Wayzata Community Ed

Unleash your imagination as you journey through the wide-ranging world of LEGO® building. Students working in pairs will build models and discuss the engineering science behind each. This fun, hands-on class shows students how engineering can be fun and silly yet still educational. Students will then be challenged to improve the model and customize their creations. Possible models include the never-look-back machine, skittletops, do-nothing machine, coat hanger daredevil, trapdoor cable car parachute machine, rubber band racer, balloon-powered car, and other crazy action contraptions.

Make, Experiment, and Play! Our hands-on building activities will inspire you if you love building and inventions! Students working in pairs will learn about physics and engineering concepts. Build machines that will whirl, flip, launch, or cruise.Every day will involve fun LEGO© challenges, puzzles, or game contests. The perfect opportunity for kids who enjoy loads of active building fun!

Chain reactions! Design and build amazing moving machines and teach our Lego bricks new tricks! With an active imagination as your guide, there are endless possibilities. Students working in pairs will learn about physics and engineering concepts such as Velocity, Projectiles, Trajectories, Force, Motion, and more.Every day students will learn new ways to combine LEGO© to cause different chain reactions and, on the last day, design their own Rube Goldberg Machine.

This camp will energize and excite students by combining the LEGO® building system's versatility and the Mindstorms EV3 (the most sophisticated microcomputer brick ever made by LEGO®). Working each day in teams, students will construct fun LEGO® models, experiment with programs, and compete in robotic challenges. Robot building, block programming, and teamwork will be part of each day's activities. The final challenges will be centered around hitting targets and a sumo battle. Students will be working in small teams of 2-3.

Students will program robots to move, act and think on their own. Discover the excitement of programming your creation to follow a command and watch it go. Our classes are fun, educational, and hands-on, teaching students the foundations of building and programming concepts.Students working in teams will then be challenged to morph their projects into better, stronger, or faster robots.

Learn about medieval technology as you build drawbridges, catapults, battering rams, and crossbows. Combining the versatility of the LEGO© building system with the most advanced technology LEGO© has ever developed, unleash the creative powers of the new LEGO© Mindstorms to create and command robots and devices that can do anything you can imagine. Students working in small teams will build these exciting robotic models, learn how to program them into action, and then can experiment and modify the programs.

In Fascinating Physics, students will use their natural curiosity to explore physics, the science of motion. We will investigate force, friction, gravity, simple machines, and much more with engaging activities and experiments. Please join us for this exciting Jr. STEM class as we take our first steps into the fascinating world of physics.

As artificial intelligence becomes more present in every aspect of life, it is critical that our children have tools and understanding to operate the future world. This camp id designed to learn about fundamentals of AI development and application through a variety of activities in coding, games, and robotics. Campers will use their AI skills to develop their own creations.

This 3D printing camp takes students through the 3D printing process from start to finish. Students will design 3D objects using TinkerCAD and the 3D slicing program Cura to bring their creations to life. From industrial design and manufacturing to software and hardware engineering, the 3D printing industry is booming. This course is an excellent introduction to 3D printing and is ideal for students who like to draw, design, imagine, and see their creations come to life. Printing and material fees are included. Students will get to bring home two of their 3D creations.Students should have basic reading skills.

Create YOUR OWN VIDEO GAME! Love video games? Young students can create their platform video games in this incredible class! Choose your storyline with your favorite superheroes as your stars. Add challenges and difficulty levels. Then, share them by email or post them on the web to challenge family and friends. Students can practice math, logic, and programming and put their video game talents to work! Bring a USB drive to save your games on the last day. Students should have basic reading skills.

Get a great head start in learning how to code as well as learning computer science concepts using one of the fundamental programming languages of professional developers: Python. Its syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than possible in languages such as C++ or Java, making it the perfect coding language for beginners. Python is a text-based language, so students should have good keyboarding and basic computer skills. Bring a USB drive to save your games on the last day.

Learn to create an interactive 2D video game using your FAVORITE characters. Choose characters from Pokémon, Nintendo, Minecraft, and even classic characters like Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Sonic, and Mario! In the first class, we will learn to use Scratch, and in the final session, students will be walked through creating a maze game and picking which main character to use. Bring a USB drive to save your games on the last day. Students should have basic reading skills.

Learn the basics of game design in this class using the hit game, Roblox. Create your own 3D games in Roblox Studio! In this class, we will explore the different possibilities Roblox has to offer in creating awesome games. Bring a USB drive to save your games on the last day. Students should have basic reading skills.

Students will be introduced to object-oriented programming and elements of the Java language while learning to code their text-based RPG (roleplaying game). No programming experience is necessary, but familiarity with everyday tasks using a computer operating system (text-editing and understanding directory structures) and keyboarding is required. Bring a USB drive to save your games on the last day.

In this amazing game building camp, ninjas will learn some of the basics of computer science by coding mini games such as a maze, hide-and-seek, and even your very own creation!