WOW! Program

WOW! Labs

A place to keep wondering, making and discovering what happens next.

Four boys sitting and kneeling on a library floor between the shelves, building with LEGO spread across a rug, open cardboard boxes and loose bricks all around them.
A moment from an earlier WOW! Experience. WOW! Camp, 2024.

Every day can be a new door.

WOW! Labs is a recurring place where children enter WOW! Experiences, make things, test them, and work alongside other people. It meets again and again, and what happens inside it changes.

  • Come for one afternoon. Each session is meant to be worth entering by itself.
  • Or keep coming back. Familiar people, a different challenge.
  • Some things take longer. A challenge that deserves more time can carry across several sessions.
  • Nothing is fixed in advance. There is no set curriculum. What children respond to shapes what comes next.

Built around people, not a time slot.

A Lab can happen after school. That is when it meets, not what it is.

What Labs is meant to grow is community and connection: children who get to know one another by making things together, Guides who get to know them, and families who have a place to return to.

WOW! Labs is designed to fit into a family’s life, not to ask a family to rearrange it.

Three children crouched on the ground around a water filter they built from a cut plastic bottle packed with sand and gravel, one holding it steady while it drips into a tub.
A moment from an earlier WOW! Experience. WOW! Camp, 2021.

The first Lab

WOW! Labs at Radiant Orchard

WOW! Labs is new. The first one is coming soon at Radiant Orchard, for grades 2–5. The opening date will be announced.

WOW! Labs at Radiant Orchard

Made to travel.

Labs is a Program, not a building. The first one is at Radiant Orchard. The idea is meant to be hosted in other places where children already gather.

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