Get ready for a day of FREE educational children’s activities and fun for the whole family!
Saturday, May 2 | 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Johnson County Community College: Midwest Trust Center
12345 College Blvd., Overland Park, KS
Children must accompanied by an adult chaperone at all times.
Join us for a range of FREE hands-on educational activities led by JCCC faculty and community organizations for Remake Learning Days 2026. This Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM) learning festival is completely FREE to the public!
All are welcome to attend!
Family friendly lunch and snack options will be available for purchase at several conveniently located locations on campus. Use a campus map to plan your day.
This festival is held rain or shine! All activities are scheduled to take place INSIDE.
A Whole Day of Fun
- Activities run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., with a reset break from noon-1 p.m.
- Performing Arts acts will take place every 20 minutes in Yardley Hall starting at 10 a.m., including through the noon reset.
- 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. – Joey FineRhyme returns to JCCC with an exciting, family-friendly show to close out the day. At the core of FineRhyme’s show is Raptivism — rap activism — music that inspires action on the environment and climate change by making them emotionally accessible through hip-hop.
Confirmed Performances
A full lineup of exciting performing arts shows will perform every 20 minutes throughout the day, including over the afternoon break from noon–1 p.m.
3 Trails Taiko
For an experience that brings both culture and music, experience the sound of “Taiko,” the Japanese word from drum, in this passionate group drum performance. Visit their Facebook page.
Theatre of the Imagination
This inclusive children’s acting school puts on a show featuring young stars in the local area.
Gurukul Academy
Art has no boundaries! This Indian classical dance school brings unique Indian dance to a local stage.
Driscoll Dancers
This Irish Dance School offer classes for all levels from Beginner through Championship level for children and adults.
Ko Martial Arts
Ko Martial Arts will perform a high-energy Taekwondo demonstration showcasing powerful kicks, board breaking, and synchronized forms. The audience will experience how discipline, focus, and resilience are developed through martial arts training
First Act Theatre Arts
First Act produces a selection of Broadway-style musicals and plays each year for a performance certain to be colorful and exciting
PAVE Performing Arts
Enjoy a musical performance from the kids who love it the most! PAVE creative is a space to create, innovate, and expand passion for the music and arts.
Ready, Set, Go!
Get ready for a full day of learning, exploring and fun! Take a look at all the fun hands-on activities available at this year’s festival!
Science Activities
Available 10 a.m.-Noon
Hosted by: Museum at Prairiefire
Museum at Prairiefire
Investigate a collection of cool rock samples and see if you can spot the one that journeyed all the way from outer space!
Students will be presented different rock samples from our Discovery Room, one of which being a real meteorite. They'll be given the chance to look at and interact with the samples before making a guess. The reveal will be that a magnet will stick to the real meteorite, since it's made of iron. Students can also make a craft meteor/comet they can fly around.
Available 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: KC Farm School
KC Farm School at Gibbs Road
Plant your own speedy microgreens, take them home and watch them sprout right on your windowsill.
KC Farm School will provide pots, soil, and seeds for families to pot their own microgreens. We will send them home with their pots in plastic baggies so that they don't spill.
Available 10 a.m.–Noon and 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: My Gym
My Gym Children's Fitness Center
An exciting obstacle course with five interactive stops lets children discover how their bodies work while they move! Each station focuses on something important—using their leg muscles to jump and run, practicing balance and core strength, understanding how their heart keeps them energized, learning why breathing matters during exercise, and finishing with why cooling down helps their muscles recover and stay healthy.
Available 10 a.m.–Noon and 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: JCCC's Department of Biology
Biology | Johnson County Community College
Create your very own “Bony Buddy” skeleton and discover how bones work together to hold you up, help you move, and keep your body strong!
Young scientists will try their best to assemble a full human skeleton model while learning the names and locations of the major bones that hold us upright. As they build, they’ll discover how bones like the skull, spine, ribs, and femur support movement and protect important organs. Through hands-on exploration and guided discussion, children will gain a fun, memorable understanding of how their skeleton keeps them standing tall and strong.
Available 10 a.m.–Noon and 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: Kansas Alliance for Wetlands and Streams
Kansas Alliance for Wetlands and Streams
The Watershed Health Simulation explores a mini world with farms, cities, parks, and new neighborhoods! Watch how pollution travels through water, discover how it affects communities, and learn cool, real-life ways to keep our rivers and lakes clean. You’ll leave knowing how YOU can help protect Kansas water!
