Purpose Learning Lab, Inc
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We are a nonprofit in Durham, NC, dedicated to empowering youth and teens through academic support & STEAM Infused enrichment.
We provide safe, engaging spaces where children can explore their passions, build confidence, and unlock their full potential.
09/21/2026
🤖🚨 THE ROBOT CENTER IS OPEN…AND WE HAVE NEW BOTS!!! 🚨🤖
Something NEW has rolled into Purpose Learning Lab, and our scholars are READY! ❤️💛
Our Robotics Center is officially open with NEW ROBOTS for our scholars to explore, build, code, test, and challenge! 🤖💻⚙️
At PLL, robotics is more than playing with cool technology. Our scholars are developing:
🧠 Critical-thinking skills
💻 Coding & computational thinking
⚙️ Engineering skills
🧩 Problem-solving
🤝🏽 Teamwork & communication
💡 Creativity & innovation
🔄 And the confidence to TRY, FAIL, REDESIGN & TRY AGAIN!
The BEST learning happens when scholars are so engaged they don’t even realize how much they’re learning! 🔥
🤖 NEW BOTS. NEW CHALLENGES. NEW SKILLS.
We aren’t just introducing our scholars to technology…
WE’RE PREPARING THEM TO CREATE THE TECHNOLOGY OF TOMORROW! 🚀🤖
09/20/2026
🥤🧵🏗️ ENGINEERING WITH CUPS & STRING?! YES, PLEASE! 🏗️🧠
At Purpose Learning Lab, sometimes the simplest materials create the BIGGEST learning experiences! ❤️💛
Our scholars took on the Cup & String Engineering Challenge—using cups, string, teamwork, and some serious brainpower to design and build structures without using their hands to move the cups! 😱🔥
The challenge required scholars to:
🧠 PLAN a strategy
🧵 CONTROL the strings
🤝🏽 COMMUNICATE with teammates
🥤 BUILD the structure
⚖️ Explore balance & stability
🔄 REDESIGN when things didn’t work
👏🏽 And most importantly…WORK TOGETHER!
One person pulling too hard could change the ENTIRE structure—which turned into a powerful lesson about engineering AND teamwork! 💡
At PLL, STEM isn’t always expensive equipment and complicated technology.
Sometimes it’s a few cups, some string, curious minds, and permission to CREATE! 🥤🧵✨
❤️ Collaborate. Communicate. Engineer. REPEAT.
🌊💦 ENGINEERING WATERSLIDES AT PLL! 🛝🧠
What happens when you mix WATER + ENGINEERING + CREATIVITY + a little PLL FUN?! 😱💦
You get our ENGINEERING WATERSLIDE STEM CHALLENGE! 🔬🛠️
Our scholars became ENGINEERS as they designed, built, tested, and improved their very own waterslides! 🙌🏽
📐 DESIGN IT!
🛠️ BUILD IT!
💦 TEST IT!
🤔 What went wrong?
🔄 REDESIGN IT!
🏆 TRY AGAIN!
Along the way, scholars explored gravity, force, motion, speed, slope, friction, and the engineering design process — without being stuck behind a desk! 🧠🔥
And when that first design didn’t work?
THAT was part of the lesson! 👏🏽
At Purpose Learning Lab, we’re teaching our scholars that engineers don’t give up when something fails…
THEY IMPROVE THE DESIGN! 💡
This is STEM at PLL: Get messy. Ask questions. Build something. Test it. Learn from it. TRY AGAIN! ❤️💛
💨🔬 WAIT…AIR CAN MAKE A BALL FLOAT?! 😱⚽
At Purpose Learning Lab, our scholars put AIR POWER to the test during another hands-on STEM experience! 🧪🙌🏽
Using an air-powered ball STEM toy, scholars explored how airflow, force, pressure, and gravity work together to keep a ball floating in midair! 💨⬆️
But at PLL, we don’t just WATCH science happen…
👉🏽 We PREDICT.
👉🏽 We TEST.
👉🏽 We ASK WHY.
👉🏽 We TRY AGAIN.
👉🏽 We LEARN OUT LOUD! 🧠🗣️
The best part? They were having so much FUN they didn’t even realize how much science they were learning! ❤️💛
THIS is what learning looks like at PLL.
Hands-on. Minds-on. Curiosity ON! 🔥
Because sometimes the best way to teach STEM is to simply give a scholar something cool and ask…
“WHY DO YOU THINK THAT HAPPENED?” 🤔💡
09/17/2026
💎💕 PURPOSE PEARLS COMMUNITY SERVICE DAY! 💕💎
PRETTY. POWERFUL. PURPOSEFUL. & POURING BACK! 👑✨
Today our Purpose Pearls traded performance mode for SERVICE MODE! 🤝🏽💗
Because being a Purpose Pearl is about so much more than learning routines, hitting counts, and performing. We are developing young ladies who understand the POWER of serving others, giving back, showing kindness, and taking care of their community.
💕 Little hands can make a BIG impact.
💎 Leadership starts with SERVICE.
