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Challenge Island Palm Beach offers onsite field trips, afterschool enrichment, summer camps, family engagement programs, book series field trips, Slimetopia STEAM Camp, Girl Scout badge and journey workshops, birthday parties, and Family STEAM Night events. Its onsite field trips are standard-aligned, cross-curricular K–12 field trips, and its afterschool enrichment and summer camps are described as award winning. All after-school classes, camps, and family nights are screen free, with no screens or digital devices used.
• Ages: 4–13 years old
Challenge Island Palm Beach is led by Caleigh Smith, owner of Challenge Island Palm Beach. Challenge Island programs are described as the World's #1 STEM/STEAM Program and World's #1 STEAM Program, and Challenge Island, a STEAM education franchise leader, ranks on Entrepreneur Magazine’s Franchise 500 for the ninth year in a row. Challenge Island is found in 20,000 schools and organizations and shares Challenge Island adventures with PK, elementary, and middle school students throughout Palm Beach County. Its programs use STEAM Teams that engage in collaborative, inquiry-based, student-driven learning grounded in real world connections and meaningful problem-solving, with a whimsical island ambience combined with cross-curricular themes. Multi-generational family engagement and parental involvement events turn families into STEAM Teams, and Girl Scout workshops come with a Challenge Island Fun Patch for every girl. Slimetopia STEAM Camp is described as where slime and STEAM activate.
Parent, educator, and media feedback about Challenge Island includes comments that getting a spot in Challenge Island afterschool classes is harder than getting tickets to Taylor Swift, and that onsite field trips are described as fun, challenging, engaging, and brilliant to watch. Entrepreneur Magazine notes that there are no screens or digital devices in Challenge Island after-school classes, camps, or family nights, and that kids work together in STEAM Teams using imagination, teamwork, and problem-solving skills with low-tech supplies. School and community partners describe students working together to create STEAM projects, overcoming obstacles, and practicing problem-solving skills, and they note elements such as colored teams, matching bandanas, face paint, and fully prepared instructors. Other partners report that Parent Engagement STEAM Night and Family STEAM Night events are hands-on for parents and students, and that campers look forward to Challenge Island challenges during camps.
Last updated February 13, 2026.
• Ages: 4–13 years old
Challenge Island Palm Beach is led by Caleigh Smith, owner of Challenge Island Palm Beach. Challenge Island programs are described as the World's #1 STEM/STEAM Program and World's #1 STEAM Program, and Challenge Island, a STEAM education franchise leader, ranks on Entrepreneur Magazine’s Franchise 500 for the ninth year in a row. Challenge Island is found in 20,000 schools and organizations and shares Challenge Island adventures with PK, elementary, and middle school students throughout Palm Beach County. Its programs use STEAM Teams that engage in collaborative, inquiry-based, student-driven learning grounded in real world connections and meaningful problem-solving, with a whimsical island ambience combined with cross-curricular themes. Multi-generational family engagement and parental involvement events turn families into STEAM Teams, and Girl Scout workshops come with a Challenge Island Fun Patch for every girl. Slimetopia STEAM Camp is described as where slime and STEAM activate.
Parent, educator, and media feedback about Challenge Island includes comments that getting a spot in Challenge Island afterschool classes is harder than getting tickets to Taylor Swift, and that onsite field trips are described as fun, challenging, engaging, and brilliant to watch. Entrepreneur Magazine notes that there are no screens or digital devices in Challenge Island after-school classes, camps, or family nights, and that kids work together in STEAM Teams using imagination, teamwork, and problem-solving skills with low-tech supplies. School and community partners describe students working together to create STEAM projects, overcoming obstacles, and practicing problem-solving skills, and they note elements such as colored teams, matching bandanas, face paint, and fully prepared instructors. Other partners report that Parent Engagement STEAM Night and Family STEAM Night events are hands-on for parents and students, and that campers look forward to Challenge Island challenges during camps.
Last updated February 13, 2026.
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