Wayzata Community Ed

Math practice accompanied by enrichment activities for the upcoming summer months, created by current middle school math teachers with 50+ years of combined experience! Math-by-Mail is expanding its options to do math! Not only are we offering our predetermined set of 8 packets, we will also offer an ala carte menu! Our added approach allows for individual choice regarding the skills and concepts students and parents can request to build math confidence. Still an 8 week course with a self paced approach! Student completed packets should be mailed (USPS) to Math-by-Mail. We will then provide feedback and return corrected packets to students via USPS. As always the goal of Math-by-Mail is to provide rich content to maintain mathematical understanding! Math-by-Mail is a summer opportunity to keep young minds active with this locally developed curriculum. Minnesota State Standards, Math Frameworks MCA strands, and current Minnesota Benchmarks are the foundational basis for this curriculum. With creative problem solving, multiple choice, short answer and vocabulary embedded into an 8-week course of independent study, students will maintain or increase the level of their math understanding, in addition to reviewing the recommended targets suggested by grade level in the Minnesota School Academic Standards for mathematics. Each student will be given a pretest to assess the appropriate skill level necessary to strengthen their individual math needs, unlike other programs that are exclusively grade level driven. Students will receive an 8-lesson packet to complete at their own pace throughout the summer. As students finish packets, they are mailed back for feedback and then returned to the students. **All packets are due back by August 9 in order to provide timely feedback before the 2024 school year begins. Please reach out at any time if you have questions. Registration closes June 28, 2024.

Join us as we explore, investigate, and solve problems. This exciting, hands-on engineering class combines LEGO® Education and LEGO® Technic™ materials to study design, technology, science, and mathematics. Students will build learning models and then be challenged to customize and improve their projects with what they have learned. We will investigate design principles, mechanisms, pneumatics, pressure, prototyping, energy, and many more. Possible projects include the scissor lift, stamping press, robotic arm, robotic hand, animatronic scarecrow, and dinosaur.

The Ministry of Magic is inviting all aspiring wizards to this extraordinary camp. Each day, students participate in engineering challenges to earn points for their houses like creating the farthest-reaching Golden Snitch Launcher and the fastest Gringott Cart to reach the vaults. At the end of the week, the house with the most points is awarded the house cup, a great honour!

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.