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Jamestown, RI (October 1, 2019) – The Young Scientists Club is thrilled to learn that the new Magic School Bus Rides Again Exploration series has been awarded both the 2019 Product of the Year Award and the 2019 Creative Play of the Year Award. Esther Novis, founder and CEO of The Young Scientists Club, states that these awards are a real validation of their products because Creative Child Magazine’s award program “is unique in that all products submitted are reviewed by moms, educators and early education professionals. Therefore, every product is reviewed by the very people who would purchase them.” This new Magic School Bus: Rides Again Exploration Series includes Exploring Oceans, Exploring Rocks, Crystals, & Minerals, and Exploring Bugs, Insects, and Other Creatures. Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (September, 2019) – The Young Scientists Club has been creating, manufacturing, and selling award-winning science kits for twenty years with a mission to offer children quality, science-related products that will fascinate them with the wonders of scientific discovery and spark their interest in future scientific endeavors. All our products are designed by a team of Harvard graduates, scientists, educators, and parents with one purpose in mind - to combine fun and fascination with quality and learning in each and every product. Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (August, 2019) – The Young Scientists Club is thrilled to share the news that owner and founder Esther Novis will visit the POW Science store in the Wakefield Mall in Wakefield, Rhode Island on Friday, September 27th at 5 pm for a free event that includes meeting the CEO and creator of our awardwinning products as well as hands-on science experiments. This is a great time to learn how products are inspired, created, and launched into the market. For the past 20 years, the mission of The Young Scientists Club has been to offer children quality, science-related products that will fascinate them with the wonders of scientific discovery and spark their interest in future scientific endeavors. As only one of a few small companies in the late 90s offering educational science products to young children, The Young Scientists Club was the only company that created packaging and manuals that were inspiring to both boys and girls. Esther Novis has always been a strong advocate that girls can be as great in the fields of science as boys and to see that twenty years later, more and more girls are following a path into the sciences is truly remarkable and rewarding. Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (August, 2019) – The Young Scientists Club is thrilled to share the news that Susan Northrop Design has garnered two AGDA awards for the packaging design of our new 2019 Magic School Bus Exploring Oceans science kit and for the rebranding of our Magic School Bus: Rides Again 14 kit science series. Susan Northrop Design has been the exclusive packaging and design partner of the Young Scientists Club for the past twenty years and has received multiple awards for its work over the years. Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (July 26, 2019) – Each summer, 68 percent of families take a beach vacation, according to a recent NYU study. Whether families are splashing in the ocean or playing in the sand, it’s obvious that exploring the ocean’s vast treasures is a popular family activity. Now, thanks to a newly-released science kit from The Young Scientists Club, families can take a deeper dive into our world’s ocean life! “The Magic School Bus: Rides Again” science kit, Exploring Oceans, has Ms. Frizzle and her students taking Young Scientists on a wild ride. Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (January 1, 2019) – Along with permission slips, kids might want to have a towel nearby for their next field trip with fictional Ms. Frizzle of Netflix fame. The newest Magic School Bus: Rides Again science kit will be exploring the oceans vast treasures like starfish, shells and sand dollars. Part of the Exploration Series, visitors to The Young Scientists Club’s American International Toy Fair Booth 5735 can be like Jacques Cousteau and dive into Exploring Oceans ($29.99). Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (October 1, 2018) –To celebrate The Magic School Bus: Rides Again, a Netflix original series, The Young Scientists Club has updated its award-winning science kits to reflect Ms. Frizzle’s sister, Fiona Felicity Frizzle, taking over the wheel for wild field trips and fascinating facts. Read more ...

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Bloom Report (vol. xx, edit. 21) – The Young Scientists Club® was started in 1999 when Esther Novis (Harvard '87, A.L.M. '94) searched for good quality kits that would provide hands-on scientific fun combined with a true educational science exposure for her own young children. She found none. The science products that were on the market targeted mostly older children, mainly boys. She considered them more arts & crafts than real science. The frustration of not being able to find quality age-appropriate products led to the genesis of The Young Scientists Club. Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (July 8, 2018) –To celebrate The Magic School Bus: Rides Again, a Netflix original series, The Young Scientists Club has updated its award-winning science kits to reflect Ms. Frizzle’s sister, Fiona Felicity Frizzle, taking over the wheel for wild field trips and fascinating facts. Read more ...

