PCY STEAM Night

PCY STEAM night is a special event filled with activities and demos to help get kids excited about all things STEAM! Sponsored by the PTA and organized by parent volunteers, STEAM night is currently hosted once in the fall and again in the spring. The first STEAM night of the year took place on November 12, 2025. Many thanks to everyone who stopped by!

The next STEAM night is scheduled for Wednesday, March 25, 2026. Please save the date as we plan to have more fun STEAM activities for the kids!

Booths for Wednesday, November 12, 2025:

• La Cañada Engineering Club (LCEC)
• Girls Who Code
• Carnegie Observatories (view the night sky through telescopes, weather permitting)
• Mt. Wilson Observatory
• Optometrist
• Dietitian
• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
• Caltech/IPAC

Some highlights from the 2024-2025 STEAM nights:

• "NASA Robots Today and Tomorrow" - presentation by special guest Vandi Verma, JPL Principal Engineer
• Telescopes made available by Carnegie Observatories - kids were able to view Jupiter and other celestial objects right from PCY!
• Open Source Rover project - build your own rover using store-bought materials
• Demos from Caltech and La Canada Engineering Club
• Science experiments and activities run by LCHS student volunteers

Local STEAM Events

City of STEM Festival & LA Maker Faire

On April 26th, join us for City of STEM + Los Angeles Maker Faire—the official science festival of Los Angeles County!

Southern California's largest celebration of science, making, creativity, invention, and fun will be free and open to the public with hands-on activities, amazing experiences, workshops, lectures and appearances by famous creators and science celebrities! This event reflects the diversity of the greater Los Angeles region and promotes access to science and creativity for all! This event is a combination of City of STEM and Los Angeles Maker Faire. The event will also include content in Spanish.

City of STEM + Los Angeles Maker Faire is a FREE, non-ticketed event. All are welcome.

SCaLE: The Next Generation

The Southern California Linux Expo, or SCaLE is an annual open source tech conference held in Pasadena every March. In recent years, they have established a youth track at the conference called SCaLE: The Next Generation (TNG) to allow students in grades 6-12 to participate in the conference and showcase their ideas to the open-source community. The event will take place at the Pasadena Convention Center on Saturday, March 7, from 11am to 5pm. More information can be found at the link below.

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/special-event/scale-youth