Newton's Attic

Newton's Attic Newton's Attic, founded in 1998 by Bill Cloyd, provides students with STEM education in an unusual and creative way.

Its mission is to stimulate interest in science and engineering through exciting, hands-on projects, classes, summer camps, and more.

🚨 SUMMER CAMP SPOTS STILL AVAILABLE NEXT WEEK! 🚨⚡ Featured Camp: Tesla Tykes (1st-3rd Grade)Young inventors will explore...
06/10/2026

🚨 SUMMER CAMP SPOTS STILL AVAILABLE NEXT WEEK! 🚨

⚡ Featured Camp: Tesla Tykes (1st-3rd Grade)
Young inventors will explore the amazing world of Nikola Tesla through hands-on electricity and circuitry projects! Kids will build, experiment, and discover the science behind one of history's greatest inventors while igniting their own curiosity and creativity.

🎢 Featured Camp: Rube Goldberg Machines (5th-8th Grade, PM)
One of our most popular engineering camps! Students will create outrageous chain-reaction machines from vintage parts, gadgets, and everyday materials. Along the way they'll learn engineering, problem-solving, tool skills, and creative thinking—all while building contraptions that are as hilarious as they are ingenious.

🔥 Featured All-Day Camp: Forging – Ornamental (7th-10th Grade)
Spend the entire day in the forge creating beautiful handmade metal décor for your home or garden. Students will learn real blacksmithing techniques while crafting unique ornamental pieces they'll be proud to display for years to come.

All Available Camps

AM Camps
🔬 Camp Chemistry I (1st-3rd)
⚙️ Rube Goldberg Machines (3rd-5th)
🤖 Lego Robotics (5th-8th)
🛡️ Medieval Warcraft (5th-8th)

PM Camps
⚡ Tesla Tykes (1st-3rd)
💻 Robocoding (1st-3rd)
🚀 Kerbal Space Program (3rd-5th)
🕵️ Spy Gear (3rd-5th)
🎪 The Science Show (3rd-5th)
🪄 Muggle Magicians (5th-8th)
🎢 Rube Goldberg Machines (5th-8th)
⚔️ Medieval Warcraft (7th-10th)

ALL DAY
🔥 Forging: Ornamental (7th-10th)

These camps are filling quickly, so don't wait! Give your child a summer they'll remember with hands-on STEM, engineering, science, robotics, and making.

📍 Register today at https://newtonsattic.com/summer-camps/

🚨 16 NEW CAMP SESSIONS JUST ADDED! 🚨Due to incredible demand, we've expanded our summer camp lineup with 16 additional c...
06/09/2026

🚨 16 NEW CAMP SESSIONS JUST ADDED! 🚨

Due to incredible demand, we've expanded our summer camp lineup with 16 additional camp sessions—including two brand-new camps making their debut this summer and the return of a fan favorite!

🌟 NEW! What's in the Night Sky? (Grades 1–3) 🌟

Calling all future astronauts, scientists, and stargazers! This brand-new camp takes students on an exciting journey through space as they explore stars, constellations, planets, comets, rockets, astronauts, satellites, and more.

Through hands-on projects, campers will create constellation viewers, moon phase models, mini galaxy jars, solar system projects, rockets, and even their own comets and satellites. They'll investigate real astronomy images, ask big questions about the universe, and learn how humans explore space from Earth and beyond.

🚀 The week culminates in a Space Exploration Museum, where students create exhibits showcasing everything they've discovered and share them with their families!

🦗 NEW! Animal Kingdom Explorers: Dissect & Discover! (Grades 3–5) 🐍

Also making its debut this year, Animal Kingdom Explorers gives students the chance to become real-life biologists as they investigate the incredible diversity of the animal kingdom.

From crawfish and grasshoppers to snakes, birds, and mammals, campers will discover how different animals are built, how they survive, and the amazing adaptations that make them unique. Through guided dissections and hands-on investigations, students will explore muscles, organs, and body systems up close while learning how scientists study living things.

🔬 It's messy, fascinating, unforgettable, and perfect for curious kids who want to go beyond the textbook and experience biology firsthand.

💦 WATER WARS IS BACK! 💦

One of our most requested camps has returned!

Get ready to cool off this summer by building air-powered supersoakers, water balloon launchers, water rockets, and other high-powered water gadgets. Campers will learn engineering concepts like pressure, fluid flow, and design while putting their creations to the test in the ultimate water-filled adventure.

