Our Story
Why We’re Out to Change How Kids Play!
WHY MELON SEEDS
Melon Seeds began in my years interacting with and educating my five children. Three of them are out of the house; two are still at home in the early and middle grades. My kids are all intelligent. They thrive in creativity and academics. They like mental puzzles and challenging ideas. But they also don’t like to sit around. They are, like most kids, active learners.
As a family, we have spent many years exploring children’s museums and science museums across the country and overseas. Often our trips were built around museums, nature centers, or National Parks. My children like to play, and they always settle into the exhibits that allow them to create and design. They are the type that early on excelled more in mathematics than in athletics. But again, they didn’t like to just sit around. So we went places.
Then, one time before a museum visit, my son said to me, “Mom, if we just had that huge set of K’NEX (like at the museum), I wouldn’t ever want to go anywhere.”
FOR NOW
I have always dreamed of creating (and staying at) an interactive science exploratory campground, with large sets of fun STEM games built right into the outdoors. But until then, I started this company to provide that extensive ‘museum’ experience for kids of all ages who want to think critically and build creativity into their own designs as they play.
Melon Seeds is my hope to provide more people, young and old, a fun interactive experience while growing or keeping their minds sharp!
Kaaren St. George – founder of Melon Seeds
OUR MISSION
Melon Seeds is an event rental company providing FUN large-scale opportunities in engineering, design, physics, and mechanics.
It fills the gap we see between sports and sedentary, structured, or even screen-based intellectual ‘activities’.
WHY CAN’T WE MOVE AROUND and CREATE?
Many kids are craving physical activity, but their gifts lie in the areas of STEM.
Melon Seeds wants to provide these opportunities.
The NAEYC addresses the importance of STEM learning from a young age in “More Than a Foundation: Young Children Are Capable STEM Learners.”* @https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs/yc/nov2017/STEM-learners
