The Texas Mobile STEM Labs comprise nine dedicated mobile labs that reach more to 75,000 students across every region of Texas each year. Onboard these labs, K-8 students solve engineering design challenges. Students work cooperatively to design a product or process using model STEM activities developed by Learning Undefeated, with support from the Texas Education Agency (TEA).
About Learning Undefeated’s Texas Mobile STEM Labs:
Visits come at no cost to schools thanks to funding from the Texas state legislature.
Serving students from kindergarten to eighth grade.
Each is a 560 square foot expandable pod! (That’s about the size of a studio apartment!)
Each serves up to 24 students at a time.(Over the course of a single school day, that can be over a hundred students!)
9 of these labs service all 20 Texas Education Regions, reaching 270 schools each year.
The Engineering Design Curriculum available aboard the labs includes sixteen 60-minute activities. Each focuses on defining a problem; identifying criteria and constraints; designing, building, and testing; and evaluation and iteration.
This curriculum integrates content knowledge aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS).
Our curriculum blends classic storybook topics, like Jack & the Beanstalk, with an engineering design challenge to make activities both fun and relatable to kids.
Who can be an engineer? ANYONE! Our classes start and end with confidence-building messages so kids know that there’s a place for them in STEM careers.
Our fleet of nine mobile labs includes futuristic expandable pods as well as trailers, for flexibility in all types of school parking lots.
This program serves grades K-8, with more than a dozen TEKS-aligned activities for all disciplines.
Inside the lab, students engage in hands-on engineering design challenges where they built, iterate, test, and try again — just like engineers do every day in the real world!
Inclusivity is the name of the game, all of our materials are available in both English and Spanish (including our graphic design on the walls of the lab).
Double trouble! Two Texas Mobile STEM Labs packed and ready for transport under a gorgeous sunny sky.
This Lab has Everything!
Texas Mobile STEM Labs offer cross-curricular STEM experiences. All activities focus on students designing solutions to problems and allow for collaboration and exploration of the content.
Purpose-designed K-8 teaching space
All equipment, materials and supplies
Full-time traveling staff to support student instruction and teacher professional development
Dedicated onboard electrical & HVAC
Wheelchair accessible entrances and exits
Flexible outdoor space, convertible fixtures, and moveable storage
What type of Engagement Happens onboard the Texas Mobile STEM Labs?
Learning Undefeated created an adaptable, cross-disciplinary framework and model activities for the Texas Mobile STEM Labs to introduce Texas teachers and grades K-8 students to principles of engineering design, aligned to Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS).
Each of the sixteen activities is 60 minutes in duration. The engineering curriculum framework includes:
Defining a problem.
Identifying criteria and constraints.
Designing, building, and testing.
Evaluation and iteration.
Visit Eligibility & Visit Requests
The Texas Mobile STEM Labs program offers up to a week-long visit for Texas public school systems across all 20 education regions, serving students in grades Kindergarten to Eighth Grade.
*New for the 2025-2026 school year*
The mobile lab fleet will expand from one lab to nine labs, increasing the total number of Texas Mobile STEM Labs visits available to campuses.
Scheduling requests open each April for the following school year. Sign up for the Learning Undefeated Teacher Priority Network to be notified when scheduling is open and learn about other programs available in your region.
All Texas public school systems that offer classes for grades K-8 are eligible to request a visit. Each grant year, 30 campuses will be selected in each service area. Every educational region will be served during the school year. Selection of campuses will be determined by evaluating responses to essay questions using a quality rubric. Each independent school district is eligible for one campus visit until all interested districts have had the opportunity to receive at least one visit.
The lab experience was just phenomenal for my students. The population that I teach does not have as much opportunity to get hands-on experiences with wet labs in middle school. I think that this experience really peaked interest in science."
Cheryl Grady Teacher, West Frederick Middle School
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