Serious Minecraft Building Yesterday....

Love to see young kids bring reference materials to class to support their work!!  Cool!

A bunch of excited kids playing together in a make-believe world = one very very LOUD room!!
New Minecraft Club rule this week...No yelling.  LOL!!

Another birthday bash with some "Structures" thrown in!

15 kids, a few fundamentals and some serious competition!!  Well....there may have been a few sneaked marshmallows from time to time. ;o)

Intro to Coding....We have some young geniuses!

The first Saturday class of Intro to Coding for 5-7 year olds was amazing.  We were floored at the ability of these young kids to understand and incorporate spatial orientation into both dictating instructions and incorporating code.  We fully observed the idea that "young kids learn quickly" and are thrilled to see how far their inquiry thinking and new coding skills will take them by week four!!

Minecraft Club Blasts Off

What a great kick off to the STEAM Jr Minecraft club!  Kids helping kids, working together with such an audible level of enthusiasm.  It was wonderful and we are really looking forward to next week!

HELLO COMPUTER Final Class: Drawbot Creation

Our first class of budding engineers ended with a bang, or a spin or whatever the kids thought up to make their drawbot move.  We used cups, markers, tape (LOTS of it), motors, batteries, stickers, straws, streamers, foam balls, popsicle sticks, eyes and even stale marshmallows to make it all work!

It was fun to watch them brainstorm and try several things to attempt to create enough movement for their bot to "move".

We will miss this particular group; forever our first STEAM Jr class graduates and congratulate them as they start to look at the world a little bit differently.

Best saying of the month from one graduate to his little sister...

"Don't worry Em, I'm an engineer!"

We are so proud,

Nooshin and Jennifer

The Birthday's Begin With A Bang!!

We had a BLAST last night celebrating someone very special's 7th birthday!!  Hope you had fun LK as we sure had fun with you!!

Sorry no photos of the dance party; technically speaking we think it had something to do with the spinning coloured lights and glow sticks.  LOL!

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HELLO COMPUTER!! Week 3

Today we reviewed the first two classes talking about electricity and the components of a computer.  Then we moved onto discussions of networks and the internet.  Ask the kids about how messages are relayed across computers in a common language...hint hint we played a game where the "right" messages were delivered to the "right" place and a special message was received!!  All kids left ready to ask Mom or Dad to show them where their "Router" is and can talk about the differences between a simple network and the internet.

The last half of the class each child planned and drew out their robot project for next week.  We will make "artbots" to take home.  Check out some of the cool ideas below!!