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*NEW* First LEGO League | BioGlow (Grades 2-4)
First LEGO League | BioGlowGrades 2 - 4Instructor, Katie Davis, Shirley Hills Technology SpecialistIn BioGlow Future Edition, First LEGO League teams participate in a game experience centered around biodiversity, using LEGO Education Computer Science and AI kits. Teams will collaborate to build and code wireless hardware to advance their skills and solve missions in this new interactive alliance-based game across the mat during the two and one-half minute matches. Through their Innovation Project, they will dig deeper and learn more about biodiversity and how the balance between nature and humans keeps our world healthy. At the end of the season, students will participate in the Explore Festival. Teams will showcase their models and "Show Me" posters, meet with reviewers (family, friends, school staff) and celebrate their accomplishments! Tuesdays, September 15 - December 15 (not meeting November 3)3:40 - 4:40 pmShirley Hills Primary School | Media Center#1378-A26F$265 (t-shirt included) -
Engineering for Kids | STEM Club ( Grades K-4)
Engineering for Kids | STEM Club Grades K - 4 All new lessons for the new school year. Calling new and returning students - The Engineering for Kids Jr Engineering/STEM Club brings fun, hands-on lessons every week to introduce engineering concepts at a young age. For each lesson, students focus on developing 21st Century skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, and teamwork. These life skills give students the confidence to approach challenges in their lives and realize that they can succeed in anything! Session ITuesdays, September 22 - October 20 (not meeting October 13)3:40 - 4:40 pmHilltop Primary School | Art Room#2038-A26F$119Thursdays, September 24 - October 22 (not meeting October 15)3:40 - 4:40 pmShirley Hills Primary School | Art Room#2038-B26F$119 Session I Week 1 - Aerospace Engineering | Stunt Plane Students learn about the science of flight and design their own glider. Week 2 - Acoustic Engineering | String Telephone Students explore how sound travels by creating and testing their own string telephone. Week 3 - Mechanical Engineering | Pyramid Slingshot Students explore potential and kinetic energy as they design and build a simple pyramid-style slingshot. Week 4 - Coding Unplugged | Binary Bracelets Students learn how information is represented so that a computer can interpret and store it, then create a simple binary bracelet. Session IITuesdays, November 17 - December 15 (no class November 24)3:40 - 4:40 pmHilltop Primary School | Art Room#2038-C26F$119Thursdays, November 19 - December 17 (no class November 26)3:40 - 4:40 pmShirley Hills Primary School | Art Room#2038-D26F$119 Session II Week 1 - Environmental Engineering | Bug in a Web Students learn how spiders use their webs to catch bugs in nature, then build a simple bug-in-a-web model inspired by how real webs work. Week 2 - Electrical Engineering | Magnet Maze Students learn about magnets, their properties, and how they're used in navigation tools like compasses, then create their own magnet-guided maze. Week 3 - Chemical Engineering | Witch's Brew Students experiment with different materials to create a bubbling, chemical-reaction powered witch's brew. Week 4 - Mechanical Engineering | Propeller Car Students get a hands-on lesson in air powered thrust and inertia as they design and test a propeller car. -
Youth Enrichment | Intro to Competitive Robotics (Grades 5-7)
Intro to Competitive RoboticsGrades 5 - 7Instructors, Nathan & Breana NortonIntro to Competitive Robotics is a program in which students in Grades 5-7 design, build, program, and test an autonomous robot using LEGO Spike Prime to complete a set of missions. Students will learn how to research, problem solve, code and engineer throughout the program. Their creativity, ingenuity, and hard work will be presented at the regional tournament. The regional tournament is organized by First LEGO League Challenge, an international organization that encourages middle school students to engage in robotics. (For more information on First LEGO League visit www.firstlegoleague.org/about) At the tournament, our students will be judged on a presentation that highlights a solution they researched and developed to address a real-world problem facing engineers today. They will also be judged on building and programming a LEGO robot to navigate missions. The coaches will act as facilitators, guiding students in building a robot, researching new solutions and understanding core values.Prior knowledge of robotics or programming is not required. Students will learn all skills throughout the program.Tournament season: Weekly team meetings will be held at Westonka Middle School immediately after school. We will start meeting at the beginning of the school year and continue until the tournament. Coaches will coordinate with parents if more meetings are needed as the tournament time approaches. Attendance is important as our season progresses as each student is integral to the team.Parent meeting: Thursday, September 106:00 pmWestonka Middle School | Cafeteria Tuesdays, September 15 - Tournament date (late November - mid December)*not meeting November 33:00 - 5:00 pmWestonka Middle School | STEM Room 135#1379-A26F$265 (includes team t-shirt)Regional Tournament: date to be determined and will be communicated to parents