🔧 Build it. Test it. Launch it. Get soaked.

➕ We've also added new sessions of:
🔨 Forging Basics
⚒️ Forging Knives & Tools
🔥 Forging & Metal Work
🎮 Minecraft MCreator
🧪 Chemistry II

📅 All of these newly added camps are open for registration NOW!

Many of these programs have already proven to be extremely popular, and spots are expected to fill quickly. If there was a camp you wanted that was previously full—or if one of these new opportunities catches your eye—now is the time to register!

We have extended the early bird special for the girls-only space prep! Register for this spectacular program today!
06/03/2026

We have extended the early bird special for the girls-only space prep! Register for this spectacular program today!

Newton's Attic has spots available next week! Don't miss out on these great classes!!
06/02/2026

Newton's Attic has spots available next week! Don't miss out on these great classes!!

☀️ Summer Camp 2026 starts this morning, and we are so excited to welcome our students back to Newton’s Attic!We can’t w...
06/01/2026

☀️ Summer Camp 2026 starts this morning, and we are so excited to welcome our students back to Newton’s Attic!

We can’t wait for a summer full of building, creating, exploring, problem-solving, and hands-on fun. We have so many exciting new camps this year, and it’s going to be a great summer!

It’s also not too late to sign up — even for classes happening this week! We still have some spots available, so if your child is looking for something fun, creative, and engaging to do this summer, now is a great time to join us.

We can’t wait to see everyone! 🚀🔧🤖

🎬🔬 LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION! 🔬🎬offered:3rd-5th grade: weeks of 6/15 and 7/20 5th-8th grade: week of 7/27What happens when ...
05/20/2026

🎬🔬 LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION! 🔬🎬

offered:
3rd-5th grade: weeks of 6/15 and 7/20
5th-8th grade: week of 7/27

What happens when science, storytelling, and performance collide?
The Newton’s Attic Science Show!

In this exciting STEM-based class, students will create, rehearse, film, edit, and perform their own fast-paced science segments while exploring topics like:
🧲 Magnetism
🌎 Biodiversity
☁️ Weather
🧪 States of Matter

Campers will work together to produce an original episode of The Newton’s Attic Science Show and celebrate with an exclusive premiere at the end of the week!

This unique class was created and is taught by Amy Mayer — a retired Montessori-trained educator with more than 20 years of teaching experience and a lifelong background in theatre and performance.

Amy holds a degree in Theatre Arts from Miami University and a Master’s in Education from the University of Cincinnati. She also studied theatre and dance through UC’s College-Conservatory of Music preparatory program and continues performing today with Studio Players in Lexington.

A beloved Newton’s Attic instructor and former Sayre School teacher, Amy brings together science, creativity, storytelling, and performance in a way that keeps students engaged, confident, and excited to learn.

If your child loves science, acting, video creation, storytelling, or performing — this class is made for them!

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🚀 DESIGN IT. CUT IT. BUILD IT.What if your child could learn engineering from a real engineer using real industrial tool...
05/20/2026

🚀 DESIGN IT. CUT IT. BUILD IT.

What if your child could learn engineering from a real engineer using real industrial tools?

In this incredible hands-on experience, students will work directly with Newton’s Attic founder and professional engineer Bill Cloyd to learn how ideas move from concept to reality. Campers will create digital CAD designs and then bring them to life using a powerful waterjet cutter — the same type of technology used in modern manufacturing and engineering industries.

Students will design and create projects using materials like:
🪵 Wood
🪟 Glass
⚙️ Steel
🪨 Granite

Possible projects include:
✨ Custom glass ornaments
🛏 Layered bedroom signs
🌳 Yard signs
🔥 Fire pits
💡 Light-up signs
🪑 Furniture and more!

Along the way, students will gain real-world engineering and maker skills including:
📐 CAD (Computer-Aided Design)
📏 Precision measurement
🧠 Design thinking
⚙️ Material behavior and engineering
🔩 Layout, tolerances, and fabrication

This is far more than a craft class — it’s an authentic engineering lab experience where students think, design, and build like real engineers.

For the base tuition, campers can create small-medium personalized projects. Larger specialty builds may require additional material costs, and families will always be contacted for approval beforehand.

If your child loves building, designing, creating, or engineering, this is an opportunity unlike anything else this summer.

