Kids will need their creativity, design, and engineering skills to design, build, program, and test robots and complete the week's age-appropriate challenges. We introduce our students to the concept of Algorithm and Sequencing, emphasizing the importance of structure and logic in any programming exercise. Our Robotics program allows kids to solve challenges using their creativity and critical thinking while working in team and individually. This program will teach kids to present their thoughts and designs, discuss the possible options and go through all the phases of the Design Thinking Process. We will have a daily engineering hour to work on engineering projects, including a wind turbine, bottle raft, wave machine, and much more. Those projects will include a building part and learning and discussing facts behind it.
The BBC Micro-bit is a tiny programmable computer, designed to make learning easy and fun while including complex projects. Students will work on engineering solutions for the challenges which will involve building Bugbot powered by solar power, Circuit piano. Robot builds for Microbit will include Spider robot and Maqueen car, which we will use to play soccer and bowling, solve maze and more. We will talk about basic principles of electricity, magnetism, and more. Students will use block-based coding.
Join Dungeon Master for an immersive, interactive, and unforgettable high fantasy adventure. As seen on the hit show Stranger Things, Dungeons and Dragons promotes creativity, negotiation, diplomacy, problem-solving, communication, and math.
Players will navigate and help create their own story in an open-ended setting. Their decisions have real consequences, and their actions can help shape the fate of the world.
Campers will have a 3D Modeling and Design session every day so they can create and print their own characters for the game, create and build the game scene, and more. This will be a small group of a maximum of 6 students.
DISCLAIMER: Dungeons and Dragons, by nature, can be violent and stressful at times. We have made a strong effort to make this campaign kid-friendly, but there is still the possibility your child is exposed to violent situations and dark themes.
In this hands-on program, campers will use TinkerCAD. We will cover features and tools available in the application and talk about different aspects of design, like perspective, measurements, interior design, architecture, etc. Campers will model different objects while progressing through the curriculum. We will give them challenges to recreate designs, build famous architectural masterpieces of the world, and give them time to create their own masterpieces, implementing their wildest ideas into life. We will work with a real 3D printer, which will give each camper an opportunity to print their design from scratch. Each student will have 2-3 printed creations.
In addition, campers will be able to build their figures using Lego blocks by designing step-by-step layered instructions.
We teach students to build and program robots using Lego Mindstorms Robotics. LEGO MINDSTORMS lets you unleash a world of walking, talking, and thinking robots where designs are the only limit to with their imagination. Campers will have a chance to build from instruction manuals and to also build their own designs. We will start with building a Rover Car and then a PlotBot (drawing robot) to learn the basics of assembling, coding, investigating, testing, and troubleshooting. We will learn from the basics to the more advanced programming blocks, including color and touch sensors. Our robots will move, talk, play music, dance, draw, and much more.
Dash and Dot are robots that can sense, act, and think! Students will use block coding to control their robots, use accessories to make robots draw, play music, or play games. In the class, students will be introduced to Dash and Dot, learn how to make them move, change ‘face’ expressions, show feelings using colors, play music, play bowling, have a mission to Mars, and many more. This is a great tool for the early development of the interest in Robotics. We also use other building kits and toys like code mice and building engineering blocks in this camp.