NASHUA
About Nashua
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Phone
Address
74 Northeastern blvd, Unit 21, nashua, NH03062.
Office Hours
- Mon-Wed : 5 pm-8 pm
- Thu: Closed
- Fri: 5 pm-8 pm
- Sat: 10 am-8 pm
- Sun: 10 am-6 pm
Announcement:
After School Program: K-8
Once a week learning (in-person) with hands-on Science projects and engineering activities to concretize the concepts. Our Spiral STEM curriculum develops a strong foundation in each science concept and builds on the concepts to get them prepared for higher science classes. Students are given a placement test to determine their level of understanding and comprehension. Based on their performance, students are placed at their appropriate level.
Birthday Party Packages: Science Themed Fun Packages (2 hr package)
Our packages include-
a. 50-60 min STEM activity (Art activity included),
b. 50-60 min birthday cake, pizza time.
Food is not provided by us. Food can be served at our facility and needs to be ordered by the responsible party reserving the birthday party package. Food needs to be ordered from commercial businesses/stores with registered food licenses. We are not responsible for any allergic reactions or health issues that may arise due to consumption of food from outside sources.
BIRTHDAY THEMES
a. Magic Land:
Let the sorting beaker sort our scientists into houses of STEM and each house gets to compete to earn house points. During this hour, the students learn the magic of STEM. They will delve into the land of DNA that has been discovered. They also learn the new way of creating potions (formerly known as chemical reactions). Instead of using a cauldron, they will be using beakers, graduated cylinders, and conical flasks. Sometimes the world can be tough, and by the flick of a wand, a wizard or witch can do a very complicated thing very quickly. But, scientists don’t have wands. Instead, they have STEM tools to make objects fly and get things done easily. The wizarding world may seem good, but our scientist’s MAGIC LAND is way better!
b. Under the SEA STEM
Put your swimsuits on because we are going to dive into the STEM seas. As you explore the depths of the ocean, you discover planktons, and even see them up close (even the unicellular planktons). But, sometimes you need to take a breath (we are mammals after all), and go to the surface of the water. When going to the surface, you may find a boat, and you could understand how and why the boats sink or float. You can even sneak onto the docks and help the engineers build and test their next boat. As you keep swimming, you start going downwards, and find many rocks and shells. You collect them and understand the science of making them. As you keep swimming, you learn that being under the sea is the place to be.Come on you awesome marine biologists, hop on the STEM boat to go under the sea.
c. Dinosaur Land
Many years ago there were more than our 21st century living organisms.There were many animals who went extinct. In DINOSAUR LAND, we bring some of them back to life. We are bringing the animals we love to life by rediscovering those animals through fossils. Learn about different types of dinosaurs and what was special about each one. Put your paleontologist hat on and start working on getting closer to the land of Dinosaurs. Are you ready to ROAR?
d. Starcity
In a world named STARCITY, you can discover all types of things about the Earth. At STARCITY, you won’t find natural disasters, but you will learn all about them. STARCITY is also a place full of solutions, and you can build a structure strong enough to withhold these natural disasters. Oh but wait: STARCITY is even beyond the Earth- here you get to discover Galaxies, and space too! You get to work on a Space Mission to unravel a new planet and then learn ways of reporting your findings. Are our space astronauts ready?
e. Crime Detectives
Ever been to a birthday party where the cake got stolen?
Our birthday cake got stolen and our lead detective Mr. Albert the detective turtle is going to need all the help he can get from the smart scientists at this birthday party to identify the thief. Are you ready to gather, process and analyze evidence and use some awesome scientific method techniques to nab the thief? Mr. Albert can use some detective STEM skills to investigate the birthday cake theft. Are our detectives ready to get medal of honor from Mr. Albert?
f. Medieval Times
Calling all princesses, princes, knights, peasants, kings, and queens! Come hop into our time machine and go to the medieval times. The medieval era wasn’t just war and fighting. You don’t wait for knights in shining armor to save you, instead you build the shining armor and find solutions to solve medieval time problems. Help the medieval engineers to build your own medieval city using machines that were present in the MEDIEVAL ERA. Understand these machines and design your own for efficient transport. Let’s go our awesome Engineers!
‘Escape The Lab’ Settings for small get togethers/Parties
Our ‘Escape The Lab’ is designed using the Science, Math and English challenges learnt at their grade level.
a. Alien Invasion
(Recommended grade 7 and up) Area 51 has a huge alien invasion and something comes crashing in. The alien cell is broken into pieces. Government agencies are trying to identify what the object is. Student scientist teams are hired to work on the parts of the alien cell and they have to assemble parts together to identify the complete cell. Each team will contribute to assemble the cell: failure or success is going to be instrumental to identify the alien cell and find the means to protect humans.
b. Zombie Apocalypse
(Recommended grade 8 and up)Student teams will be working to save the earth from the zombie invasion. Using Periodic Table and Chemical composition/reactions and applying properties of elements they will find an antidote locked in the box.
c. Planet in Danger
(Recommended grade 6 and up) People have been sneaking in various species of plants and animals which are undergoing mutations and new mutated varieties are presenting a huge threat to the ecosystem. Teams will need to work together to find the invasive species using clues presented to them.
d. To the Space and Beyond
(Recommended grade 5 and up) New planet was discovered, teams need to build a rocketship & parts are locked away with different combinations.Team works on unlocking parts of the rocketship through clues and building the rocketship to launch it.
