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Ages 6–12 Grade 1 – Grade 6 Mirai Minds + Cambridge Centre (Ichigaya) Rolling enrollment · Start any week

Maker's Lab

Hands-on design and STEM challenges conducted in English. Students investigate a problem, plan an idea, build a prototype, test it and explain how they improved it. Challenges are short, so children can join any week.

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  • Small group Capped at 12, every child takes part.
  • Any day, choose your slot Days and time
  • Monthly enrollment, rolling Term and enrollment
  • Ichigaya Where it runs

What your child will learn

Every term is mapped to clear, confidence-building milestones, in groups small enough that each child is seen.

  1. Design thinking

    Investigating a problem before solving it.

  2. Building & testing

    Turning a plan into a working prototype.

  3. Resilience

    Improving an idea after it fails.

  4. Explaining in English

    Describing how and why their design works.

What does a session look like?

Challenge

The problem to solve and the key words.

0–5 min 5 min

60 min · tap a part to read it

  1. The problem to solve and the key words.

Sample activities

  • Paper Towers

    Build the tallest tower that can hold a book.

  • Catapult Challenge

    Build a catapult and launch a pom-pom at a target.

  • Water Filter Lab

    Design a filter that cleans muddy water.

  • Wind Racers

    Build a sail car and race it with a fan.

Levels

  • Beginner Guided builds with step-by-step support.
  • Intermediate Open challenges, planned and tested in pairs.
  • Advanced Self-directed projects, from their own design to final prototype.
  • Placed by the teacher after the trial lesson.

From here to the first lesson

  1. Choose a date

    Pick a session from the form. It takes about a minute and nothing is charged.

  2. We confirm

    We reply within one business day with your date and a payment link for the trial fee.

  3. Come to a real lesson

    Your child joins the regular group. There is no commitment to carry on afterwards.

Your teacher

Evyn Bryant

Linguistics · English · Second Language Acquisition

I'm from Los Angeles, I used to be in the US Army and was also an Emergency Medical Technician, and I have lived in Japan for 5 years.

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FAQs

Good questions, answered

Students aged 6 to 12 who like to tinker, build and invent.

Any day of the week, at a slot you choose, in Ichigaya.

Yes. Challenges are short, so children can join in any week.

Reserve a place

Enroll in the program, or try a single lesson first. Either way we reply within 1 business day.

1What would you like to do?
2When

This program runs Monday to Sunday at a time you choose. Pick the day you would like to start and we will confirm the slot with you.

3Who is coming

Your confirmation goes here.

Only if we need to reach you about the date.

No payment is taken unless the page says so above. We never share your details.

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