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Adventure with LEGO |
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| MiniBuilders An exciting combination of activities, games and lots of building. Games incorporate sequencing, number and letter recognition, sight words, counting, mini-math and more! We build everything from an apple to a zebra. | ||
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Planes Trains & Automobiles This program features our favorite modes of transportation, planes, trains and automobiles. We build everything the traveling imagination holds as we get under way and on the move. Learn how transportation things work! PreK - K |
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| Super Heroes Calling all super hero fans! We will summon our inner super hero to create the lair and halls of justice. We will fuel our imagination as we build our super hero adventure. K & Gr. 1-3 | ||
| Space Adventure Calling all space explorers? We will explore space, the solar system, space vehicles and cool space destinations as we create our space adventure. To infinity and beyond! K | ||
| Forts & Castles Forts are an all time favorite of builders. Castles of Medieval Times, moats, keeps, battlements, magical princess balconies with lots of building challenges. Creative construction of the forts and castles in your child’s imagination. Towers, bridges, fortress, regal palaces, forts and castles of the future. K & Gr. 1-3 | ||
| Treasure Seekers "X" marks the spot in this program. We are looking for treasure in all the right places; pirate ships, King Tut’s tomb, in the castle, city and in space. Be ready to create and follow a treasure seeking adventure. | ||
| Space Quest Do you dream of becoming a space traveler? All things space; build a space station, robotic arm, aliens and a futuristic city, the vehicles of our space program. How about the Mars Rover, a Star Wars battleship. Bring your imagination and plans for space travel. | ||
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World Capitals This program will focus on the architecture of world capitals. We blend history and structural engineering to construct the monuments, landmarks and skylines of international and U.S. capital cities. The World’s tallest building, Eiffel Tower, bridges that are engineering marvels, the Olympic village or Washington Mall. Name your destination. |
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| Chicago Cities This program will focus on Chicago architecture, its many bridges and an innovative cooperative program building project! Bridges, urban structures, towers, skyscrapers and how it all fits together. Design and build your Metropolis. We incorporate elements of urban planning, city science and dynamic skyscraper design! | ||
| Can Do Robotics actively engages your child’s creative thinking, introduces concepts and establishes building blocks to design, build and program robotic projects. Put on your thinking cap to solve problems and challenges through fun robo invention with all elements in the lab. We add ingenuity to create a mix of practical and wacky projects. | ||
| Introduction to Robotics This program introduces robotic concepts and establishes the building blocks to design, build and program robotic projects. Participants work in small teams and individually on bot projects. Introduction to Robotics is required for participants grades 2 -3 before participating in another robotic program. | ||
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| RoboQuest Gr. 1-3 Embark on your RoboQuest to design, build and program your bot. Follow your quest and take on the challenges of sumo, battlebots, search & rescue, obstacle courses, track rover, moon rover, even robo quidditch. | ||
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Jr. BBots It's Junior BattleBot time! Create a robo-alien with special powers or a fierce, battling, dinobot to race and battle in our junior robot battle? |
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| BattleBots It's BattleBot time! Enter the robot building lab as you design & program your very own all new, motorized creature. Will you create a robo-alien with special powers or a fierce, battling, dinobot to race and battle in our robot battle? | ||
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RoboQuest+ Embark on your RoboQuest to design, build and program your bot. Follow your quest and take on the challenges of sumo, battlebots, search & rescue, obstacle courses, track rover, moon rover, even robo quidditch. |
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| RoboChallenger Are you a RoboChallenger? We will match wits in a series of robochallenges including Sumo, Tug o War, Obstacle Course Race, BattleBot, Speed Racer & more! | ||
| RoboSports Are you ready sports fans? Can you create a robot sports star? Design, build and program your robot to compete against other robots and other teams. Challenge your creativity and thinking skills on this robo playing field. | ||
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RoboSpace Race This is the great robo space race. Design and race your space bot over the obstacle course and race course. Program your bot and strategize your bot sensors to meet the challenge. This is a mission like no other. A Martian storm or "Houston we have a problem". Design and build your space bot’s mission saving strategies. |
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Gadgets & Gizmos Hey mini inventors! Let’s make cool and crazy gadgets & gizmos! Our inventions will be inspired by Dr. Seuss, Science Kids, Kid Inventors, inventions all around us, and awesome creativity. There’s fun to be done! K |
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| Cool Contraptions This invention based program is all about building contraptions, vehicles and machines that move. Gears, beams, pulleys, wheels, axles, pieces that snap and flex. Everything we need to invent cool things that move. | ||
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| XTreme Contraptions We take Cool Contraptions to the next level building contraptions with an increased emphasis on invention, mechanisms and motion. Gears, beams, pulleys, wheels, axles, pneumatic motors, robotics and remote controls. This is extreme invention. | ||
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Inventions in Motion It's hand-on fun and learning as we make everything move with motors, remote controls & green energy. Participants test their creations in crazy races, feats of motor madness and obstacle course maneuvers. |
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| 6 Flags Magic Mountain This program will focus on design, invention and a little bit of science of the amazing amusement park rides. Design and build your dream fun park with bumper cars, roller coasters and gravity defying rides of your imagination. | ||
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Junkyard Challenge You are challenged to design and build the fastest, strongest, smallest, largest, lightest, heaviest, most maneuverable, most durable, and coolest machines and structures to accomplish a series of junkyard challenges. Rube Goldberg would be proud! All building elements in the junkyard are used including bricks, Technic pieces, gears, motors, found items and robotics. |
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Ingenuity Project Create machines with personality...contraptions that race, dance, rise to the challenge of search & rescue, perform stunts that amaze and amuse. We will customize our bots, experiment with sensors and remote controls and learn the essentials of design and structure. Get ready to take it to the next level. Ingenious! All building elements are used including bricks, Technic pieces, gears, motors, and robotics. |
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Project Innovation In this Lab program innovation and design drive solutions. Programs activities are more advanced with an emphasis on innovation, design, problem solving, prototype & testing through a series of challenge projects. |
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| DM Academy: Game Design | ||
| GotGame Game Design Explore video game design and create your own videogame! We will play games to learn how to build games, create our mission and quest and rise to the multi level challenge. Integrate graphics & sound, your toolbox of assets all using Gamestar Mechanic. | ||
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| GotGame GameLab Take game design and exploration to the next level to create your own video game. Create video game adventure, mission and quest to rise to the multi level challenge. Integrate graphics & sound, your toolbox of assets using Gamestar Mechanic, Scratch & GameSalad. | ||
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GotGame Games for iPhone, iPad & Web Create your own video game for your iphone, ipad or web. Design & build the characters, rules, tools and challenges of your own game using GameSalad. |
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| DM Academy: Film | ||
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Film & Special Effects Capture your creativity and vision. Write, direct, & create your own film short. Enhance your exciting film with special effects, green screen, editing and sound. Learn the techniques that make science fiction, action, and fantasy movies so exciting, bringing your imagination to the big screen. Kids create their own video short project. |
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| Animated Film Bring your animated film project to life while learning how to make an animated short from start to finish, from character design to editing. Bring walking, talking characters to the screen, based on your own design. Kids create their own video short project. | ||
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Make a Stop Motion Film Learn the techniques to make your own Stop Motion Short; King Kong climbing the Empire State building, Luke Skywalker riding the ice beasts, Wallace and Gromit, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Create your characters, sets & props, and add cool digital tools to make your stop motion masterpiece. Kids create their own video short project. |
