. Kids can work on 64 different circuit science experiments, such as building a small fan, a vacuum cleaner, an RGB light, blowing air, and a frisbee.

Codey Rocky
Ages 6 and up
Codey Rocky is a ready-to-play robot toy. It plays music, follows light, mimics facial expressions, and performs other tasks with easy coding, empowering children with the skills to turn their imagination into reality.

Human Anatomy Model
Ages 6 and up
A detachable teaching model with 15 Parts of the human body. It shows superficial human muscles and includes the following parts: trunk, brain (2 parts), heart, esophagus and aorta, lung (4 parts), skull cap, stomach, diaphragm, liver, pancreas and spleen, and small and large intestines. The kit comes with a detailed anatomy brochure.

Solar System Model
Ages 6 and up
Discover how a special type of gear called a planetary gear is used to simulate the mesmerizing motion of the solar system. Learn about the order of the planets, their relative sizes, their rates of revolution around the sun, their appearance, and other planetary facts. This kit includes full-color step-by-step illustrated assembly instructions.

Telescope
Ages 6 and up
View the sky with our high-powered telescope, which includes star charts.

Magnet Kit
Ages 7 and up

Introduce kids to the fascinating world of magnetism with a ready-to-use kit that’s jam-packed with magnets, manipulatives, activity cards, and more. Simply follow the illustrated instructions on the cards to sort magnetic and nonmagnetic objects, discover whether magnets work underwater, make magnets float in midair, and more.

Tumbling Hedgehog Robot
Ages 7 and up
Build a robotic hedgehog! After you build it, you can play with it by making different sounds and watching it tumble, roll, spin around, bristle its spines, and scurry around.

Animation Studio
Ages 8 and up
Create and film your own animated movies! This creative kit comes with a collection of props, scenes, tools, and lots of inspiration to show you how to make your own stop-motion animated movies.

Artie Max
Ages 8 and up
Artie Max brings code to life with colorful works of art! Great for beginners and pro-coders alike, Artie Max draws in 6 major coding languages that kids can learn. Get coding within minutes by connecting your WiFi device securely and directly to Artie.

Circuit Maze Electric Current Logic Game
Ages 8 and up
Circuit Maze is one of ThinkFun's most popular stem toys for boys and girls, and was a Toy of the Year Award Finalist as well as a PAL Award winner. It's a logic game that teaches the basic principles of circuitry, comes with 60 challenges of increasing difficulty.

Easy Electric Circuits
Ages 8 and up
Explore the science of electricity in a fun, hands-on way by building 20 electric circuits and motorized devices. Conduct experiments to learn about many electrical components and physical science principles firsthand.

Gravity Maze Logic Game
Ages 8 and up
Gravity Maze is one of Think Fun's most popular stem toys for boys and girls, and was a Toy of the Year Award winner in 2017, in the Specialty Category. It's a gravity powered maze game that comes with 60 challenges of increasing difficulty, from beginner to expert.

LEGO Mindstorms Education EV3 Robot
Ages 8 and up
Design, build, and program your robotic creation. The robot kit is available for one-week checkout to CAPL cardholders ages 18+. One renewal is available if no holds are pending.

LEGO Mindstorms Robot Inventor
Ages 8 and up
Build 5 unique, motorized robots and vehicles using the free LEGO Mindstorms Robot Inventor App then bring them to life using the Scratch-based, drag-and-drop coding environment to complete fun activities and challenging missions.

LEGO WeDo 2.0 Robot Kit
Ages 8 and up

LEGO® Education WeDo 2.0 combines LEGO elements with intuitive block-based coding and standards-aligned lesson plans that make STEAM learning fun and accessible. LEGO bricks, sensors, and motors help students of all levels develop a concrete and tangible understanding of abstract concepts.

Marble Run
Ages 8 and up
The marble run kit includes 6 different colors of glow-in-the-dark glass marbles that shine bright as they zig-zag down the marble run, teaching aerodynamics and the physics of motion. The kit also includes a UV light to quickly recharge the marbles.

Microscope
Ages 8 and up
With extra features such as a rotatable head, fine focus control, and the option to add the mechanical stage, this microscope is great for educational use.

Motors & Generators
Ages 8 and up
Learn about how kinetic energy is converted into electrical energy and back again! Conduct 25 experiments, build your own electronic motor, generate electricity with a hand crank motor to power a light.

Rock Gem Mineral Collection
Ages 8 and up
From quartz to amethyst, this set encompasses a diverse range of crystals, captivating kids with their unique colors, textures, and origins.

Simple Machines
Ages 8 and up
Learn how simple machines are all around us (the flagpole at school, the wheelbarrow in your backyard, the seesaw at the playground) and how they're used to make complex tasks easier to do. Through 26 model-building exercise, gain hands-on experience with gears and all six classic simple machines: wheels and axles, levers, pulleys, inclined Planes, screws, and wedges.

Snap Circuits Bric Structures
Ages 8 and up
Kids can use their imagination to combine Snap Circuits with ordinary building bricks and make endless combinations of construction and circuitry. With Bric-2-snap technology, kids can wire up their brick builds with Snap Circuits lights, sounds, moving parts, and 3-D circuits to invent almost anything and make it go!

Snap Rover
Ages 8 and up
Build your own Snap Rover using the Snap Circuits parts that easily snap together. Once completed, you will be able to navigate your surroundings with the remote control. Create a line tracking robot, an infrared avoidance robot, or a programmable tracking robot. Complete 40 experiments in all.

 

The Hair Raiser
Ages 11 and up
Experience 200,000 volts of electrostatic energy with a Van de Graaff generator.

Happy Atoms
Ages 10 and up

Build thousands of molecules from atom models that connect easily using magnets. Experiment on your own by snapping together atoms to form molecules, or follow detailed step-by-step instructions for 150 molecules.

KAI the Artificial Intelligence Robot
Ages 10 and up
Explore advanced computing technology with KAI (Kosmos Artificial Intelligence). Build and program a six-legged, app-enabled robot that uses machine learning to react to the gestures and sounds that you make. Machine learning is the process by which computers use data to recognize patterns, learn, and make predictions, and it is a key aspect of artificial intelligence.

LEGO Mindstorms Robot Inventor
Ages 10 and up
Build 5 unique, motorized robots and vehicles using the free LEGO Mindstorms Robot Inventor App then bring them to life using the Scratch-based, drag-and-drop coding environment to complete fun activities and challenging missions.

MECH 5 Robot Kit
Ages 10 and up
The Mech-5 is a mission-based, entry-level STEM coding robot that is designed to inspire kids to learn about mechanical engineering principles and coding basics. Once the robot is assembled, you can code its movements by snapping the coding buttons onto the coding wheel. It can even perform challenging tasks like throwing, lifting, kicking, or drawing.