Budding designers will combine 3D art, Minecraft block and world-building, and creative writing to craft heroes, stories, and worlds in Minecraft and Tinkercad, a 3D design program in which you can create (and then print!) anything you can imagine. As we build, collaborate, and innovate, we’ll grow skills in 3D design, art, game modding, writing, and presentation. Includes use of 3D printing pens and introductions to Minecraft modding and coding. Dreaming it? Build it! This is a premium class and costs $40.00 per class

Budding designers will combine 3D art, Minecraft block and world-building, and creative writing to craft heroes, stories, and worlds in Minecraft and Tinkercad, a 3D design program in which you can create (and then print!) anything you can imagine. As we build, collaborate, and innovate, we’ll grow skills in 3D design, art, game modding, writing, and presentation. Includes use of 3D printing pens and introductions to Minecraft modding and coding. Dreaming it? Build it! This is a premium class and costs $40.00 per class

Let’s build and code our own robots to race, battle, and navigate “obby” (obstacle) courses that your team creates! You’ll learn how to program your robot with AI to conquer a new challenge every day like creating art, sumo wrestling, lifting payloads, shooting baskets, and scoring goals! We’ll learn to code our bots in the Blockly block-based coding language with introductions to JavaScript. You’ll be challenged to make a one-of-a-kind bot to solve a real-world problem like transportation for the elderly or cleaning up pollution. Learning to invent and problem-solve with your own robot is soooo much fun. This is a premium class and costs $40.00 per class

Budding programmers will create new blocks, interactive maps, puzzles, and characters, forging them all from imagination in Minecraft in this fun-first introduction to computer programming through Minecraft game design. Projects include generating buildings from blueprint designs, creating pixel art through algorithms, and applying an understanding of geometry to create 3D structures such as pyramids, cones, and spirals. We’ll build collaboration, communication, problem-solving, and digital citizenship skills as they share their knowledge with others in their class and online. With MakerState’s help, students can develop a lifelong interest in computer programming and design, all within the super-creative world of Minecraft. This is a premium class and costs $40.00 per class

Jump (literally!) into the world of thinking machines and the internet of things as we create art and code and build computer games and apps that respond to our speech and movement. We’ll imagine and design devices and games with the Micro:bit microcontroller and improve our innovations through Google Teachable Machine and webcam-enabled block-based coding, building a portfolio of software and hardware for use in the classroom, college, and career. Includes an introduction to Python. Skills Learned: Computer Programming, Computational Thinking, Physical Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Problem-Solving, Intro to Python This is a premium class and costs $40.00 per week

Feeling creative? Jump into our latest super-fun engineering arts and crafts! What we’re building in the makerspace this semester: slime, the tallest paper tower, sensory bottle biome, exploding seed pod, confetti launcher, plantable seed paper, Rube Goldberg marble runs, and a lot more! Dream it, plan it, and build it! This is a premium class and costs $40.00 per week

Coding is like learning a superpower! Little coders will explore computer science and computational thinking through fun, hands-on projects. We’ll create magical worlds with mountains, rivers, forests, animals, and robots, and program our own interactive stories and games using ScratchJr, Kodu, and CodeClubWorld. Along the way, we’ll learn animation tricks, creative problem-solving, teamwork, and how to express ourselves through stories and games. Screen time isn’t just fun—it’s creative learning time! Let’s code and make something awesome! This is a premium class and costs $40.00 per week

Let’s get hands-on to create a green future with 3D printing pens, computer aided design, and the immersive world of Minecraft. We’ll collaborate to solve real-world challenges like planet-friendly farming, sustainable transportation, and renewable energy. We’ll experiment with playdoh, bubble wands, and 3D designed geometric shapes like triangles, pentagons, and hexagons to test structural integrity and create giant sustainable structures like water filtering mountains and windmills in Tinkercad. And we’ll import our towering bridges and buildings into our own Minecraft worlds. This camp combines hands-on building and drawing with a 3D printing pen with the imaginative power of Tinkercad and Minecraft to bring your wildest sustainable architecture ideas to life. If you like to explore, craft stories, and build amazing creations.Projects Include:Tinkercad: 3D design water filtering mountains and windmills using geometric shapes like triangles, pentagons, and hexagons.Hands-On Art: Create play doh structures and bubble wands to test structural integrity. 3D Printer Pen: Hand-draw and build 3D printed structures to test their structural integrity with the 3Doodler pen. Minecraft Inventions: Build planet-friendly farming, transportation, and renewable energy and import your CAD (computer-aided design) artifacts into your own world. This is a premium class and costs $40.00 per class