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Bloom Report (vol. xx, edit. 21) – The Young Scientists Club® was started in 1999 when Esther Novis (Harvard '87, A.L.M. '94) searched for good quality kits that would provide hands-on scientific fun combined with a true educational science exposure for her own young children. She found none. The science products that were on the market targeted mostly older children, mainly boys. She considered them more arts & crafts than real science. The frustration of not being able to find quality age-appropriate products led to the genesis of The Young Scientists Club. Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (May 2, 2018) – The Young Scientists Club has won the 2018 Reader Award for the Science Kits and Supplies category from Practical Homeschooling. The recognition was for the company’s Monthly Subscription kits, delivered right to your door! There are 36 themed kits, ranging from Phases of Matter, Circuits and Electromagnets to Stars and Surface Tension.

The organization said of the award, "Thousands of homeschoolers have cast their votes. A Practical Homeschooling Reader Award is the highest honor the homeschool community can bestow. The winners are the products that receive the highest ratings from satisfied users." Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (January 2, 2018) – Get your permission slips, kids, because a new year of Magic School Bus adventures is now on Netflix. To celebrate The Magic School Bus: Rides Again, a Netflix original series, The Young Scientists Club updates its award-winning science kits to reflect Ms. Frizzle’s sister, Fiona Felicity Frizzle, taking over the wheel for wild field trips and fascinating facts. Look for what’s new with The Magic School Bus; Rides Again themed kits at their American International Toy Fair Booth 5735. Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (September 19, 2017) – The Young Scientists Club, which has been developing science kits and games for Scholastic’s Magic School Bus brand for the past 10 years, is pleased to announced it has signed a new agreement to develop new science products for the line starting in 2018. The new products will feature new packaging in line with the new Netflix series for the Magic School Bus Rides Again TV Show, which launches at the end of September 2017. Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (June 17, 2017) – Award-winning toy maker The Young Scientists Club is used to getting praise for their left-brain focused kits. But this season, as they celebrate 18 years of getting kids excited about math, science and robotics, they surprised themselves with the industry praise for Funtastic Robots ($29.99), their newest DIY kits. Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (June 8, 2017) – Ask a group of kids, who wants to learn about math and science? You might get one or two to raise their hands. But ask a group of scouts or after-school youngsters, who wants to make a volcano? Get slimed? Create lightening sparks? We bet every kid stops and comes to attention. That’s the concept behind The Young Scientists Club school/group packs. Each intriguing topic is packaged in 10 complete kits that can nurture up to 30 children at a time. Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (November 15, 2016) – If robots had thumbs, they would point two in the “up” direction to welcome Infra, Metali, Hurdle and Sunny, the 2017 Funtastic Robots ($29.99) from The Young Scientists Club. The Young Scientists Club is known (and beloved) for introducing kids to the fascinating world of science. In 2017 it pivots to engineering and robotics with four build-your-own kits that are not just fun but funtastic! Make one or two yourself when visiting their American International Toy Fair Booth 5804. Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (July 18, 2016) – The Young Scientists Club believes skeletons should hang from a suction cup in a prominent spot and never in a closet! That’s the attraction of their newest Magic School Bus kit, Human Body Lab ($39.99). The 17” skeleton that kids get to assemble is the centerpiece of this fascinating kit that introduces basic concepts of anatomy. The judges at Oppenheim Toy Portfolio practically yelled wahoo! (as Magic School Bus’ Ms. Frizzle always blurts out) when they completed their skeleton task. They awarded this science kit for youngsters a Gold Seal Award 2016 for Early School and Tweens. Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (May 31, 2016) – Specialty retailers will be casting their vote in June for a different kind of election --- choosing the 2016 ASTRA Best Toys For Kids. One of the finalists on this year’s ballot is a kit from industry favorite, The Young Scientists Club. Retailers can stop by their ASTRA Marketplace Booth 318 and discover Science-Art Fusion Space ($19.99). The kit stretches the studies of STEM to STEAM with a sprinkling of art projects about space. Youngsters who make gravity art or construct a space rocket – it’s all in the kit -- absorb basic scientific concepts and begin a lifelong love for science exploration. Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (May 13, 2016) – Everything really is rainbows and lollipops (aka rock candy crystals) when The Young Scientists Club kits are opened and explored. There is SO much for kids to discover that the perennial Creative Child Magazine awarded them a whopping eight honors for its newest science kits. The Science/Art Fusion Series -- with themes like bubbles, crystals, explosions and yes, rainbows -- wowed the judges. The result was not one but double honors: Creative Child 2016 Toy Of The Year and Creative Child 2016 Creative Play Of The Year Awards. Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (April 27, 2016) – Typically when a mom or dad needs some guidance, they ask … another mom or dad because Fathers know best, as do Mothers! That handed-down wisdom is the premise behind The National Parenting Center. They just released their 2016 Spring Seal of Approval awards and its no surprise The Young Scientists Club has won, again. This season it’s kudos for its six intriguing Science-Art Fusion Series themed kits ($19.99). Now kids can have their science and display it too! Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (November 18, 2015) – Would you consider innovators Leonardo daVinci and Steve Jobs to be scientists or artists? It’s a debate in which you just can’t pick one field. These two thinkers embraced all the principles of STEM but added the beauty of art, now known in education circles as STEAM. The Young Scientists Club leaps into 2016 with this fusion of fields and launches a gallery of six new kits at their Booth 5618 at The American International Toy Fair. Be inspired to create an explosion or a rainbow with one of their Science-Art Fusion Series six themed kits ($19.99). Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (November 18, 2015) – Do phrases like dilating pupils and night-vision flashlight make you think of a doctor or an astronaut? These are actually two experiments scientists as young as 5 will discover in the upcoming batch of 2016 Magic School Bus™ lab kits created by The Young Scientists Club. Be the first to open the yellow bus-shaped boxes at their Booth 5618 at The American International Toy Fair. Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (October 16, 2015) – Any of this year’s products from The Young Scientists Club -- such as The Magic School Bus Science Explosion game ($29.99) – will make a perfect present for a boy or girl. The proof is not in the pudding but in the words of four prestigious panels that judge toys. Parents’ Choice, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, Creative Child and Mr. Dad have observed and concluded that these kits are not only fun but “wahoo” as Magic School Bus’ Ms. Frizzle says. Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (September 12, 2015) – Not surprising, STEM learning has been elevated to hands-on fun beyond the Monday to Friday classroom. That’s because Scout leaders and after-school activity planners have been inviting Celsius The Science Bug, the captivating mascot of The Young Scientists Club, to woo kids to grow crystals or create a tornado in a bottle. Their popular Group/School packs are perfect for up to 30 children in grades K-6. The wide-eyed expressions on their faces tells the whole story that science is exhilarating! Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (August 10, 2015) – Back to school season means reading, writing and ‘rithmetic. Parents know these are all necessary subjects but kids want a little fun. That’s where science comes in! The Young Scientists Club, with an emphasis on young, advocates clearing the kitchen table to make way for some scientific fun. An introduction to science for tots ages 5 and up should be fascinating, amusing and fearless. The love of science can begin before their first tooth falls out! New this season is The Magic School Bus Science Explosion ($29.99). Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (May 7, 2015) – Introducing children as young as 5 to the fascinating world of science is as close as the kitchen cupboard. Everyday items like salt and sugar and baking soda become ingredients for thought-provoking science experiments. The Young Scientists Club, makers of entertaining, informative kits, suggests crystallizing a lifelong love with science with their newest offering, The Magic School Bus™ Growing Crazy Crystals ($19.99). Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (February 22, 2015) – Now you see it, now you don't. The science behind magic, water and crystals is the focus of The Young Scientists Club's 16th season of whimsical lessons in science, math and even engineering. With the help of Scholastic's Clifford The Big Red Dog®, kids are eager to discover basic science principles as they graduate from preschool to kindergarten. Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (November 21, 2014) – Now you see it, now you don't. The science behind magic, water and crystals is the focus of The Young Scientists Club's 16th season of whimsical lessons in science, math and even engineering. With the help of the popular Scholastic franchises, Clifford The Big Red Dog® and The Magic School Bus®, kids are eager to discover basic science principles as they graduate from preschool to elementary classes. In 2015 a new board game, Science Explosion ($29.99), Young Scientists learn all about the different fields of sciences by playing two exciting games. The games end with a volcanic eruption! See the four new kits at Booth 5223 at the North American International Toy Fair®. Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (October 28, 2014) – Who offers an educational adventure that lasts a lifetime? Since 1999, The Young Scientists Club has enthused children with unlimited possibilities, parents with age appropriate (and fun!) learning tools and toy industry judges with phenomenal products that empower children to explore and wonder. Those efforts have been awarded time and time again and The Young Scientists Club’s latest Math and Science-based offerings are no different. The Magic School Bus Engineering Lab is one of only 24 toys to receive the Scholastic Parent & Child® Magazine Gold Star Toy Award. The Engineering Lab will be featured in the holiday gift guide in the November issue of the magazine and online at www.scholastic.com/goldstarwinners.Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (June 6, 2014) – Children are naturally curious about the world around them and how it works, but often lose interest as they grow up. Stimulating a curiosity in STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Math - at a young age can make sure the world of the future is filled with little Elon Musks, ready to build the next Tesla or perfect the colony plans for Mars. But how do you spark that innate curiosity in kids as young as 3 and make sure it lasts long after Christmas? With a Clifford the Big Red Dog science kit subscription, of course! Read more ...

