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Super-creative Beam Camp Launches After-School Classes in Cobble Hill

4/1/12 - By Anna Fader

I've long been a fan of Beam Summer Camp, a unique sleepaway camp where kids collaborate on different creative projects in building, science and art each session. So I was excited to hear that Beam is bringing its coolness to after-school workshops here in Brooklyn.

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Beginning Monday, April 16, Inventgenuity Workshops will be held at the new Beam Center on Bergen Street in Cobble Hill, with three-week projects in design, technology, storytelling, crafts and more for kids in second through ninth grades. The new after-school program was inspired by Beam's popular annual Inventgenuity Festival, which we've raved about in the past. Workshops will include subjects such as Intro to Electronics, Making Square-Wave Oscillators, Guitar Building, Fanzines, Fibers, Looming and Yarn, and more. Pick-up from many Brooklyn schools can be provided and financial aid is available. Find out more at InventgenuityWorkshops.org.

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Anna Fader

Founder of Mommy Poppins

A fourth-generation Brooklynite, Anna started Mommy Poppins in 2007 to help families find the best things to do with kids in NYC, with a particular emphasis on sharing activities that are free, affordable, and enriching. The site, used by millions of families, has grown to become the ultimate resource for parents in the major US cities, plus travel guides for 100s of destinations.

Anna is a believer in the magic of summer camps, traveling with kids, and that you can raise kids on a budget and still have a rich life full of amazing memories. Anna's first Mommy Poppins book, The Young Traveler's Journal and Activity Book, published in 2025 and co-written with her daughter, Amelia Eigerman, brings that ethos to life, in addition to this website.

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