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Techno-Science!

This page describes our fabulous Science, Robotics and Technology combination camps. This page includes camps that use LEGO Technology and also other technology. We also have camps that are Robotics only, Science Only, or are combinations of science and technology with art. To see those you will need to click on the links to the left. To see all camps for a specific age group, please click on the Ages link.

The next 3 camps incorporate a combination of LEGO® Education Technology and hands-on Science

• Option STR 5: Technically Magic (Ages 4-5)
• Option STR 6: RoboMania(Ages 6-8)
• Option STR 7: Electrified and Robofied (Ages 8-10)
• Option STR 8: Technically Crazy (Ages 7-10)
• Option STR 9: Extreme Builders (Ages 11-14)

These are described below.

 

Science, Technology, & Robotics Combinations

TechnoScience: The next 5 camps incorporate a combination of LEGO Education Technology and hands-on Science.

Option STR 5-Technically Magic (Ages 4-5) 

What a great Combination! We will combine the fun of Science Magic with the LEGO® Education's Tech Machines!

For every child that asks the question "WHY?"

• Does your child like to mix, make, laugh and learn? Then this is the camp for you! We mix it up so that your child stays engaged! Dr. Lipid is back and boy is he mad! Our arch enemy is up to no good and we have to stop him!
• Investigative fun is yours as the O.X.Y.S. (Only eXcellent Youth Scientist ) match their wits against Dr. Lipid, Head of the Organization of M.O.R.O.N.S. (Magical Ogres Reshaping Our Natural Systems). The children will learn many exciting science principles as they work their way through the snares Dr. Lipid left behind!
• Your child will magically change a liquid’s color and make boxes defy gravity. They will make things fizzle and pop! They will create vacuums that suck eggs into jars! Your child's eyes will be wide with excitement!
• What more could you want? Well, how about building the coolest machines to help us along they way?
• You will not believe what your child will be creating with LEGO® Education's Tech Machines and Simple Machines Sets! Your child will be learning the concept of Levers while building fun and exciting machines such as a Crane, a Giraffe that rises up to eat leaves from the trees, a Fishing Pole that uses magnetic force to catch fish and so much more!  The children will learn science, technology and problem solving, while increasing communication skills and fine motor coordination. All this while having a GREAT time!

Option STR 6: Robo Mania (Ages 6-8)

This will be an incredible combination of science and Technology where we will use the LEGO Education WeDo Robots, Early Simple Machines and Motorized Machines along with experiments that boggle your mind and have the children saying “NO WAY!”

In this Phenomenal Physics class your child will:

• Make and take home a working flashlight from scratch as they learn about circuitry, electricity and magnetism.
• Learn about action and reaction as they experiment with colliding balls, balls and tracks, and create amusement park rides that defy gravity! This is a fun and hands-on way to learn about centrifugal force, friction and Newton's Laws.

In addition to all of this the students will use LEGO® Technology with the following:

• Students will get their first introduction to robotics with the exciting LEGO® Education WeDo™ Robotics Software and Construction Set. Students will learn how to program and create a working model, use software media to acquire information, and use feedback to adjust a programming system output. The students will explore a series of cross-curricular, theme-based activities while developing their skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, as well as language and literacy.
• Early Simple Machines and Motorized Machines, the students will focus on one of the following programs: Gears, Levers, Pulleys or Wheels and Axles. Working in teams of two, your child will learn the scientific principles above while getting comfortable with building using the LEGO TECHNIC® pieces. This program will improve your child’s problem solving skills while encouraging team work.
• There is so much more we cannot begin to cover it here,the only question is will you send your child or yourself to this Incredible Camp!

Option STR 7 Electrified and Robofied Ages 8-10

This camp is an exciting combination of Science and Technology. This camp is for children who love to design and build with their hands. Great for our engineers of the future! (Please note: this is simular to what was offered in our after school Technoscience class. If your child took that class, we recommend a different option for camp)

In ELECTRICAL SCIENCE we will:

• Learn about electrical circuits, bread boards and circuit boards
• See the inside working of a motor and learn the relationship between Electricity and Magnetism
• Create and take home a model of an electric house where they create their own switches, wiring, series and parallel light circuits, for a 4 room model home.
• Create a MagLev racer that they can take home. They will have the oportunity to race these on the MagLev train track.
• Make, modify and take home an electric car that responds to it's environment..
• Interact with many different robots and understand what "makes something a Robot".

TECHNOLOGY will incorporate two programs:

• LEGO® Education Pneumatics:  The students will build many machines that are operated by a Pneumatic system.  Explore power systems and components, sequence and control, pressure, prototyping, kinetic and potential energy and much more!
• LEGO® Powered Science & Technology Program: Here the students will build a different motorized and non motorized models each day. These will be models that MOVE and can be modified by the student teams to perform a task in the most optimal method. This will introduce gears and pulleys, structural design, forces and motion, energy and more. This will help the students understand how robots move.