Inventor’s Corner
Teach Your Child How to Innovate
We take our students’ interest in science and teach them how to build things, channel that energy so they can have the structure to create something real and become future innovators.
The inventor’s corner program is a 9 month program. Out of the 9 months, 3 months are dedicated to each core discipline of science. Our students meet once a week for an hour to learn the scientific method of invention during our Inventor’s Corner. Our instructor goes through the step by step method of investigation and students are trained for each step.
Students select a project from each of the three core disciplines of science such as Biology, Physics and Chemistry. Students begin their training in scientific methods under the guidance of our teacher and diligently work towards building their project and investigate. Students learn how to design the experiment, analyze data and derive conclusions to test their hypothesis.
This program has immensely benefited students by increasing their level of understanding as well as confidence for science projects and participation in regional, state level as well as international science fairs.
School STEM Field Trips
Our STEM Field trips are for classroom size of 25 students and are hands-on and interactive. Each level is designed to have an integrated approach with ELA, Math and Science standards.
Kindergarten: Earth’s Systems
Explore different patterns in weather and indicators using sensor technology
1st Grade: Sound and Light Engineering Lab
Design and build a device that can use sound and light energy for functioning
2nd Grade: What’s the Matter?
Classification of different forms of Matter using experimentation and building models and working on experiments for matter inter-conversions
3rd Grade: Engineering Lab
Sound, Light and Magnetic energy application to solve a design problem
4th Grade: ‘Man vs. Earth’ Engineering Challenge
Using Civil engineering concepts to test structures for enduring various earth’s processes.
5th Grade: Race to the Moon
New planet was discovered, teams need to build a rocketship & parts are locked away with different combinations.Team works on unlocking parts of the rocketship through clues and build the rocketship to launch it.
6th Grade: EARTH IN DANGER (ESCAPE THE LAB)
People have been sneaking in various species of plants and animals which are undergoing mutations and new mutated varieties are presenting a huge threat to the ecosystem. Teams will need to work together to find the invasive species using clues presented to them.
Homework Help/Tutoring (K-8) grade
Don’t sweat over getting your kids homework done after you get back from your long day at work.
Instead enjoy time with them and let our homework helpers get their homework done during the homework help time. The dedicated time to get the homework done This also gets the students in the discipline and habit of finishing work with
focused attention.
K-2 grade students:
Homework help for Math and Sciences. Our homework
helpers will work with your student to get the homework done and guide them on the concepts tested on homework.
3-5:
Homework help for Sciences. Our homework helpers will work with your students to get their science homework done and guide them on the concepts tested on homework.
6-8 grade students:
Our team
Dr Puja Saxena
Dr Puja Saxena is a PhD in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology -Roorkee, India. She did her post-doctoral fellowship at Resource Center for Science & Engineering, San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is passionate about science and research. She has 21 research publications in various National and International journals. She won the best research project award for developing a new technique for Uric acid determination in blood at her Masters level.
She has been tutoring students throughout her studies from Bachelor to PhD. She mentored various Masters students during her doctoral studies. She taught science in middle school and also taught Chemistry and took laboratory courses for bachelor’s and Masters students in India. She also worked in the area of intellectual property in a firm in Arizona before giving up her full time job to take care of her two girls who are now 11 and 7, and aspire to be scientists like their mom and dad who holds a doctorate degree in Physics. Dr Saxena loves to read and talk about science. She believes in learning science through experimentation and wants to share her passion for science with more and more students. She is starting the New Edge STEM Academy Branch in Nashua which caters to experiment based science learning for K-8. She wants kids to love science and not get stressed out doing it. She enjoys books, playing badminton and spending quality indoor and outdoor time with her two girls!
Dr Deepak Varshney
Dr Deepak Varshney is a doctorate in Chemical Physics from the University of Puerto Rico. He did his Master’s in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee, India. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Mathematics. He is a passionate researcher and had 3 filed patent application and 16 research publications in various reputed journals at the time of his PhD. He has 11 years of post-PhD research experience in Physics and Material Science with 4 granted patents and 4 filed patent applications. He worked as a Research Scientist in a start-up ZHRO LLC in Chandler, Arizona from 2013-2018. He is currently working as a Principal Material Scientist in Advance Materials division of Huntsman Corporation at Merrimack, New Hampshire. He plays a key role in developing new materials for various government funded projects from NASA, ARPA-E etc.
Dr Varshney endeavours to inculcate a love for Physics in students. He has four years of tutoring experience in Physics and Mathematics with middle and high school students in India. He has a knack of teaching Physics through instruction and experimentation in a way that even the complicated concepts become easy to grasp and understand. He has been successful in inspiring many students to take up Physics as a subject at various levels. He is also passionate about basketball and represented his team at university level. He likes to sing, play pool and chess. He spends his free time playing with his two daughters and experimenting new things with them.