Available 10 a.m.–Noon and 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: JOCO Master Gardeners Club
Extension Master Gardeners
In this exciting hands-on session, you’ll discover how to create a garden that welcomes important pollinator friends like buzzing bees and fluttering butterflies. Learn which plants and flowers attract these helpful visitors, why pollinators play such an important role in our environment, and how small gardens can make a big difference.
You’ll also explore fun and creative garden design ideas—thinking about colors, shapes, and plant placement—to build a space that is both beautiful and beneficial for pollinators. To bring your ideas to life, you’ll plant your own seeds to take home and care for, beginning your very own bright, blooming pollinator garden!
Available 10 a.m.–Noon and 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: JCCC's Dept of Chemistry
Chemistry | Johnson County Community College
Snap on those safety goggles and visit one of our Chemistry Labs as you experiment and explore making different colors through hands-on activities.
We will explore how different atoms make different colors. You’ll get to explore how different firework colors are made and try some of the tools scientists use to see those colors. We will also explore different colors using red cabbage juice as an acid-based indicator. Participants can also use model kits to make different compounds.
Available 10 a.m.–Noon and 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge
Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Discover the amazing world of birds in this hands-on adventure! Can you build a bird from beak to tail using all the right parts? Spread your “wings” and see if you can survive a migration journey full of fun challenges. Then, let your creativity soar as you design and decorate your very own bird mask to wear and take home.
Technology Activities
Available 10 a.m.-Noon
Hosted by: STEAM Studio
STEAM Studio
Code, create, and play as you guide Ozobots through a hands-on activity that makes coding fun and accessible for all ages!
Participants will start by guiding an Ozobot through a pre-designed course to learn how simple codes control movement, speed, and direction. After exploring how the robot responds, they’ll design and build their own custom course using colors, paths, and challenges to bring their ideas to life. This hands-on activity encourages creativity, problem-solving, and experimentation as participants test, revise, and watch their Ozobot navigate a course they designed themselves.
Available 10 a.m.-Noon
Hosted by: Joey FineRhyme
About - Joey FineRhyme
At this interactive learning station, students generate their own smoothie by pedaling a bike-powered blender, turning physical movement into real, usable energy. Beyond riding, participants explore how everyday choices—what we eat, how we move, and how we power things—affect both personal health and the health of the planet.
Available 10 a.m.-Noon
Hosted by: JCCC's Department of Web Development and Digital Media
Web Development and Digital Media | Johnson County Community College
Turn everyday objects into awesome movie magic by creating your own sound effects to match short animated video clips.
There will be three laptop stations set up with a 1-2 minute long video animation. The video animation will not have sound playing. Visitors will need to be able to play, pause, and stop the video. Next to the laptop there will be everyday items that will be used to mimic the type of sound effects that a foley artist would normally use to create the sounds. Examples would include things like paper, shoes, gravel, etc. Students will be able to cycle through the stations to see how each video uses different types of objects. Nearby there can be examples on signage of other common items used to create popular sounds that might not be in the video examples to help explain the concept further.
Available 10 a.m.–Noon and 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: Bach to Rock Music School
Bach to Rock Leawood
Join Bach to Rock as they introduce students to beat making, DJ’ing, and music production through the use of engaging music technology! Through hands-on activities with percussion instruments, interactive movement exercises, and playful tempo-based characters, students explore rhythm and creativity while building foundational musical skills and confidence.
Available 10 a.m.–Noon and 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: JCCC Police Department
JCCC Police Department | Johnson County Community College
Meet the JCCC Police to connect with friendly officers and learn about safety! Kids will participate in interactive activities designed to teach important safety tips and explore the technology officers use every day to help keep our community safe. Everyone will leave with a better understanding of community safety—and some cool police-themed swag!
Available 10 a.m.–Noon and 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: JCCC's Type 65 Kit Car Build Group
Automotive Technology | Johnson County Community College
Team up, solve fun challenges, and unlock the pieces you need to build your very own paper kit-car!
Answer fun automotive questions with your team and collect pieces of your very own paper kit car with every correct answer. Work together, connect the pieces, and once your car is complete, add your own colors and designs to make it truly yours!