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Jamestown, RI (June 6, 2014) – Every year The Young Scientists Club rolls out amazing new science experiment kits that get tykes as young as 3 years intrigued by science, technology, engineering and math -- known collectively as S.T.E.M. And every year judges from the toy industry are impressed with the clever kits that have kids doing kitchen table experiments from math explosions to electrical engineering! This summer an impressive eight honors -- including two Product of the Year nods-- have been awarded by Oppenheim Toy Portfolio and Creative Child magazine to The Young Scientists Club's four new ensembles.

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Jamestown, RI (November 21, 2013) – Quick, name three things that start with the letter "M" that kids like. How about magnets and marshmallows? And of course, math. Yes, arithmetic! Kids are discovering that adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing are really fun when they involve an erupting volcano! That kind of out-of-the-box thinking is what has made The Young Scientists Club so successful. The company that started in 1998 with phenomenal products that empower children to explore science has factored in math with their newest product, The Magic School Bus Math Explosion ($29.99). Visitors to their Toy Fair Booth 5222 will be the first see "lava" flow as they review their own math skills!

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Jamestown, RI (November 21, 2013) – Who offers an educational adventure that lasts a lifetime? Since 1999, The Young Scientists Club has enthused children with unlimited possibilities, parents with age appropriate (and fun!) learning tools and toy industry judges with phenomenal products that empower children to explore and wonder. To celebrate its 15th anniversary (1999-2014) the "Club" is adding something new -- math and engineering themed kits! After all, S.T.E.M. education is the new buzz word in schools for even the youngest learners. Look for four new kits featuring The Magic School Bus and Clifford at the American International Toy Fair Booth 5222.

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Jamestown, RI (May 22, 2013) – The Young Scientists Club is all about the exploration of new concepts and new things to ponder. When Parents' Choice Foundation Spring 2013 Award judges needed to explore the best new toys on the market, it was no surprise that they discovered the "wow" factor again and again with science kits designed for ages 3 and up.

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Jamestown, RI (May 2, 2013) – In judging circles, two thumbs up is as good as it gets but when it comes to Tillywig Toy Awards, anything can happen so its's not surprising that the Young Scientists Club was just given three paws up! With a new license from The Big Red Dog®, the science adventure company launched its Clifford series of bubble, rainbow, and kitchen experiment kits earlier this year. Tillywig's Spring 2013 Brain Child Award recognized all three Clifford kits.

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Jamestown, RI (January 4, 2013) – Toy buyers and retailers may be surprised to learn that although you can't teach an old dog new tricks, a big red dog will be teaching science "tricks" to youngsters in 2013. The Young Scientists Club has enlisted -- through a new licensing agreement -- a beloved literary character, Clifford, to guide kids to discover bubbles, rainbows and experiments by the kitchen sink in three new kits! Perennial favorite The Magic School Bus returns in the form of two new science toys with a focus on weather and nature. Visitors to The Young Scientists Club's Booth 5508 at the American International Toy Fair will get the first peek at these five fabulous kits that get kids as young as three excited about the world around them.

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Jamestown, RI (October 23, 2012) – Who knew that slime, goop and glue were educational? They are when you create them in easy-to-follow science experiments. Leave it to Ms. Frizzle of The Magic School Bus world and the folks behind The Young Scientists Club to create a self-contained science lab that wows parents, students and toy industry judges with gooey substances. The prestigious (and hard-to-win) Parents' Choice Foundation Fall 2012 competition praised The Young Scientists Club beautifully crafted The Magic School Bus Slime and Polymer Lab with a coveted Gold Award.

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Jamestown, RI (October 12, 2012) – If you live near families with young children, your doorbell rings with eager youngsters selling coupon books, raffle tickets, gift wrap, candles and lots of things that you really don't want, but, it's for a good cause. This season, smart fundraising chairpersons will offer something to really get excited about purchasing: slime, goop and magnets! It's all part of The Young Scientists Club new initiative to give science kits for the holidays while giving back 20% cash to a worthy organization.

