Little Brains (4-6 years):

March 17-21:

9:30-10:30 Civil Eng.

• Civil Engineering: They will find a way to put all his or her creativity into building skyscrapers, castles, shelters, bridges, and roads. During this process, they find answers to some questions about how to resist movement before falling, how big may I build it, and how much weight it resists. The little brains will learn about forces, materials, structural design, foundations and more. At the same time, they will learn concepts of designing, building, and testing his or her castles, bridges, houses, and roads. All the while using his or her creativity, curiosity, and STEM methodology.

snack break

11:00-12:00 pm Aerospace

• The aerospace industry is one of the most fascinating things for children, since we were kids, we figured out a way to reach the sky, designing wings, machines, devices that help us do this.
• Aerospace engineering involves the design and construction of planes and space shuttles. Aeronautical engineering covers craft that stay inside the Earth’s atmosphere (such as commercial planes) while astronautical engineering covers craft that leave the Earth’s atmosphere (such as space shuttles).
• In this program the little brains will learn about the fundamentals of aerospace engineering discovering about aerodynamics, gravity, velocity, forces to lift, drag and thrust objects, aerospace principles like Bernoulli principle and more, using his creativity and curiosity to design and build their own flying machines at the time they have fun.

12-1PM lunch

1-2pm Manufacturing Eng.

• Many kids in the future could work in the industry, so in this lesson they will have the opportunity to know how the industry works. Manufacturing is an important way for a society to create wealth and for the kids to use their creativity to discover it.
• The industrial engineer organizes people, places, equipment, and information, ensuring that work areas operate safely and efficiently, the assembly line runs smoothly looking for continuous improvement to make our lives easier, by example seeing that your favourite food is always in stock.
• The little brains will understand how they can use the STEM model to improve what is done in the industry, how they can develop new industries in a safe and productive way, they will design, build products and production lines to fill the needs of the customers in a fun and interactive way.

2:30-3:30pm STEM 360

• STEM 360• is a course series that combines 6 different types of Engineering into this one series. Students will use all his or her creativity to design, develop, build devices and systems, getting an overview of multiple engineering disciplines. Combining other branches of engineering, they will face the challenge from Aerospace, Robotics, Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Engineering. All Engineers use science, technology, and engineering principles to solve problems. This STEM 360 the program will allow your budding engineering to face challenges from different types of Engineering and discover which one they like the best. Engineering in the future will also be the combined effort of many different types of Engineers working together to solve problems. The little brains will face different challenges designing, building, testing and improving their experiment. Therefore, this is an excellent way to discover different types of Engineering while having fun using STEM Learning.

March 24-28:

9:30-10:30 am Robotics Eng.

• Robotics is the science or study of the technology associated with the design, fabrication, programming and application of robots. The robots are something exciting for the little kids, they always have the curiosity to know how it works and find a lot of designs for a robot not to mention applications.
• A robotics engineer is responsible for design, creating and programming robots and robotic systems that can perform duties that humans are either unable or prefer not to complete. They help to make jobs safer, easier, and more efficient, particularly in the manufacturing industry.
• The little brains will discover what is behind a robot, the design possibilities, the materials, mechanical simple machines used to build, what software is, and the programming languages used to create the robot instructions. Under the STEM Education programs, the leadership of our instructors and assistants, students use the VEX 123 hardware and GUI programming languages on computers to build their robotic animals, machines, and toys. They will code the algorithms to make their robots function and innovate by improving their programs or physical robot design

snack break

11:00-12:00 pm Chemical Eng.

• Chemical engineering uses science to process raw materials and chemicals into useful forms. They can lead to the discovery of important new materials and processes. These discoveries may be useful for other engineering disciplines or just to make our lives easier.
  The little brains will learn about solutions, chemical reactions, mixtures, solids, liquids, absorption, and more concepts while using his or her creativity and curiosity about the STEM methodology.

12-1PM lunch,

1-2pm Mechanical  Eng.

• In mechanical engineering there is always a new way to perform a task, to improve a process or simplify our lives designing and using machines, tools, or devices using physical concepts and principles.
• A mechanical engineer designs mechanical systems, machines, and tools to improve our lives using a number of important physics concepts and principles like energy, fluid mechanics, forces, characteristics of materials, etc. as well is responsible for maintenance of those machines, and other mechanically functioning equipment.
• The little brains will learn about simple machines, mechanical design, kinetic energy, mechanical energy, pneumatic and more, working in teams, discovering and having fun while they use STEM for their learning.

snack break

2:30-3:30pm Software Engineering 

• Software Engineering: Software engineering uses science, technology, and Math to process raw information and commands into a language that computers and machines use to perform tasks that we want. Software Engineering can lead to the discovery of important new ways to assist humans and processes useful for other engineering disciplines or just to make our lives easier. Students will learn about algorithms, sequencing, looping, switches, and program logic while having fun.