Available 10 a.m.–Noon and 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: JCCC Dept of CSIS
Computer Information Systems | Johnson County Community College Catalog
Welcome to the Digital Pet Adoption Center! You will be given a small booklet where you can fill out details about your Digital Pet using coordinates, binary, color codes, and even encoding your pet name. Once you're done, your pet will be added into the Digital Garden with everyone else's, you'll be able to take home your booklet, and you may get a sweet surprise from your new friend!
Available 10 a.m.–Noon and 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: JCCC Department of National Academy of Railroad Science
NARS – National Academy of Railroad Sciences
Do you love to learn about how things are made? Join this fun, quick and edible activity as you learn about blueprints, welding symbols and inspections.
Using blueprint instructions, participants will use graham crackers and icing to learn the concept of welding, including the various techniques and the meaning behind instructional symbols. Apply a weld using cupcake icing and inspect the size of your weld… When finished, snack on your hard work!
Engineering Activities
Available 10 a.m.-Noon
Hosted by: JOCO 4H Oxford Hustlers Club
4-H Youth Development
Get ready for takeoff with the Johnson County 4-H Ambassadors as you design and launch awesome paper airplanes that mimic the aerodynamics of real aircraft! Discover clever folding techniques that boost distance, add speed, or change the way your plane soars and swoops through the air. Then put your skills to the test in this hands-on adventure—create, measure, tweak, and refine your own high-flying designs as you engineer the ultimate miniature aircraft!
Available 10 a.m.-Noon
Hosted by: STEAM Studio
STEAM Studio
Code, create, and play as you guide Ozobots through a hands-on activity that makes coding fun and accessible for all ages!
Participants will start by guiding an Ozobot through a pre-designed course to learn how simple codes control movement, speed, and direction. After exploring how the robot responds, they’ll design and build their own custom course using colors, paths, and challenges to bring their ideas to life. This hands-on activity encourages creativity, problem-solving, and experimentation as participants test, revise, and watch their Ozobot navigate a course they designed themselves.
Available 10 a.m.–Noon and 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: Society of Women Engineers
Home Page - Kansas City
In this hands-on activity, you will work to design and build a functional prosthetic hand from scratch. Using everyday materials and the power of pneumatics, you will create a device that can open and close with just the force of air from a syringe system. Your team will have a limited time to brainstorm a design, construct your hand, and prepare for the final test. Finally, you will compete against other teams in a one-minute challenge to see whose creation can pick up the most objects and earn the highest score. This activity will test your creativity, problem-solving, and teamwork skills as you bring your engineering ideas to life.
Available 10 a.m.–Noon and 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: Society of Women Engineers
Home Page - Kansas City
In this hands-on challenge, you will become roller coaster engineers for a day. Using a set budget and everyday materials, you will design and construct a functional roller coaster that a marble can successfully navigate. Your design must include at least one turn and ensure the marble stays on the track for the entire ride before coming to a complete stop. This activity will test your understanding of physics principles like conservation of energy and structural stability. Finally, you will compete for points based on successful runs, additional turns, and total travel distance to see whose coaster reigns supreme.
Available 10 a.m.–Noon and 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: JCCC Dept of CSIS
Computer Information Systems | Johnson County Community College Catalog
Welcome to the Digital Pet Adoption Center! You will be given a small booklet where you can fill out details about your Digital Pet using coordinates, binary, color codes, and even encoding your pet name. Once you're done, your pet will be added into the Digital Garden with everyone else's, you'll be able to take home your booklet, and you may get a sweet surprise from your new friend!
Available 10 a.m.–Noon and 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: JCCC Department of National Academy of Railroad Science
NARS – National Academy of Railroad Sciences
Do you love to learn about how things are made? Join this fun, quick and edible activity as you learn about blueprints, welding symbols and inspections.
Using blueprint instructions, participants will use graham crackers and icing to learn the concept of welding, including the various techniques and the meaning behind instructional symbols. Apply a weld using cupcake icing and inspect the size of your weld… When finished, snack on your hard work!
Art Activities
Available 10 a.m.-Noon
Hosted by: The Kids Creative Space
The Kids Creative Space
We’re bringing a hands-on, joy-filled experience designed for children and families to explore creativity together. Guests can tinker in our musical FamJam instrument baskets, roll a giant ball, dance with colorful scarves, and twirl with hula hoops. They can also dive into squishing and sculpting playdough creations.