🤝🏽 Community starts with US.
👑 And a true Pearl SHINES wherever she serves!
We’re teaching our girls early: Don’t just ask what your community can do for you—discover what YOU can do for your community.
Today wasn’t about trophies or applause.
SERVICE WAS THE WIN. 🏆💕
Keep dancing. Keep leading. Keep serving. Keep SHINING! 💎
PURPOSE PEARLS — We don’t just perform with PURPOSE. We LIVE with PURPOSE.
09/16/2026
📚✏️ HOMEWORK HELP IN ACTION!
At Purpose Learning Lab, we know that learning doesn’t stop when the school bell rings! Our scholars have dedicated time to complete homework, ask questions, build confidence, and stay on track academically. 💙
Every assignment.
Every question.
Every “I got it!” moment.
It all adds up to PURPOSE! ✨
Learning. Growing. Achieving. That’s PLL!
09/16/2026
🦷🍎😁 EDIBLE SMILE LAB — AFTERSCHOOL VIBES! 💙✨
Where SCIENCE + CREATIVITY + FUN + PURPOSE come together!
Our PLL scholars turned snack time into a hands-on learning experience with our Edible Smile Lab! 🧪🦷
From building their own edible smiles to exploring teeth, healthy choices, and how our bodies work, our scholars were learning while creating—and having FUN while doing it!
At Purpose Learning Lab, Inc., afterschool is more than homework help. It’s a place where curiosity comes alive, friendships grow, and everyday moments become opportunities to learn, explore, create, and discover. 💙
Every experiment. 🧪
Every creation. 🍎
Every smile. 😁
Every connection. 🤝
Every moment serves a PURPOSE!
💙 This is PLL. This is afterschool. This is PURPOSE in action!
09/16/2026
❤️💛 IN THE COMMUNITY REPRESENTING PLL WITH MY SIDEKICKS! ❤️💛
When PURPOSE calls, we SHOW UP! 🙌🏽✨
Out in the community representing Purpose Learning Lab with a few of my favorite sidekicks! 🥰
For us, community engagement isn’t just about being seen—it’s about building relationships, creating partnerships, opening doors, and making sure our scholars have access to opportunities beyond our four walls. 🌎📚
Every conversation could lead to a new resource.
Every connection could become a new partnership.
Every partnership could create an opportunity for a child. ❤️
And THAT is why we keep showing up!
📍In the community.
🤝 Building connections.
📚 Advocating for our scholars.
💡 Creating opportunities.
❤️ Leading with PURPOSE.
PLL outside! 😎❤️💛
09/15/2026
🎉❤️ WELCOME TO THE TEAM!!! ❤️🎉
Purpose Learning Lab is GROWING, LEARNING & BUILDING! 🌱✨
We are excited to officially welcome some incredible new additions to our PLL Dream Team!
🎓 4 Social Work Interns
⭐ Senior Team Lead
💻 Administrative Support
🧪 STEM Facilitator
💚 SEL Wellness Coach
But joining the team is just the beginning! 👏🏽
Our Lunch & Learn Professional Development Series is officially scheduled for the NEXT 12 WEEKS! 🥗📚
Because when we invest in the people who pour into our scholars, EVERYONE GROWS.
Over the next 12 weeks, our team will learn together, strengthen our skills, share ideas, build stronger systems, and continue creating an environment where scholars can thrive academically, socially, and emotionally.
❤️ Better equipped staff.
🧠 Stronger programming.
🤝 Greater collaboration.
🌱 More confident scholars.
✨ BIGGER IMPACT.
At PLL, we’re not just building programs.
WE’RE BUILDING PEOPLE WHO BUILD PEOPLE. 💪🏽
Welcome to the Dream Team! ❤️💛
📚🔥 LEARNING DOESN’T ALWAYS LOOK THE SAME AT PLL! 🔥📚
Who said you need a chair to learn?! 😂🙌🏽
During Intensive Learning: Math, our scholars decided to go CHAIRLESS — and guess what? The learning didn’t stop! 🧠➕➗✏️
At Purpose Learning Lab, we understand that every scholar learns differently. Sometimes learning means sitting quietly at a desk…and sometimes it means standing up, moving around, talking through the problem, asking questions, and LEARNING OUT LOUD! 🗣️💡
👏🏽 HUGE shoutout to our amazing tutors for teaching our scholars how to slow down, think through the problem, explain their thinking, and work step-by-step toward the answer.
We aren’t just teaching them to get the answer.
💡 We’re teaching them to understand HOW they got there.
🧠 We’re building problem-solvers.
💪🏽 We’re building confidence.
📈 We’re building independent learners.
At PLL, sometimes you have to get OUT of the chair to get INTO the learning! ❤️💛
Different learners. Different strategies. ONE PURPOSE.
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2315 Sparger Road
Durham, NC
27705
Opening Hours
| Monday | 8am - 6pm |
| Tuesday | 8am - 6pm |
| Wednesday | 8am - 6pm |
| Thursday | 8pm - 6pm |
| Friday | 8am - 6pm |
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