STEM-to-STEAM was developed in 1991, when Paula Nabrit and her late husband, Charles Madison Nabrit, began homeschooling their sons. They developed a mission statement to holistically nurture the spiritual, intellectual, and physical components of their sons and others. Charles Nabrit believed that becoming a contributor, rather than a consumer of their beloved community, would be an inevitable outcome of this mission. He was proven right decades later, when STEM-to-STEAM: It's All in the Garden, was built off of this very model. Since 2014, the camp has grown from free Saturday classes led by their sons, Charles and Damon, to a full, one-week day camp with students from OSU as paid counselors.