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Jamestown, RI (June 8, 2012) – If you are a young scientist, discovering "proof" that something really works is amazing! If you are a parent of The Young Scientists Club fan, proof that these kits are incredible gets proved every year by such prestigious competitions as the 2012 Creative Child Awards. They just bestowed their trifecta of accolades -- Kids Product of the Year, Toy of the Year and Preferred Choice of the Year to all three new The Magic School Bus™ kits, where kids get to handle polymers, magnets and slime. Want more proof? The big guys from this year's Father's Day 2012 Mr. Dad Seal of Approval and GreatDad Recommends awarded two top honors to The Magic School Bus™ -- in its Elementary School category -- after getting slimed and testing three delivered-monthly-to-home Science Club kits.

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Jamestown, RI (February 12, 2012)–If you find yourself with metal in your pockets at this year's American International Toy Fair in New York City, then don't be surprised when you get sucked into Booth 5214. What's the attraction? Well, besides their personal magnetism, the scientists at The Young Scientists Club will be showing some new Magic School Bus science kits, including "Attracted to Magnificent Magnets."

View PDF The Magic School Bus™ Science Club Delivers Kits Directly to Children’s Homes
Jamestown, RI (January 5, 2012)–Any child who’s enjoyed the brilliant, entertaining and wacky Ms. Frizzle take her students on magical scientific bus rides wishes they could get picked up by her every morning. It’s no wonder, really. Ms. Frizzle and her fictional students have been exciting kids’ imaginations and curiosity by showing how incredibly fun science can be for 25 years.

View PDF All Five of the Company’s New 2011 Products Named Creative Child Winners
Jamestown, RI (June 15, 2011) –The Young Scientists Club is batting a thousand this year with Creative Child. For any non-baseball fans out there, that means that every single one of the company’s new products was a hit with the judges, which is saying a lot.

View PDF See What’s New At The Young Scientists Club Toy Fair Booth 5233- Including The Introduction Of A New Lab Series And Appearances By The Beloved Ms. Frizzle!
Jamestown, RI (February 13, 2011) – In 2011, the kids will cheer as The Young Scientists Club rolls out its newest science kits to explore and experiment with volcanoes, electricity, chemistry, and microscopes while taking an imaginary ride with Ms. Frizzle on board The Magic School Bus. Visitors to the American International Toy Fair Booth 5233 can peek inside four new Magic School Bus science kits from the award-winning toymaker.

View PDF The Young Scientists Club’s “Science on a Tracking Expedition Kit” Keeps Kids On Track With Nature
Jamestown, RI (October 7, 2010) – In a report just intercepted from the MythNet (a secret network used by myths and legends), Santa Claus has relocated his workshop to a new undisclosed location. The apparent reason for this surprise action was that a 7-year old child, using the brand new, award-winning Science on a Tracking Expedition kit from the Young Scientists Club to track a flying reindeer, stumbled on the original secret workshop location by mistake.

View PDF Magic School Bus Solar Energy To The Rescue' Kit Wows Industry Judges
Jamestown, RI (July 7, 2010) – When The Beatles sang 'Here Comes The Sun' they scored a No. 1 record. John Denver rode to the top of the charts with 'Sunshine On My Shoulders.' There's something about solar energy that makes everyone a winner. The Young Scientists Club entered their sunshine-y kit on solar energy, and naturally, they won a spot from Parents' Choice Foundation's ultra competitive Spring 2010 Awards. Their Magic School Bus Solar Energy To The Rescue science kit earned a Parents' Choice Recommended Seal.

View PDF The Young Scientists Club Receives Creative Child's 2010 Toy Of The Year Award
Jamestown, RI (July 7, 2010) – When it comes to our children's development the "nature vs. nurture" question looms as large as the biology's, "chicken before the egg," question. But for The Young Scientists Club, the important thing is to have smart, imaginative children who question the world around them. And because of how creatively the company’s science kits use nature to nurture, Creative Child has awarded its 2010 Toy of the Year Award for Educational Science Kits, to Science on a Tracking Expedition. This marks the second consecutive year that The Young Scientist's Club has taken away the top honor for one of its kits.

View PDF The Young Scientists Club’s Science Kits Receive Three Mr. Dad and Great Dad 2009-2010 Holiday Seals of Approval
Jamestown, RI (February 14, 2010) – Ever wonder what the mothers of little Albert Einstein [future Nobel Prize winner] or little Valerie Frizzle [future Magic School Bus teacher with the moniker Ms. Frizzle] gave to their brainy kids to satisfy their growing curiosity beyond their school lessons? They would have craved the award-winning collection of science kits created for budding (dare we say) Einsteins. The Young Scientists Club is delighted to announce its newest releases for 2010 with solar energy, animal tracking, and dinosaurs as themes.