Bill is instructing this class the first week of summer camp: June 8 and the last week of summer camp: August 3. THERE ARE SPOTS AVAILABLE!!!

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Most people know games like Monopoly and The Game of Life… but that’s just the beginning. 🎲In this exciting Newton’s Att...
05/20/2026

Most people know games like Monopoly and The Game of Life… but that’s just the beginning. 🎲

In this exciting Newton’s Attic class, students will discover the incredible world of modern tabletop games — filled with strategy, teamwork, creativity, problem-solving, and fast-paced decision making.

Each day, students will learn and play several carefully selected games that are not only fun and social, but also designed to strengthen critical thinking and real-world skills.

Students will explore:
⚔️ Resource management games
🧠 Strategy and planning games
🤝 Cooperative team games
🗺 Spatial reasoning challenges
🎴 Deck-building games
🎯 Games blending luck, tactics, and adaptability

Featured games may include:
🏝 Settlers of Catan
🤖 Robot Quest Arena
🌍 Pandemic
🚂 C**t Express
🔥 Fire Tower
🏰 Tiny Towns
🕵️ Scotland Yard
🃏 Coup
…and many more!

While students are having fun, they’ll also build valuable skills including:
✔ Problem-solving
✔ Communication
✔ Teamwork
✔ Perseverance
✔ Memory and focus
✔ Adaptability
✔ Confidence
✔ Resilience
✔ Sportsmanship
✔ Strategic thinking

Students won’t just play the games once — they’ll replay them to test new strategies, adapt to changing situations, and improve their decision-making skills over time.

As UK mathematics professor Benjamin Braun explains:
“Playing board games are a joy-filled way for students to make friends and develop logical reasoning, perseverance, and social skills that are key to success in school and in life.”

Whether your child already loves games or has never explored modern tabletop gaming before, this class offers an engaging, social, and highly interactive experience that combines learning and fun in the best possible way.

Offered the week of:
5th-8th: 6/22, 6/29, 7/06, 7/20
7th-10th: 6/08, 6/22, 7/13

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Calling all future spies, inventors, and gadget builders! 🕵️‍♀️🔧SPOTS AVAILABLE the week of 6/1/2026 for 3rd-5th and 5th...
05/19/2026

Calling all future spies, inventors, and gadget builders! 🕵️‍♀️🔧

SPOTS AVAILABLE the week of 6/1/2026 for 3rd-5th and 5th-8th!

In this hands-on, project-based class, students will design, craft, and modify their own collection of hidden gadgets and spy gear while exploring the fascinating world of secret technology and code breaking.

From wrist-mounted launchers and coded messages to custom spy tools and interactive gadgets, students won’t just learn about spy technology — they’ll build it themselves.

Campers will:
🛠 Use hand and power tools
🔐 Learn Morse code and code breaking
🧩 Create custom code wheels and secret messages
⚡ Build take-home gadgets and spy equipment
🕶 Explore how spy technology has changed over time

Students will leave with their own collection of projects, new maker skills, and plenty of secret-agent knowledge.

Please note: Spy Gear is offered for both 3rd–5th and 5th–8th grade groups. The classes contain many of the same projects, but are separated by age to allow students to work with peers closer to their skill and experience level.

Closed-toe shoes are required. Newton’s Attic will provide eye and ear protection.

Incoming coded transmission:
/pɹɐʍǝɹ lɐᴉɔǝds ɐ ɹoɟ suƃᴉsǝp ʇǝɹɔǝs ǝɥʇ lɐǝʇs oʇ ǝʇǝdɯoƆ/

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🌿⚔️ Aradyn Wildcraft is now open for girls TOO! ⚔️🌿Adventure, survival skills, creativity, crafting, teamwork, and hands...
05/19/2026

🌿⚔️ Aradyn Wildcraft is now open for girls TOO! ⚔️🌿

Adventure, survival skills, creativity, crafting, teamwork, and hands-on fun aren’t just for boys. Girls who love the outdoors, fantasy worlds, building, exploring, and creating belong in Wildcraft too!

Campers will craft gear, complete challenges, learn wilderness-inspired skills, and step into the world of Aradyn through immersive adventures and hands-on projects.

Whether your child is a warrior, ranger, inventor, explorer, or creative thinker — there’s a place for them in Aradyn Wildcraft.

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4974 Old Versailles Road
Lexington, KY
40510

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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