South Washington County Schools Community Education

{YEL!} offers free weekly chess tournaments using ChessKid.com. These are open to any current or former YEL student with a ChessKid.com account. Thursdays, 1-3 pm

A Club full of surprises! With 100+ projects from imazing, Summer is a great time for fantastic adventures and to learn fun, new, and different things! Kids love hands-on learning, that’s why we have created this amazing program with super fun, creative, mind-challenging projects -where kids learn by doing. With over 100 projects, ranging from STEM, to Art, to Art & Yoga and much more, the imazing Creative Fun Cub is a great program by itself or addition to camps kids are already taking –a great way to have fun, enriching activities at home! Explore activities with your child! While we design the projects in a kid-friendly way, projects come in a varying degree of difficulty, and children have varying degree of skills. The Club offers many projects where most kids can work on their own, while other projects need parent’s help. This is a great opportunity to spend some quality time with your kids. Video instructions.We make it super easy for your kids to learn while having fun. Just go to your library, select the project, get the materials ready, and click play. Essential materials usually found at home. Many of our projects use everyday supplies, either found at home or easy to buy like paper, pencils, erasers, markers, straws, toothpicks, foam board… Many projects are also accompanied instructions or templates you might need to print or cut out ahead of time. Creative materials –for creative minds.To take kids’ creativity to the next level, we make an effort to use materials that don’t require special production processes but are already available at home and in stores.This opens up the kids’ imagination and teaches them to be resourceful, finding supplies in the world around them. Convenient –ready when you are. All the lessons are ready to go when your family is. No adhering to a strict class schedule –just visit our website with your own unique code that we will send you and the lesson will be waiting for you to start.

Have a blast exploring amazing projects that will light up the night.This one-of-a-kind,program includes a wide variety of projects, from super cool Science and Engineering challenges, to outrageously fun Art projects. All the lessons are ready to go when your family is.No adhering to a strict class schedule –just visit the website and the lesson will be waiting for you to explore with your child! Full list of projects: Explore fluorescent light discoveries. Fly a cool spooky glowing bat. Explore the secret of a magic firefly garden. Create a surprising mini crossbow. Engineer a simple centrifugal water pump. 2 fun science experiments. Jelly Fish Art. "Calaverita" Art. Online content available for one month access after first login. Pick up essential project materials at the District Program Center or register to have them mailed to you. Simple materials usually found at home or easily found at stores are required

In this camp, we will be creating custom armor, items, and blocks. Learn to mod Minecraft using Java and the Forge API and customize your gaming experience. Students will be introduced to coding concepts and learn how to use Eclipse, a professional tool for editing and debugging code. Students should be comfortable with keyboarding, and, of course, playing Minecraft ! Home Technical Requirements For Class: - Computer: PC (Windows XP or later) or Mac (OSX) with at least a 2GHz processor and 4GB of RAM - Internet: Broadband internet with at least 1.5Mbps download and 600Kbps upload speeds. - Webcam - Microphone and Speakers - Google Meet or Zoom Video Conferencing * Minecraft Java Edition, Eclipse Tech Academy will provide tutorial videos for all of the classes to help parents/students set up their PCs and workspace at home.

Discover the exciting world of App development. In this camp, students will be introduced to the MIT App Inventor program. They’ll design their own custom apps using block based programming, and will be introduced to basic programming concepts such as parameters, variables, loops, and control flow and much more. This course will be taught online using Zoom. •Basic Windows and keyboarding skills required. •Download the program we’ll work with (Instructional video shared) •High-speed internet access

Learn the game played by kings, queens, presidents, and laureates for centuries. Chess benefits student's focus, sportsmanship, problem solving, mental fortitude, and more. Co-hosted by National Chess Master and former state champion Nathan Hoover, YEL Online Chess Lessons are immersive, engaging, and rich with content. Seats are limited, so sign up soon! We suggest participants have a computer with a microphone and speakers, high speed internet, a ChessKid.com account (email us if you need one). We’ll be using ChessKid.com as well as chess.com for lesson analysis. Students will also be invited to participate in free online chess tournaments using ChessKid.com.

We are excited to bring our NEW internationally acclaimed Online STEM learning program taught in 40+ countries by e2 Young Engineers, a Europe based company and recognized by Harvard and Carnegie Mellon school. This is a problem based, spiral learning Online class where your child learns about new STEM concepts in every class and applies that concepts by building operational models using patented kits. This approach makes learning fun, and easy to retain for the child. Please visit our website for additional details: https://easttwincities.e2youngengineers.com/ During the class we will use Zoom video conferencing to connect with your child. Your child will be ‘loaned’ e2 Young Engineers’ kit. The kit will be with you for the duration of the program. Students will learn new STEM concepts and build a new model in every class which includes multiple amusement park rides, machines, robots, cars and other complex models. MANDATORY: All our kits will be disinfected and sanitized per CDC and County guidelines and it stays with the student for the duration of the program. There will be a $100 deposit (credit card hold) on your account which will be refunded once the kits are returned.

For students with a basic grasp of chess piece movement, capturing, check, and checkmate, but not ready for higher level lessons. We will be studying tactics like pins, skewers, discovered and double checks, back rank mates and more. Seats are limited, so sign up soon! We suggest participants have a computer with a microphone and speakers, high speed internet, a ChessKid.com account (email us if you need one). We’ll be using ChessKid.com as well as chess.com for lesson analysis. Students will also be invited to participate in free online chess tournaments using ChessKid.com.

Learn basic and intermediate coding techniques with Scratch®. Students will be introduced to the vital field of coding and learn how to use movement blocks, loops, control blocks, and other basic coding for animation. Students will be given a Scratch® user account. More details will be sent on how to join the class. Students can share their code online with other Scratch kiddos, and they can keep it in their own account. Seats are limited, so sign up today!

The YEL Online Intermediate and Advanced Chess Lessons Series will focus opening variations, endgame practice, move by move analysis and more. Co-hosted by National Chess Master and former state champion Nathan Hoover, YEL Online Chess Lessons are immersive, engaging, and rich with content. Seats are limited, so sign up soon! We suggest participants have a computer with a microphone and speakers, high speed internet, a ChessKid.com account (email us if you need one). We’ll be using ChessKid.com as well as chess.com for lesson analysis. Students will also be invited to participate in free online chess tournaments using ChessKid.com.