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Imagineers & Gears
Imagineers & Gear Grade(s) PreK-2nd
Let your imagination and ideas take you wherever you want to go!
Students will learn engineering key concepts and fundamentals building with LEGO elements from the creative tool kit. Learning as we go numeracy, literacy and much more. Students will be challenged to use LEGO pieces to create a structure or setting using LEGO elements. Students will engage with hands-on experience including fun and problem-solving activities and be encouraged to tell a story about their creations. Your student will be offered special pieces for their builds to complete their story. Students will learn to identify build pieces, and their function required to build structures towards the next step into Robotics. This program offers STEM-STEAM curriculum as well diversity, self-esteem, social competency, collaboration and more. Concepts and core values are taught to prepare students for life challenges.
Robots Rule!
Robotics Grade(s) 2nd-5th -6th
Students follow design step by step instructions to build a bot to compete with other teams. Challenging activities will participate in challenging competition but that’s not all! Let’s modify Like a BOSS! with their teammates to test their robot’s structural integrity and maneuverability. Time to THINK outside the BOT! How can I make the Bot go faster? How can I make it more powerful? These are the questions the students will be faced during their competitions. Students will use LEGO Technic pieces that come together to create movable, steerable, controlled robots.
- Engineering Concepts
- Structural Integrity
- Gear Ratios-The need for Speed
- Simple Machine to Robotics
Code SpHERO!
Grade(s) 3rd-6th
What is Sphero and how does it work? Sphero is an adorable, durable, interactive—you guessed it—spherebot. Don’t let its size deceive you! Its functionality is almost boundless. Let’s dig in. Students connect to provided tablets via Bluetooth, and dive into programming on day one! With a maze activity, kids learn to program their ‘bots to navigate a maze—without touching the walls. Students will use the Sphero has a programmable 8×8 LED matrix, so students can code it to change colors when Sphero rolls, stops or starts, reaches a goal, or whenever else they’d like. Coding sounds hard, but our younger coders utilize what’s called block coding. This means they’re not typing out code by hand—which can be complicated for such an age group—but rather dragging visual blocks into the coding area and connecting them.
MicroBlock MicroBits
Grade(s) 3rd-6th
Become a Code Wizard with MicroBlocks-MicroBits
What is Microblock?
MIcroBlocks is a scratch like blocks programming language for learning physical computing with education microcontroller boards. User-friendly drag and drop access. Students become algorithm architects or code commanders. ‘Micro: bit’ is a small programmable computer, designed to make learning code and computers easy and fun! Electronics and coding equals a fun learning style. You can use your Micro: bit for many different cool coding creations, starting small with making your first step counter, a virtual magic eight ball and then on to robots. The Micro: bit can be coded from any web browser in Blocks, Javascript, Python and Scratch with no additional software required.
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