2025 City of STEM - LA MakerFaire ibrick activity Children are natural explorers, eager to build, tinker, and discover. As a parent, homeschool learning coach, and career educator I’ve always looked for ways to keep that spark alive all year long, especially during the summer. In this post I want to share a little bit more about why I believe this and explain why I’m an advocate for ibrick. When my children were young and I was a teacher in the elementary classroom, I wanted access to the best resources, so that we could all explore and learn. I knew this formula for learning intuitively because of the way I was raised and for the innovations my teachers used in the schools I grew up in. I could see that play and exploration as powerful tools for nurturing STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) skills. Recent research and educational practice show that when children engage in weekly, hands-on building activities. They develop critical thinking, creativity, and collabora...