Specialist /Managers (7-14 years)

March 17-21 – 9-12PM: Robotics Engineering Challenges *updated*

• A robotics engineer is responsible for designing, creating, and programming robots. Robotic systems can perform duties that humans are either unable or prefer not to complete. They help make jobs safer, easier, and more efficient, particularly in the manufacturing industry.
• The specialist and managers will reinforce their robotic concepts. They will work with the sensor and advanced programming to face a variety of challenges mixing mechanical design and programming design to solve problems. The VEX IQ Model materials and the VEXcode (Scratch like) GUI software are also used in this course. The children will face different challenges having fun utilizing the STEM education model: This exciting week of Robotics, the students will build their own VEX IQ, play Gotcha, their VEX IQ will have an In-line skating race, Robot-communications, and their VEX IQ will make its way through an obstacle course.(Bring your own USB Drive to save your programs)

March 17-21- 1pm-4pm : KEEP IT GREEN, WORKING TOGETHER

(TinkerCAD intro and student choice CAD design process for each challenge)

In this week of spring camp students will:

• Day 1:Recycle Race. They will learn how we can find a simple machine in recycle materials and how we can use this concepts and their creativity to create something fun like a car made of recycle materials, they will learn the basic to build it and test it, then they will improve their designs to use Eolic energy in a final Recycle Car Race.

• Day 2:Clean Energy’s: We are continuously using more than one source of energy in our lives, some of them are non-renewable energy and they create damage to our planet. Students will discover basic concepts about clean energy and will work on more than one project to build and test their own clean energy devices.

• Day 3:The oil spill challenge. Oil spills happen far too often harming living things because the chemicals in oil are poisonous. It may take decades before the ecosystem around the oil spill recovers from the impact of the environmental disaster. Students will design, build and test their own tools to contain an oil spill; learning about ecosystem impact from this disaster.

• Day 4: Water Purification. Water makes up about 71% of the Earth’s surface. A small percentage is fresh water available for human consumption, using STEM students will design, build and test their own water filter to get clearer water and rise awareness about the importance of water for living beings.

• Day 5: Robo-Cleaner. Technology is always there available to make our life easier; This time students will design, build and programming a Robot that help them to face a cleaning challenge to help keep our planet with out trash learning basic concepts about Robotics and environmental engineering.

Specialist /Managers (7-14 years)

March 24-28 – 9AM-12PM: PLAYING WITH STEM

(TinkerCAD intro and student choice CAD design process for each challenge)

In this week of spring camp students will:

• Day 1: Aiming Contest. Students will learn physics basic concepts like elasticity, tension, velocity, thrust and more, to design, build and test their own launchers to face different challenges. Students will use mathematics, physic concepts, engineering design process as well their creativity to find the best materials and best design to face each challenge.

• Day 2: All Terrain Robot Race Challenge: They need to build their Robot, learn about programming and IR sensors to make their remote control and use their creativity and Engineering Design Process to design the tools to complete and all terrain race, and other challenges.

• Day 3:Electro-Fun!. Students will learn the basic concepts about electricity building their own electromagnets facing a challenge that will required all their creativity and focus; Then learn and work with electronic circuits to design and build fun electronic projects using STEM to complete their tasks.

• Day 4:STEM Toy Maker. The students will learn how we can use the physic concepts and Engineering Design Process to design and build toys that will help them to face different challenges making individual effort to build teamwork.

•Day 5:Sailing with wings. In the last day students will learn about Aerospace Engineering concepts, like Bernoulli principle first understanding how the wind give thrust and flows through objects and then designing and building their own paper airplanes to complete more challenges individually and in teams like a boomerang airplane.

March 24-28- 1-4PM:   Crazy Science Challenge

(TinkerCAD intro and student choice CAD design process for each challenge)

Launch water rockets, discover pneumatic principles, build a truck with a mechanical hook, create their fuel cell that generates hydrogen using solar energy, turn on a Vibrating Robot,  and they will learn about production line manufacturing, making their own ice cream.