COMPUCHILD has expanded its after-school enrichment franchise into Union City and Hayward, California, a move announced on May 28, 2026 that brings a new territory under the ownership and operation of Samareen Rafai. The company is now offering Entrepreneurial STEAM programs to families in two East Bay cities, with classes built around hands-on learning and technology.
The expansion is being pitched to parents looking for steam education that goes beyond homework help. COMPUCHILD says its programs blend STEM and STEAM with financial awareness, communication and ethics, and the new territory will include robotics engineering, coding, drone programming, 3D printing, clean technology, electrical circuits, speech and debate, digital book writing, Science Bowl preparation, investing, AI and machine learning, and startup pitch development. Those offerings will be delivered through after-school classes, weekend enrichment sessions, holiday camps and summer camps.
Rafai brings a background in Computer Science Engineering, more than five years in the IT industry and several years working in education with elementary school students. She also spent more than three years teaching enrichment classes with COMPUCHILD, experience that gave her a direct view of how the programs work in practice. She said being both a parent and an instructor gave her a personal understanding of how children respond to engaging, hands-on learning experiences, and that when she first started teaching with COMPUCHILD, she saw children actively building, exploring, creating and thinking independently.
That matters because COMPUCHILD is describing the expansion as a response to growing interest from families seeking meaningful after-school enrichment shaped by artificial intelligence and technology, but it did not provide local enrollment figures or any sign of how many students in Union City or Hayward are expected to sign up. The company is a rapidly growing children's education franchise that says its programs are designed for elementary and middle school students, and the new territory appears to extend that push into another pair of communities without yet showing how quickly demand will translate into classrooms.
What comes next is the part families in both cities still need answered: when the first classes will start, how full they are likely to be and whether the new territory will open with all of the promised program lines at once. For now, COMPUCHILD has made the expansion official, and Rafai is the person charged with turning that announcement into a working operation.
