Chronological by design.
Ideas make more sense when discoveries have causes, consequences and characters.
Explore · Excite · Experience
Science you can touch.
Real kids. Real tools. Real experiments. Recreation NOW turns science, history and engineering into something children can actually enter, build, test, break, question and understand.
That worked.
Make the whole thing
Take it outside
The Sunday schedule
Easy to find. Hard to mistake.
Every active Sunday has two Science Club classes. The dates below are the full Fall–Winter 2026–27 schedule.
Fall + Winter 2026–27 Every active Sunday · two classes
September
6132027
no class 6 + 13October
4111825
no class 4November
18152229
December
6132027
no class 27January
310172431
February
7142128
March
7142128
no class 28April
4111825
May
29162330
June
6132027
Not school. Not a boxed STEM kit.
Curiosity first.
The class begins with a story—how people discovered something, what they got wrong, what changed, and why it mattered. Then the kids get their hands on the idea.
We teach the story. Then we make it real.
A physical payoff every class.
Build it, test it, restore it, wire it, measure it, observe it or take it apart.
We keep the interesting parts.
Failures, strange detours, wrong theories and real historical stakes are often what kids remember.
Small groups. Big questions.
Enough structure to move forward; enough room to follow a good rabbit hole.
What we've done
Every semester becomes its own world.
The pictures tell the story better than a brochure ever could. These are actual Recreation NOW students doing the work.
Spring–Summer · Paleontology
Restore actual prehistoric material.
Students learned preparation and observation techniques using real tools—carefully removing matrix, examining specimens and treating the work like a real lab instead of a classroom craft.
Electricity & Engineering
Wire it. Test it. Tear it apart.
Students built circuits, traced wiring, learned how components interact, and then moved from simple systems into actual machines and mechanisms.
Fall–Winter · Filmmaking
Make the whole thing.
Students wrote, designed props, recorded sound, acted, operated production gear and learned how a film gets built from an idea into a finished piece.
Fall 2026 · Current semester
Chemistry.
From fire, pigments and metallurgy to alchemy, gases, atoms, the periodic table and modern materials—taught in the order human beings actually figured it out.
I
THE OLD WORLD
Fire, pigments, metals & alchemy
Humans manipulate matter long before anyone can explain why it works.
II
THE BREAKTHROUGH
Gases, measurement & the death of phlogiston
Experiment becomes quantitative. Old explanations finally start losing.
III
THE INVISIBLE WORLD
Atoms, elements & the periodic table
Scientists infer a world they cannot yet see and organize matter into a system.
IV
THE MODERN LAB
Reactions, materials & chemistry everywhere
Acids, bases, bonding, corrosion, polymers, energy and the materials around us.
A place where different minds can stay engaged.All brain types welcome
Different minds belong here.
Recreation NOW is built for curious kids who want to move, make, ask, investigate, focus hard, change direction and come back with a better question.
Small groupsMore attention and more room for questions.
Movement + makingLearning does not require sitting still.
Serious contentWe don't underestimate what kids can handle.
Useful mistakesFailure is part of figuring out how things work.
The room matters
Built for immersion.
The projector, lighting, sound, artifacts, tools and previous builds make the room feel less like a classroom and more like a working lab that changes with the subject.
Come see it for yourself
Try the club before you commit.
Visit the room, meet the teachers, and let your child experience a Recreation NOW class.
Recreation NOW · The Science Club
Location82-52 Abington Rd · Kew Gardens, NY
Class daySunday · 10:00–12:00 & 12:15–2:15
Phone(347) 882-9837
EmailMs.KellyLNoll@gmail.com