Class  Options

To insure the best experience and class dynamics, students will be be grouped in classes according to both grade level and prior experience.  The general guidelines are as follows:
  • EV3 L1  -  groups appropriate for new students as well as those with some previous experience, grades (3-6)
  • FLL Focus -  concentrated efforts on improving robot designs and programming strategy for the fall FLL competition (4-7)
  • RoboCup  - Design, construct & program robots to solve the RoboCup Rescue Lines ,  Advanced programming (5+)
  • Intro to Arduino - Introduction to electronics through Arduino, DIY maker activities, C programming (5+) 
  • Fractal Robots  -  Design & construct robot plotters, learn basic fractal math and programming (6+ Admittance by instructor)
  • Projects Group  - Small team/individual projects  with design, construction and programming. (5+ Admittance by instructor)
  • Robot Olympics -  Design/build robots: fastest, strongest, steepest climb, most accurate, etc. prior experience (4-8)
  • Robots, Math & Art  -  Investigate some of the interesting ways math is used.  Methods include robotics, Scratch programming, geometric constructions, and fractal plotters, prior experience, grades (4-7)
  • Scratch Programming -  Introduction to computer programming using the Scratch language, block-icon based (3-5)
  • Intro to Python - Computer programming with Python, a great introduction to text based programming (5+)
  • Tank Bots -  Design/build tank specific robots, prior experience, grades (4-8)
  • Walker Bots -  Design/build walking specific robots, prior experience, grades (4-8)
  • Mecanum Bots  -  Design, build & program mecanum wheel robots.  Challenging programming (5+)

Summer 2020 Weekly Schedule   (sample only)

Scratch & Python                  group                 Tuesday                 3:20 to 5:20
EV3 L1                                         group                 Wednesday        2:15 to 4:15
Mecanum Bots                       group                 Wednesday        4:30 to 6:30 
EV3 L1                                         group                 Thursday             3:20 to 5:20
Intro to Arduino                    group                 Thursday             5:35 to 7:35
RoboCup                                   group                  Friday                   3:20 to 5:20