Shine Child is a K-12 makerspace community for children and students. We teach kids to identify their interests, follow their passion, and challenge their innate creativity to achieve a brighter, more focused future.

We offer different learning programs that are designed to bring out the potential of each student we work with. Whether their interest is in science and technology or they have a strong fascination on business, we will help them develop their skills early on and groom them for the career they plan to take on in the future.

We believe that children need freedom to help them explore the world around them. This is why at Shine Child, we provide the right space, tools, materials, and technology to encourage them to experiment, build, and design projects related to their interests, whether it be science, math, engineering, or arts.

Through this structure, we are motivating our students to develop their creativity, critical thinking, decision making, and problem solving skills. Unlike traditional school and academic curriculum, we are not limited by textbook-based information. Instead, we apply the knowledge that they have in school to solving practical and real-life problems.

We also practice collaboration and socialization, and foster leadership at a young age. At the end of a Shine Child program, your children would have gained courage, confidence, and self-reliance that they could take on actual projects, problems, and challenges.

Shine Chile offers three after school entrepreneurship programs for children and students who are in the 3^rd to 12^th grade. We believe that be exposing them early to the fundamentals and concepts of business and various careers available, they would be able to identify their passion and calling as early as their primary level in school.

Our learning programs include: the Biz Maker Program, the STEAM Maker Program, and the Change Maker Program.

• Biz Makers Program: This 36-week beginners’ entrepreneurship course aims to introduce the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, encourage students to come up with creative ideas, and help them launch their business.

• STEAM Makers Program: This 9-month enrichment program is designed to bring out the innovative and creative skills of students. It exposes kids to hands-on science experiments, engineering challenges, and arts and design projects.

• Change Makers Program: This program is a traditional course, done in unit studies about change makers throughout history. Students will learn about influential people in business and technology, inspiring them to find opportunities for making a difference.

For more information about each of these programs, simply visit their individual pages.

Adults often underestimate the capabilities and competencies of children. Truth is, given the right guidance, tools, and opportunity, kids will prove to us that they are very capable of doing amazing things in school, business, and life.

We believe in this fact. This is why we want to develop them further. Through our programs, we want to bring out their potential and prepare them for the real life after school.

Join us as we develop future leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs!

Objective:

To provide beginners’ entrepreneurship education, skills training, and support to young students who are considering business as a future career option.

Program Description:

Biz Makers Program is a 36-week entrepreneurship course that focuses around the foundation of business, creating business ideas, and launching your business.

It is a beginners’ entrepreneurship program, and therefore, will start with a discussion on terminologies, concepts, and fundamentals of entrepreneurship. As an enrichment course, the Biz Maker can be enjoyed as an after school learning program or a supplement to homeschool education.

In the program, students will be grouped according to their age and will work together to come up with a business idea that they will implement later on. Each group is expected to follow the fundamentals of entrepreneurship to help them launch their business.

At the end of the program, all the participants of Biz Makers Program in each location will vote for “The Business of the Year” award. Each location winner gets to be a finalist to present their business before a panel of judges. The judges will then select the ultimate recipient of the “The Biz Makers Startup Business of the Year” award.

Who is the Biz Makers Program For?

The Biz Makers Program is designed for children and students who are in the 3^rd to 12^th grade and:

• Are interested in learning about business and entrepreneurship
• Are creative, resourceful, curious, and a risk taker
• Want to develop their creativity, critical thinking, decision making, and problem solving skills
• Are considering building their own business after school
• Have an existing business idea in mind
• Love to sell products, offer services, and negotiate with other people
• Dream of running their own company in the future

And simply anyone who wants to level up their knowledge and familiarity on entrepreneurship for kids.

Fees and Schedule:

The Biz Makers Program costs $99/year. It runs from September to June.

Objective:

To provide a fun learning environment to young students and support their interest in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math.

Program Description:

STEAM Makers Program is a 9-month program designed for children in the 3^rd to 12^th grades, focusing on education, training, and support on fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math.

Participants will meet once a month from September to June and will collaborate to perform experiments, challenges, and design projects. Students will be grouped according to their grade level range, such as 3^rd to 5^th graders will form one group, 6^th to 8^th graders will form another, and 9^th to 12^th graders will form the last group.

The program is divided into 3 stages, with each stage lasting 3 months. On the first stage, students will be facilitated to perform hands-on science experiments (melscience.com). Next stage is about hands-on engineering challenges (kiwi.co). While the final 3 months will be about hands-on arts and design projects (kiwi.co).

At the beginning of the program, the students will be grouped into teams which will serve as their lab partners throughout the duration of course. Together, they will work through each month’s challenge. At the end of every challenge, students are expected to fill out a reflection paper to describe what they did, how they accomplished the project, and what they have learned. Attaching a photo of the activity is also recommended.

For students and teams from the 6^th to the 12^th grade, they will also be required to login to their online account at Shine Child website and start their online journal, narrating their experiences on their monthly activities. Their online journal can serve as a personal portfolio when they start applying to college or job hunting in the future.

Who is the STEAM Makers Program For?

The STEAM Makers Program is designed for children and students who are in the 3^rd to 12^th grade and:

• Have a fascination or interest in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math
• Want to be future scientists, engineers, innovators, tech experts, mathematicians, as well as creative artists
• Want to supplement their academic knowledge with practical problems and challenges
• Are fond of experiments, projects, challenges, and mental exercises
• Are creative, innovative, analytical, systematic, strategic, and a team player
• Want to develop their creativity, critical thinking, decision making, and problem solving skills
• Have an existing experiment idea in mind
• Dream of becoming a leader in the field of Science and Technology, IT, Engineering, Math, and Arts.

And simply anyone who wants to level up their knowledge and familiarity on STEAM disciplines.

Fees and Schedule:

The STEAM Makers Program costs $199/year. It runs from September to June.

Objective:

To inspire young students to make a difference in their community by introducing to them various change makers and influential individuals throughout history.

Program Description:

The Change Makers Program is a traditional learning course done in unit studies, focusing on different change makers throughout history. Students will learn about people like Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg among others to understand how these people have made an impact in today’s society and the world.

Through this program, students will be taught how to search for opportunities, or distinguish one, to make a difference in the community and in other people’s lives. It will include hands-on worksheet activities and exercises for the students to reinforce their knowledge.

This course is a “taster course”, designed to enhance the other two larger programs — the STEAM Makers and Biz Makers Programs. If your child is enrolled in one of these two programs, the Change Makers course is an excellent supplement.

Fee and Schedule:

The Change Makers Program costs $19/year. It runs from September to June.