Specialties
Monthly Memberships | Birthday Parties | Summer Camps
Featuring our kid-friendly, yet commercial-grade kitchen (including 12 Kitchenaid mixers), awesome science lab, tech station with 12 Ipads, arts & crafts lab, and more...Rigatoni & Robots enrichment classes, summer camps, and birthday parties offer the nation's first culinary, science, engineering, and STEM tech curriculum-blend programs for children ages 6-12. Whether building a robot or whipping up crème brûlée french toast...Rigatoni & Robots is the place to be for hands-on fun and enrichment. Come join the fun!
History
Established in 2013.
Founded in 2013 by Laurie Gannon-Lotte, Rigatoni & Robots was a dream in the making for nearly two decades. As the nation's first enrichment program to offer an award-winning culinary, science, and STEM curriculum blend...Rigatoni & Robots was created with two visions in mind: to bring a level of hands-on fun, energy, and excitement to STEM-related fields of study that schools traditionally tend to overlook or lack the time and resources to cover, and to offer an enrichment program that filled a void for children who have interests is building, inventing, creating, discovering, and collaborating. Originally offering 1-hr classes/once a week, in January of 2016 we decided to switch gears and offer classes twice-per-month for a 3-hr block, and as a drop-in format where parents don't stay. The result was phenomenal from every aspect. Longer classes meant more in-depth lessons, lasting friendships among students, and parents now had 3 hrs to themselves...even offering valet drop off!
Meet the Business Owner: Laurie L.
Founded in 2013 by Laurie Gannon-Lotte, Rigatoni&Robots was a dream in the making for nearly two decades. With Master's degrees in both Education & Science and a former elementary school teacher, Laurie spent 8 years developing GATE science curriculum, and after having a toddler of her own obsessed with all things dinosaur, subsequently founded the nation's first summer camp program for kids that offered a unique combination of science, cooking, and sports that still operates today...over 20 years later. Rigatoni&Robots took that summer camp foundation and brought it to a year-round facility. Created with two visions in mind: to bring a level of hands-on fun, energy, and excitement to STEM-related fields of study that schools traditionally tend to overlook or lack the time and resources to cover, and to offer an enrichment program that filled a void for children who have interests is building, inventing, creating, discovering, and collaborating.