STEAM Squad!, 2nd ed.

Title: STEAM Squad!, 2nd ed.
Subtitle: STEAM - Ages 8+
Release Date: 04/15/25
Type: Launchpad Pack
Brand: FarFaria,Highlights
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade

Launchpad Description: Kids will unleash their inner inventors while developing a passion for innovation, strengthening critical thinking skills, and gaining a basic understanding of engineering.


This Launchpad contains the following apps:

Bridge Constructor Winter World (app)
Build a bridge with different materials, stay within budget, and then put it to the test by allowing vehicles to drive across! Practice mulitple skills of engineering, construction, creativity, and physics.

Dig 4 Dino (App)
A fast-paced, exploration runner game. Dig deep into five sediment layers of the Earth avoiding hazards and enemies all while in search of dinosaur fossils to populate your museum. Inspect the fossils to learn interesting Dino Facts and collect Relics to learn even more! Collect coins from duplicate fossils in order to upgrade your digging equipment to extend the duration and effectiveness of your dig. Features: - Fast Paced Gameplay - Customizable Characters - 20+ Fossils to Collect - Four Dinosaurs to Complete - Three Unique Power-Ups - Five Archaic Relic's

Gravity Captain (App)
Fly your spacecraft using your thrusters and the gravity from planets to help slingshot you to get to the next planet. Pick up the extra fuel from around planets when needed but avoid crashing into them. What is the furthest planet you can reach! + Use gravity to slingshot around planets + Fly spacecraft with thrusters + Pickup extra fuel + Avoid crashing into planets + Randomized for replayability + Endless gameplay + Simple controls

Make It: Catapult (App)
Fun easy to make crafts, recipes, experiments, and skits all made by Highlights kids!

Make It: Newspaper Skyscraper (App)
Fun easy to make crafts, recipes, experiments, and skits all made by Highlights kids!

Monster Puzzles (app)
Oh noooo…. Monsters! Try to eliminate them but it won't be a piece of cake. Click on it and it becomes weaker, and at the end it bursts, flying apart while these parts also reach other monsters, weakening them and they finally burst as well. Real chain reaction in action! Play this exciting new monster puzzle game in which you have to eliminate a huge number of monsters by choosing the right targets and setting off a chain reaction that will completely clear the level. • Interesting game mechanics • Spectacular chain reactions • Hints for each level • Colorful HD graphics • Convenient controls

Percent Bingo (App)
Fluency Games is proud to present their newest game, Percent Bingo! Play the classic bingo game that is designed to build fluency and number sense with fractions, percents and decimals. Bingo numbers are given as fractions or decimals and the player converts them to percents before placing on the board. Percent Bingo features adaptive play, and the game introduces more difficulty fractions as the player becomes fluent (faster and more accurate). Percent Bingo also features context sensitive help and hints that also teach conversion between fractions/decimals and percents.

Pipe Collection (app)
This is a classic pipe puzzle game in which you have to connect all the pipes in the right way. This game will delight you with great graphics and a huge variety of levels and puzzles. If you like puzzles and your brain requires constant warm-up then you can't think of a better game. Complete all 250 levels, sorted by difficulty from beginner to expert and prove that there is no better plumber than you. • Stylish HD graphics and special effects • Many different levels • Excellent exercise for brain • Difficulty for everyone • Well thought-out puzzles

Who Am I?: Solar Engineer (App)
Quiz themed videos, presents all the aspects of cool and inspirational jobs. Can you guess the career, before the answer is revealed?

Wright Brothers, The (Farfari) (App)
The Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilber were the first to fly a motor operated plane.