Throughout the event, families will be invited to add pieces of fabric to a collaborative community weaving project, contributing to a shared work of art. It’s an invitation to make, move, connect, and celebrate the magic of creating side by side.
Available 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: Ko Martial Arts
Ko Martial Arts in Overland Park Olathe Prairie Village
This instructor-led session introduces students to the fundamentals of martial arts in a structured and engaging environment. Participants will learn basic stances, simple kicking and striking techniques, and partner drills designed to improve focus, coordination, and confidence. Our instructors guide students through a series of activities that combine movement, discipline, and teamwork. The goal is to give students a positive first experience with martial arts while showing how training can help build resilience, respect, and self-control.
Available 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by JCCC's Floral Design Club
Floral Design Certificate | Johnson County Community College
Create your own colorful flower masterpiece as you mix, match, and arrange beautiful blooms, turning petals and leaves into a stunning work of art you can proudly show off!
In this hands-on floral design activity, kids will learn how to create colorful tissue paper flowers by folding, layering, and fluffing paper into beautiful handmade blooms. After crafting their own flowers, they’ll explore the art of bouquet design using a variety of faux flowers in different colors, sizes, and textures. Children will discover simple design principles like balance, height variation, and color coordination as they arrange their bouquets like real florists.
Available 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: Tiger Rock Martial Arts
Tiger-Rock Martial Arts Training Academies in Kansas City
Discover how motion lines and sports science can help you move smarter, faster, and stronger in any sport you play.
We will go over standard lines of motion, straight line, curved line, and movements that combine them. This will be done by punching and kicking through paper and then eventually boards to test how well we can learn to move our bodies efficiently. Understanding and discussing the science of movement explains why the best athletes don't always have to be the biggest, fastest, and strongest. Sometimes you can be the best by being smarter than others!
Available 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: Pave Creative
Pave Creative: Music, Arts & Theatre
Get ready to wiggle, twirl, and groove as you explore exciting ways to move to music through a hands-on instrument petting zoo and an energetic dance party. Discover new movements, build confidence, and experience how being musically active can be both healthy and incredibly fun!
Available 10 a.m.–Noon and 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: Bach to Rock Music School
Bach to Rock Leawood
Join Bach to Rock as they introduce students to beat making, DJ’ing, and music production through the use of engaging music technology! Through hands-on activities with percussion instruments, interactive movement exercises, and playful tempo-based characters, students explore rhythm and creativity while building foundational musical skills and confidence.
Available 10 a.m.–Noon and 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: JOCO Master Gardeners Club
Extension Master Gardeners
In this exciting hands-on session, you’ll discover how to create a garden that welcomes important pollinator friends like buzzing bees and fluttering butterflies. Learn which plants and flowers attract these helpful visitors, why pollinators play such an important role in our environment, and how small gardens can make a big difference.
You’ll also explore fun and creative garden design ideas—thinking about colors, shapes, and plant placement—to build a space that is both beautiful and beneficial for pollinators. To bring your ideas to life, you’ll plant your own seeds to take home and care for, beginning your very own bright, blooming pollinator garden!
Available 10 a.m.–Noon and 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: PAVE Creative
Pave Creative: Music, Arts & Theatre
Put on your dancing shoes, learn some awesome new moves, then perform your very own routine to show off your style, sparkle, and superstar confidence
This two-part activity allows kids to learn some basic dance moves, put them together, add a touch of their own flair and then perform their dance in front of an audience!
Performance opportunities will take place every half-hour in MTC Room 211.
Available 10 a.m.–Noon and 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: The National Museum of Toys & Miniatures
Toy and Miniature Museum | The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures
The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures has the world's largest fine-scale miniature collection. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about the Museum's miniature art museum currently on display at the museum’s downtown location and create tiny masterpieces using stamps.
Available 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: JCCC's Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
If you could build your own art museum, what would you fill it with? Walk around to explore the many sculptures on campus that make JCCC one of the top 10 campuses for public art in the nation! A temporary installation on the Regnier Center lawn highlights an important part of Kansas history. Fold up a miniature paper museum and have the opportunity to add your own sculpture to the lawn of your mini-museum!
Available 10 a.m.–Noon and 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: School of Rock Blue Valley
School of Rock Blue Valley | About Our Music School
Unleash your inner rockstar in this hands-on music experience! Students will rotate through two engaging music stations. First, they’ll listen to popular songs and learn to identify the instruments they hear. Next, they’ll choose an instrument to try, learn the basics, and then put their new skills into action by jamming with a band and playing along to a classic rock hit in concert!
