Chronological by design.
We start with how people discovered the idea, what they got wrong, and what changed next.
Kew Gardens, Queens · Sundays
For kids who need to touch the idea.
Real kids. Real tools. Real material. Recreation NOW is a small, handmade science club built around curiosity, deep dives and physical work — especially for kids who learn best by doing.
Small groupsNeurodivergent-friendlyNo boxed curriculumHands before screens
Real fossil preparation
Chemistry you can hold
Enter the subject
The Sunday schedule
Easy to find. Hard to mistake.
Every active Sunday has two Science Club classes. Fall 2026 begins with Chemistry 102.
Fall + Winter 2026–27 Every active Sunday · two classes
September
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no class 6 + 13October
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no class 4November
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December
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no class 27January
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February
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March
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no class 28April
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May
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June
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Not school. Not a boxed STEM kit.
Some kids learn sideways. Good.
Some children are at their best when they can move, obsess over a question, handle the object, take something apart, go down a useful rabbit hole and come back with a better idea. The class is built around that.
We teach the story. Then we put it in their hands.
Built with neurodivergent learners in mind.
Welcoming to any child who learns best by doing. Intensity, movement, unusual questions, deep focus and mistakes are not treated like problems to erase — they are things we can work with.
Hands before screens.
Build it, wire it, restore it, measure it, film it, prepare it or take it apart.
Serious material.
Real fossils, real mechanisms, real tools and experiments with enough substance to matter.
Small groups.
Enough structure to move forward, with enough room to follow the kid who sees something interesting.
Mistakes are usable.
Failure is data. We slow down, diagnose what happened and try again.
Handmade semesters.
No canned kit-of-the-week. Each semester becomes its own world, built around a big subject.
Most recent · Summer 2026
66 million years in their hands.
Our most recent paleontology semester centered on a gigantic real sauropod vertebra specimen. Students cleaned, exposed, stabilized and examined the fossil material using careful preparation techniques and real tools.
A real sauropod vertebra · roughly 66 million years old
The specimen
Fine preparation
Everybody worksSpring 2026 · Chemistry I
Chemistry got physical.
Students measured, mixed, tested, built electrochemical setups and made materials that behaved in ways they could see and feel — with lab coats, goggles and actual bench work.
The semester immediately before our Summer 2026 paleontology work.
102
Next up: Chemistry 102.
Fall 2026 picks up where Chemistry I left off — another semester built as a continuous story, with the experiments doing the explaining.
The archive
Every semester becomes its own world.
Recent work leads the site, but the older semesters matter too. The point is the range: fossils one season, circuits the next, then space, filmmaking, field work or something none of us has tried before.
Electricity & Engineering
Wire it. Test it. Tear it apart.
Students built circuits, traced wiring, opened real machines and learned what components are actually doing instead of just snapping together a kit.
Space & Flight
Turn the room into somewhere else.
Projection, simulation, models and lighting let students step into orbital mechanics and flight instead of only looking at diagrams on a page.
Earlier Paleontology
Real prep work started years ago.
Students have excavated, cleaned, examined and prepared prehistoric material across multiple semesters — from early dig-table work to increasingly serious fossil preparation.
Filmmaking · Foley · Production
Make the whole thing.
The filmmaking semester moved from the invisible parts of movies — Foley, sound and editing — into an actual shoot. Students acted, handled props and sound, watched camera work happen around them and saw how separate pieces become a finished movie.
Watch the finished student film on YouTube
The room changes with the subject
Bespoke on purpose.
The club is closer to a workshop than a standard classroom. Projectors, work lights, artifacts, tools, props and half-finished builds come and go depending on what the semester needs.
Screen as a toolProjection can make the room immersive, but it never replaces the hands-on work.
Real objectsSpecimens, mechanisms and materials give abstract ideas weight.
Room to moveKids can stand, gather, switch stations and work in ways that fit the task.
Built week by weekThe environment changes because the curriculum does.
Come see it for yourself
Try the club before you commit.
If your child is the one who needs to touch it, question it, take it apart or go deeper than the worksheet allows, come visit the room and try a 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