Stay tuned – there will be more!!

Amusement Park

What could be more fun (and educational) than creating your own Amusement Park? Using advanced LEGO^® Mindstorms systems that interact by infrared beam to our computers, students will build and program a bumper car, a merry-go-round, a tour bus, and more

AQUABOTS (Developed at the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy)

Using the motivational effects of robotics to teach math, science, and engineering concepts! Student AQUANAUTS  go on an amazing undersea
voyage of discovery when they are needed urgently by Sea Lab Nautilus. Robots will be built and programmed to explore the ocean floor, save a giant squid,
and more.

BeeBot: Robotics & Programming

BeeBot, our new robot friend, has buzzed into town to help young programmers write their own programs. In this unique class, students are able to go from the virtual to the concrete. With hands-on fun and minds-on creativity, BeeBot will spark young imaginations!

Claymation Cinema

Students will perfect their skills as claymation cinematographers as they create their own unique productions. Using the same tools used by today’s best known animators, this course will spark imaginations and provide the tools to bring ideas to life!

Dinosaur Discovery!

Beginning paleontologists learn about dinosaurs and the techniques used in extracting fossils in this hands-on class.  Go on your own fossil dig, analyze and assemble skeleton pieces, produce a fossil reconstruction, create a mural…

and take home a movie documentary of your discoveries!

Digital Movie Making

Lights, Camera, Action! Join us for the COMPUTER EXPLORERS^® Film Festival. Students create all the artistic elements for their movies including characters, costumes & sets. They also handle all of the movie’s technical details including using a digital movie camera, digital editing & special effects. They will even bring their final   movies home  on CD for all to see.   

Look out Hollywood!

Engineering for Building

No amount of “huffing and puffing” will blow our buildings down! 
Understanding and visualizing dimension is the cornerstone of engineering, architecture, and building.  Students learn principles of construction and use math skills as they experiment with scale and size, symmetry and reflection, staggering vs. stacking.  In a hands-on class using LEGO^® materials, we’ll build houses with removable roofs, castles with turrets, and towers of strength!

Engineering 1

This exciting hands-on, engineering class combines LEGO^® Education and LEGO^® Technic materials to explore motorized simple machines by building realistic models.

Students will understand structure and forces, levers, pulleys, gears, and gear math. Student teams creatively solve motorized system challenges using concepts learned in class.

Take the accompanying workbook home from the final class.

Engineering 2 (Grade 6+)

Students use LEGO^® Technic materials to build complex machines as they learn about structure and forces, levers, wheels and axles, gears, gear math, ratchets and drive trains.

Using teamwork and a series of challenges, groups work together to create motorized systems, blocks and tackle, steering systems, manual transmission, differential gears, and then tackle more advanced challenges.

Take the accompanying workbook home from the final class.

Become a junior engineer!

Join us as we explore, investigate, & solve problems while we learn about the building blocks of engineering – simple machines. Students enjoy hands-on activities with levers, gears, wheels, axles & pulleys that incorporate math, science & creativity.

Hand out sheets will keep parents up to date with their child’s new knowledge each lesson.

Don’t miss out on this fun, hands-on course where you will actually learn how to program a robot! Our robot, ROAMER™, can turn, draw, measure, do math and even make music!  Our students learn how robotics and programming go hand-in-hand as they write programs and give commands for Roamer to follow. Fun & excitement abound as young children build their own robots using an infrared controlled robo-vehicle construction set. First we build them and then we make them go, go, go!

The Microscopic World

Guess what we discover under the microscope! Together we will explore a whole new world of learning and excitement. Using a child-friendly digital microscope, students will explore the concepts of magnification, science, nature study, and digital editing.

PROBE (Developed at the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy)

Esteemed Commander-in-Chief, Roxie S. Rivetminder will welcome the Humanoid Engineers and, facilitated by amazing graphics, they will then go on
a fantastic robotics adventure to a mysterious planet in deep space. The base camp will be set up on planet H-99 and exciting challenges will begin!

Robot Adventures Construction Club

Hands-on fun & excitement abound as young children build their own robots using an infrared controlled robo-vehicle construction set. First we build them and then we make them go, go, go! Young programmers will send robots on awesome adventures and to play cool games. LEGO® bricks will become our tool for building vehicles, structures, and environments and props for robots.

Jumping Jiminy Crickets! The newest in robotics and programming fun is the PicoCricket^®. Design and create your own creatures, sculptures, or 3-D art, then program the devices for action! Make a cat and program it to purr when petted. Make a birthday cake and program it to play a song when the candles are blown out. Make a bobble-head with multiple heads that jiggle and jump or jewelry
that sparkles and sings. Your imagination is the main ingredient!

Video Game Design

Design, create and edit your own 2-dimensional arcade-style video game:
design the action, create the characters, and edit the objectives and outcomes.  Take home a CD with your game on it so that you can challenge your friends
and family!

 ‘Smart’ Art & Design

Hands On Robotics

Junior Engineering