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Robotics (Grades 3-8) – Summer Camp – August 5-9, 2019

Join us for a week of exploring, building, commanding, and programming robots. We will learn how to program robots without code, meet a robot engineer, complete challenges, engineer and program robots, and build our own robots to take home. Kids will work with a variety of robots from Ozobot, Wonder Workshop, and LEGO.

When you register for this camp, a Lab Fee of $50 will be added to your cart, to cover the cost of the robot (and batteries) that your child will build during camp. Your child will take the robot he or she builds home at the end of the week.

This camp is for kids who were in grades 3 through 8 during the 2018-19 school year. If you have a younger child, please contact us before registering for this camp, as we may need to evaluate your child to determine readiness. We split kids into groups based on their grade level and experience. If we have room, we can sometimes move kids between groups, but will do so only with instructor approval.

Kids should bring the following to camp each day:

  • Nut-free lunch and snacks
  • Water bottle

This camp is Monday through Friday, 9am-4pm. Before and after care may be available for an additional cost. Please let us know if you need them when you register.

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Robotics (Grades K-2) – Summer Camp – July 15-19, 2019

Join us for a week of exploring, building, commanding, and programming robots. We will learn how to program robots without code, meet a robot engineer, complete challenges, engineer and program robots, and build our own robots to take home. Kids will work with a variety of robots from Learning Resources, Ozobot, Wonder Workshop, and LEGO.

When you register for this camp, a Lab Fee of $50 will be added to your cart, to cover the cost of the robot (and batteries) that your child will build during camp. Your child will take the robot he or she builds home at the end of the week.

This camp is for kids who were in grades K through 2 during the 2018-19 school year. It is not recommended for older children.

Kids should bring the following to camp each day:

  • Nut-free lunch and snacks
  • Water bottle

This camp is Monday through Friday, 9am-4pm. Before and after care may be available for an additional cost. Please let us know if you need them when you register.

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Coder Kids – Summer Camp – July 8-12, 2019

It’s time to code! This camp is pretty much all code, all the time. Your kids might start speaking like robots after this week… or maybe they really are robots, programmed by your kids, so they can spend more time playing Minecraft?

This is a kid-paced, instructor-supported camp. We will evaluate kids on the first day of camp, to determine their experience and interests. Then kids who are strong readers will work through our self-paced curriculum, where they can learn Scratch, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and Python. Kids who aren’t strong readers will play code-readiness games, work with ScratchJr, and program some robots.

When you register for this camp, a Lab Fee of $25 will be added to your cart, to cover the cost of software license fees.

There aren’t any take-home crafts for this camp, as the kids spend so much of their time working on their code.

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LEGO Robotics – Winter 2019

Learn how to combine LEGO® bricks with gears, pulleys, motors, sensors, and programmable parts to build and code robots. Kids in grades 1-4 will use LEGO WeDo 2.0 sets, while kids in grades 5-8 will use LEGO Mindstorm EV3. They will work in teams of 2 to build robots and program them to solve challenges. With

This class is appropriate for kids in grades 1-8, and meets February 7-March 28 (8 sessions) on Thursdays, 6:15-7:15pm. We meet at the same time as the Robotics Club, and kids are welcome to join that after they finish this class, if they would like to continue to work with the LEGO robotics sets or other robots. Kids who are already in that club are welcome to participate with this class, or continue to work on their own projects.

When you register for this class, please plan for your child to attend every session. There are no make-up sessions for this class.

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