This Virtual Reality class engages students with coding, game and app design and VR game-play using the Oculus Go, a stand-alone virtual reality VR headset. Students will ultimately experience and modify interactive virtual reality games! *Note - Student does not take the Oculus Go headsets home. When and Where This Class is Offered: Week 3 [...]
Through this course, students will develop a better understanding of war, peace, and game theory through daily, real-world simulations that match student “nation teams” against one another. Students will be challenged to develop solutions to complex problems like wars, treaty collapses, and food shortages and develop problem-solving, collaborative, public-speaking, and negotiating skills. By the end [...]
Students will create their website in one week using HTML and Wordpress. They will learn to organize their thoughts in a theme they select, develop content and create web pages. Students will learn to use popular plugins to make contact forms, sliders, polls, photo galleries, maps and blogs. At the end of the class, students [...]
Welcome to a world of discovery, creativity, and fun at the Wee STEAMers Pre-K Camp, where young minds explore Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math through engaging, hands-on activities designed to spark curiosity and joyful learning. Campers will create art inspired by science themes, develop problem-solving skills with Bee-Bot robots, tackle LEGO building challenges, and enjoy math-based scavenger hunts, counting songs, and shape activities. With captivating stories, language games, outdoor play, and playful team challenges, this camp fosters creativity, confidence, and a love for learning, all in a nurturing and laughter-filled environment.
This class is about hands-on fun and exercising our creativity. Kids will be playing with their food…after making them. They will be making cakes, burgers and other favorite foods using modeling clay. They will make flower arrangements inspired by the artist, Georgia O’Keefe. They will make pop-up cards that Hallmark would be envious of. Finally, the kids will put on a puppet show using puppets they design and create.
People have been playing with chemistry for thousands of years, by stirring things together and boiling concoctions. Students will walk the path of early chemists by making perfumes, soap, chemical batteries and synthetic dyes. Students in this class will also conduct experiments to see evaporation, carbonation and oxidation in action. When and Where This Class [...]
Kids will have a chance to design and build a variety of engineering projects to strengthen their creativity and problem-solving skills. Projects include cardboard tube suspension bridge, clothes hanger balance scale, drinking straw roller coasters, shoe box foosball game and recycled bottle cars. As the class progresses, the students are given more leeway to design [...]
This class can be taken more than once. Students build different robot models and learn different math skills each week. Lego WeDo Robotics - Using the LEGO® Education WeDo™ Robotics Construction Set, the students are introduced to simple robotics through building models, attaching sensors and motors, and using a computer to program the model’s behavior. [...]
Scratch Jr is an introductory programming language that enables youngsters to create their own interactive stories and games. Children snap together graphical programming blocks to make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. Children can modify characters in the paint editor, add their own voices and sounds, even insert photos of themselves — then use the [...]
