Introducing: The Clubhouse Caller

Hi Families —

This is the Clubhouse Caller: a short, occasional note about what's happening at the steamHouse. Get this news in your inbox by signing up for one of this blog’s newsletters: Clubhouse Caller (formerly Kiddo Update), Robot Report, DI Digest, or Snake Notes.

Here's the fall.

This is the last FIRST LEGO League season. Ever. FIRST is retiring the LEGO League format after this year, which makes the Goatrunners' BIOGLOW season a genuine last-of-its-kind. The challenge dropped August 4; our Kickoff is Sunday, August 23 at the clubhouse. The team is open to kids in grades 4–7. If your kid wants in on the final season, now is the moment — details and signup are on the team page (link below).

Destination Imagination is new this year. Our first DI team — creative problem-solving built around storytelling, performance, and building things that shouldn't work but do. Practices run on Saturdays (so no conflict with robotics Sundays) in October and November…then Sundays December-March, grades 4–7, with the season stretching from fall into spring tournaments. If FLL was never quite your kid's shape, this might be. Team page below.

Circle October 23: the Gourd Gala. The Club's biggest open-doors evening of the year — pumpkins, food, and the whole community at one time. Open to all families; bring a friend household. Details will come in the event email closer in.

In 2026 we paused many of our activities. The steamHouse Team has been building out the Commons, and larger steamHouse landscape. In 2027, we’ll come back to speed better than ever!