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My First Minecraft Mod
STEAM
Get an introduction to programming as you create your own mods for Minecraft using the power of code. Build and customize fantastic worlds using Code Kingdoms, an intuitive coding interface that allows you to program on various levels, ranging from simple block coding to more complex Java. Run your codes and see your projects come to life in Minecraft. Please note: Minecraft experience is highly recommended, but not required. No programming experience necessary.
SummerFun! 2024
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Robot Commanders 101
STEAM
Learn about what it means to write, debug, and execute computer programs that communicate with different robotic devices. Using the power of code we’ll turn Sphero SPRK+ robots into Magic 8 Balls, automated Red Light/Green Light games, and the arcade classic Pong. Unruly Splats will become voting machines, relay races, guessing games, or anything else you can think of.
SummerFun! 2024
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Sensational Science
STEAM
Have fun doing creative hands-on experiments that go beyond what you would learn in school. We’ll dabble in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Focus on things that fly by constructing paper helicopters, launching straw rockets, and participating in a paper airplane challenge. Build a marble maze, a spaghetti tower, and more. Do chemistry experiments, explore electricity, and get “attracted” to magnetism, then make a flip book about our experiments to take home and share.
SummerFun! 2024
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Expert Urban Planners
STEAM
Join our community as we build and govern a world-class LEGO city, ready to be inhabited. Build, budget, and furnish your own house. Plan a marketing campaign as you establish your own business. Serve on the city council, create laws and a constitution, and vote to shape the city’s future. See how math, economics and community-building are key to a successful, working urban environment. Social studies has never been so much fun!
SummerFun! 2024
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Historic Adventures Using Minecraft
STEAM
Travel through history following thrilling true-story adventures of the Cold War, Titanic, and Forbidden City. Get introduced to each time period by watching a short cinematic Minecraft film. Then take on the role of a famous historical figure such as President John F. Kennedy or Emperor Yongle. Try to find an imposter on the sinking Titanic, skydive into the Forbidden City to loot treasure, survive endless waves of zombies and other Minecraft mobs in the U.S. Pentagon, and more, in authentic Minecraft recreations of these historic locations.
SummerFun! 2024
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Virtual Space Missions
STEAM
Blast off! Develop your own space mission including rocket design, launch, and orbit, using Kerbal Space Program (KSP). KSP is a space flight simulation game that provides an exciting and intuitive environment for learning about space exploration. You’ll learn about astrodynamics and physics as you explore realistic, modern-day space flight.
SummerFun! 2024
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LEGO: Pokémon Engineering
STEAM
Calling all Pokémon trainers! Build and catch your favorite Pokémon from LEGO parts, rescue Pikachu from Team Rocket, take a ride on the S.S. Anne to uncover rare and mythical Pokémon, and battle to see who will hold the title of Pokémon Master. Come along on an exciting journey to catch ‘em all!
SummerFun! 2024
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LEGO: Bash ‘Em Bots
STEAM
Design a custom LEGO bot to take on any challenge. Mix and match chassis designs using wheels, treads, or walking legs. Combine these with tools like drills, hammers, and battering rams. Refine your masterpiece by sparring with friends and overcoming obstacles. Apply real-world engineering and physics concepts to help you bash and crash your way to victory!
SummerFun! 2024
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Circuit Makers 101
STEAM
Let’s get creative with electricity! In this hands-on electronics course, gain experience creating your own electronics. Design custom light-up greeting cards, electric games, mazes, and even musical instruments. Each day consists of a circuitry lesson and a hands-on project, using components like lights, buzzers, switches, motors, and sensors.
SummerFun! 2024
Expert Architects
STEAM
The sky’s the limit in Expert Architects! Take a turn being president of an architectural firm tasked with designing and building the city’s next skyscraper. We will learn the history of skyscrapers and create blueprints of our own stylized tall buildings. Looking at factors such as the environment, traffic, and surrounding buildings we’ll use Google Earth to find the perfect location. We will present our finished three-dimensional LEGO models at the end of the week.
SummerFun! 2024
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LEGO: STEM Explorations
STEAM
Master your engineering skills and explore architecture using tens of thousands of LEGO parts. Design and build as never before, and explore your craziest ideas in a supportive environment. Grades 1-3: Build structures such as tunnel boring machines, stilt houses and teacup rides. Grades 4-7: Construct elaborate houseboats, heavy duty forklifts, and Big Ben clock towers.
SummerFun! 2024
Art Lab
STEAM
Can science make you a better artist or help you create your next masterpiece? Come find out in this colorful, creative week that’s all about combining science with art. We’ll make blender art by engineering our own tools to splatter paint, use chemistry to mix up a miraculous bonding liquid to mold and glue sculptured structures, explore the science of shadows as they help us draw animals, and more.
SummerFun! 2024
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Little Zoologists
STEAM
Take a ride on the wild side as we explore all kinds of animals and how they interact and adapt to our ecosystem. We’ll investigate camouflage, migration, regeneration, and the many tangles of the food web. From rhinos to hummingbirds, we’ll learn about incredible adaptations animals have made and how they continuously adapt to our constantly changing world.
SummerFun! 2024
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Metrocraft
STEAM
Learn math, economics, civics, geometry, and how democracy works as we join together online to create a city within a virtual Minecraft world. Through this engaging, problem-solving class, design your own house and business as we learn about budgeting, profit and loss, and supply and demand. As we serve on a city council, study how laws are made and work together to create and vote on a city constitution. Work in committees to make key decisions and design buildings for their city. We will use mathematics and geometry to construct a working urban environment.
SummerFun! 2024
Map Masters
STEAM
Mount Kilimanjaro, Zion National Park, Icelandic glaciers and volcanoes, and a high speed rail network in Japan—we’ll explore these places and more as we learn about using and making maps. Through hands-on investigation, detailed drawing, and 3D construction using a variety of materials, learn the language of cartographers as you map unique landscapes, major points of interest, and physical topography. Then put your skills to the test by following a “treasure map” that will lead to a prize hidden somewhere at SummerFun!
SummerFun! 2024
Interactive Coding
STEAM
Explore Scratch programming, using the MIT-developed programming interface to craft stories and games. Then we will use Makey Makey boards to invent new ways to interact with the Scratch projects using everyday objects. Our circuitry projects will become musical instruments, video game controllers, pressure sensors, and more. No prior coding experience required.
SummerFun! 2024
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Intro to Game Design with Java
STEAM
Engage your problem-solving, logical thinking, and computational skills as you tackle Java, which is used for building mobile applications, web applications, desktop applications, games, and more. We'll break down complicated concepts so you can use the multi-platform coding language to make images, animations, and games.
SummerFun! 2024
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Innovation Station
STEAM
Construct bridges, buildings, boats, and more using building blocks, LEGOs, and some unusual materials, then see how well they stand up to wind, weight, water, or other forces. Figure out creative ways of cleaning up messes using your knowledge about how substances either mix or don’t, and apply these innovative solutions to real world problems—think oil spill cleanup.
SummerFun! 2024
Full STEAM Ahead!
STEAM
FULL DAY: Full STEAM Ahead! as you join a wild, crazy, and extravagant week of geeking out on tech. We'll give you the tools and confidence to complete five exciting projects in five days. You'll become a Scratch superstar and learn to code as you build cool interactive games. As a Minecraft mastermind you'll design and engineer towering castles and sprawling cities. Use powerful design software as a graphic design guru to create eye-catching logos, posters, and illustrations. Photo phenoms will capture amazing shots, explore angles and lighting, and discover the magic of visual storytelling through stills and video.
SummerFun! 2024