Jr. Chef Academy: Storybook Cooking (St. Ignatius Catholic School)
Description
This class will use look at different literary texts and from those texts create the recipes. The students will get to combine reading and get a basic understanding of cooking skills. Plenty of treats to eat, and stories to tell!
In this interactive science camp, campers explore the art of forensic science! Learning to take a fingerprint, study a crime scence, analyze handwriting and much more! This forensic science camp is sure to capture all future forensic scientists!
What makes things go? In this camp we will experiment with how and why things react the way that they do. From futuristic car designs to harnessing the power of wind, our campers will be finding answers each day to this curiosity filled question. This will truly Rock Your Grey Matter!
Cooking Around the World (St. Ignatius Catholic School)
Description
Campers take a global trek across the world and the dive into different cultures through exploring their culinary worlds.Campers learn how to respectfully and tastefully compliment and indulge in cultures other than theirs through fun delicious and informative recipes. Campers learn all about the arts and histories of these foods
IDEA Lab Robotics provides fun, hands-on projects to get your child’s creative juices flowing. Working with a Robotics teacher, campers will participate in team challenges and learn how to build robots using various LEGO programming tools- all while making friends, developing new skills and having a great time with STEAM.
Use the power of physics to experiment with your own roller coasters. Build a conceptual coaster using physics concepts used in real roller coaster design. Challenges for you and your team will include: creating multiple loops, speediest coaster, the height of hills and many more. We will learn all about the laws of physics in this class.
With the new Maker movement underway, IDEA Lab Kids offers amazing opportunities for campers to innovate, design and learn process engineering. Campers are given challenges and allowed the freedom to experiment with all kinds of materials to provide innovative solutions to given challenges. This class is heavy on critical-thinking and problem solving. Imagination is the key to this class as campers Tinker and Build and Explore their way to cool gadgets and crazy contraptions.
AM: Jr. Robotics/PM: Stop Motion Animation (St. Austin Catholic School)
Description
AM: IDEA Lab Robotics provides fun, hands-on projects to get your child’s creative juices flowing. Working with a Robotics teacher, campers will participate in team challenges and learn how to build robots using various LEGO programming tools- all while making friends, developing new skills and having a great time with STEAM. PM: IDEA Lab campers will learn to work with Stop Motion Animation and learn how to take pictures and put them together to create their very own stop Dinosaur and LEGO Stop Motion movie.
How Stuff Wokrs: Electrical Engineering (St. Austin Catholic School)
Description
Have you ever wondered how electricity flows through our homes and schools and neighborhoods? In this engineering camp, Campers learn the basics of electrical engineering, how it has changed over time, power sources and many many more engineering concepts.
In this camp, campers will utilize basic baking skills to create treats that are not only delicious, but beautiful to look at as well! Emphasis will be placed on the art and joy of baking as well as creative presentation of treats.
Learning to code with Idea Lab is engaging and fun even at a young age. Kids rapidly learn fundamental programming concepts as they drag and drop their way to writing actual code and creating a working program.
3D printers offer an amazing experience with art and design mixed with technology. The 3D Modeling technology allows our campers to design and manipulate 3D design models to create one of a kind designs. Work with actual 3D printers to bring your design to life and see them take shape in front of your own eyes. We provide the 3D printers - you provide the creative twist.
Have you ever wondered how electricity flows through our homes and schools and neighborhoods? In this engineering camp, Campers learn the basics of electrical engineering, how it has changed over time, power sources and many many more engineering concepts.
Get your lightsabers ready we're training new Idea Lab Jedis! Being a jedi is more than fun, it's science also! Learn how Jedis fuel and maintain their bodies. Do some fun and exciting Jedi experiments. This camp is great for the little Jedi in your life.
Use the power of physics to experiment with your own roller coasters. Build a conceptual coaster using physics concepts used in real roller coaster design. Challenges for you and your team will include: creating multiple loops, speediest coaster, the height of hills and many more. We will learn all about the laws of physics in this class.
AM: Coding and Programming-App Inventor PM: Sustainable and Civil Engineering
Description
AM: Using App Inventor, students will go through curriculum that drives the creative process of creating an app. Beginner level Coding and Programming skill will be developed in this half day camp! PM: Civil engineering consists of design and construction, physical and naturally built environment, including works such as roads, bridges, canals, airports, and railways. In this camp, Campers will explore infrastructure, zoning, and designing their own city
Stencyl is a powerful game creation toolset, centered around an intuitive block-snapping interface. With Stencyl, students can produce their own games with graphic programming (Blocks of Code), play them on their computers and mobile devices, and distribute them for anyone to play on the iOS App Store and Google Play.
Its a Bird, It's a plane, it's a flying mechanism? Campers explore the secrets of flight in this fun action packed engineering camp! Campers will learn about the science behind flight, how flying has changed the world, and the future of flight!
The possibilities are endless. We will be using our imagination and technical skills to write, shoot, and edit our movie, tv show, or news broadcast so that we can post it for the world to see.
After learning about basic physics principles and Newton’s Laws, campers will design and build structures of all sorts, from mini roller coasters to hydraulic elevators. Daily timed design and build challenges help campers experience the excitement of engineering while engaging in critical-thinking exercises. An Engineering journal will capture this journey.
Get familiar with microcontrollers, learn the basics of using electronic components and building your first robot with microcontrollers. This camp is a hands on experience with microcontrollers, motors, sensors, wires, the “nuts and bolts” (pun intended) of real robotics. Utilizing off the shelf “real world” hardware and software, campers will gain valuable robotics skills enabling them to either continue exploration at home or explore new areas of electronics, fun and learning.
All businesses have to start somewhere. In this class, students will learn what it takes to become a part of the next up-and-coming business, from managing products, to understanding business risks worth taking
Want to be a vet? From putting on Lab coats to learning about injuries, this camp will give you a chance to learn a bit about caring for our pets. You will get to learn about how pets’ bodies work and how to care for them when they are sick! From building your own Veterinarian Kit to learning about pet care, you will learn while having an amazing time. Campers will proudly carry a veterinarian bag and the graduation certificate as a graduate of Idea Lab Vet School.
3D printers offer an amazing experience with art and design mixed with technology. The 3D Modeling technology allows our campers to design and manipulate 3D design models to create one of a kind designs. Work with actual 3D printers to bring your design to life and see them take shape in front of your own eyes. We provide the 3D printers - you provide the creative twist.