Performance opportunities will take place every half-hour in MTC Room 211.
Math Activities
Available 10 a.m.-Noon
Hosted by: Noetic Learning
Noetic Learning Math - Creative Math for Creative Minds
In this interactive math challenge, students rotate through puzzle and game stations, solving problems to earn spots on a tic-tac-toe board and race to complete three in a row! Each station offers levels of challenge ranging from easy to challenging. This activity is perfect for all ages, and all tic-tac-toes earn a prize!
Available 10 a.m.–Noon and 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: JCCC's Department of Mathematics
Mathematics | Johnson County Community College
Step into a vibrant room where passionate JCCC math educators guide young minds in discovering the beauty of mathematics.
Stations will include several activities about tessellations, which are a kind of mathematical art that uses repeating patterns. There will also be a station with the game called Tower of Hanoi, which involves moving objects from one tower to another using mathematical patterns and relationships. Participants can take their artwork and a tessellating shape home with them. There will be opportunities to discover the math involved, or just relax and have fun creating art!
Available 10 a.m.–Noon and 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: JCCC's Department of WDCE-SBDC-APEX Accelerator
The Kansas Small Business Development Center | Johnson County Community College
In this high-stakes mystery-box game, kids will learn what it takes to call the shots as a business leader and see if they can walk away the ultimate boss!
Step right up to our Deal or No Deal Challenge! Pick your mystery case, meet the live host, and face off with the sneaky “banker” as you decide… Deal or No Deal?! You’ll play fast-paced rounds packed with surprises while using math, strategy, and smart decision-making to outthink the banker. Will you take the safe offer or risk it for something bigger? It’s all about probability, negotiation, and having the courage to make bold choices!
Available 10 a.m.–Noon and 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Hosted by: Rockhurst University's Mathapalooza
Mathapalooza | Mathematics outreach for all ages
Mathapalooza’s Big Math Party is a family-friendly celebration of hands-on learning where everyone is welcome to experience the joy of mathematics together. This math party invites children, teens, and adults to explore, build, test ideas, solve puzzles, and create mathematical art through a variety of playful activity stations. Whether you come with your family, a friend, or on your own, you will find engaging experiences that spark curiosity and make mathematical thinking feel creative, social, and fun.
At our math party, families can work side-by-side, make their own creations, and celebrate discovery moments together. You will have opportunities to explore tiling patterns, take on a variety of building challenges, learn new mathematical games, and join a giant polyhedra construction that grows through collaboration. You will also be able to make your own mathematical lamps by folding and decorating, create large-scale designs by joining paths on a hexagonal grid, and solve a Jumping Number Maze!
For Girl Scouts:
Remake Learning Days will provide the opportunity for Girl Scouts to earn badges at the Daisy, Brownie and Junior levels. These will be the *FREE badges Girl Scouts will be able to earn at the festival this year:
- Daisy
- STEM Explorer
- Body Positivity: Fun with Movement
- Environmental Stewardship: Eco Learner
- Brownie
- STEM Explorer
- Performance: Dancer
- Environmental Stewardship: Eco Friend
- Junior
- STEM Explorer
- Performance: Musician
- Do It Yourself: Gardener
** All badges (with exception to the Junior level “Do It Yourself: Gardener” badge), can be earned by attending either the AM or PM activity sessions.
** The Junior Level Do It Yourself Gardener Badge requires participation in both AM and PM activities.
** Some badges earned in the afternoon require attendance at the Joey FineRhyme performance from 3-4 p.m.
**Free badges available while supplies last.
Closing Act: Joey FineRhyme
'Remaking Earth' will take place in Yardley Hall at 3 p.m.
Joey FineRhyme closes Remake Learning Days with a vibrant fusion of rhythm, wordplay, and audience connection that brings science and sustainability to life through Raptivism (activism through original rap music). The performance will include pedal powered sound, with audience members riding stationary bikes that generate electricity to power speakers on-stage. This STEAM based production blends climate, energy, waste and eco-solutions with written and freestyle rap, leaving participants with a hopeful message and tangible ways to take action.
Need more info?
Questions? Contact Sarah Armbrecht, Early College Events Coordinator, at [email protected] or 913-469-8500, ext. 3167.
Hosted by JCCC Early College Partnerships & Outreach