South Washington County Schools Community Education

From a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars comes to life! Work on a stop motion animated Lego Star Wars Movie. Pick your characters to star in your own mini-movie ...the possibilities are endless. Star Wars action figures, Legos and backdrops will be available for filming in class. Handle all of the technical details including using a digital movie camera, filming scenes, stop-motion animation, digital editing and adding finishing special effects and transitions to the movie. In this exciting hands-on learning class, our instructors will take your student through the entire digital film making steps from start to finish using Frames Software. Students work in pairs to complete projects.

Chess is fun. Schoolhouse Chess camp is super fun as it brings the game of chess to life using creative personalities. You will be captivated by our imaginative characters and learn chess with ease. Play a game with our gigantic chess set – the biggest you have ever seen! The camp covers all the rules, strategies and tactics and is appropriate for beginners through intermediate players. 

Tech Academy Battle Royale inspired by Fortnite! Join us for an exciting week of game coding! Create your own battle royale game for you and your friends to drop in to. Customize the map, set your characters, and create upgrades to scatter across the world by learning coding and game design. Use your skills to achieve a Victory Royale

Code is Sport. Just like gymnastics, dance, or basketball, competitive coding pushes us to be great. Build a computer bot to play head-to-head against other coders! Students will be broken into sections based on age for competitive and fair play. This camp is for those 15 and under. Whether this is your first time at a Code Championship event, or if you're preparing for the Minnesota Code Championship, this weeklong bootcamp is the perfect way to explore the competitive coding world of Code Championship. No previous coding experience necessary. Please come knowing how to navigate the internet (basic typing and mouse control) and a passion to work hard and have fun! You can even bring your own computer mouse if you want!

Code is Sport. Just like gymnastics, dance, or basketball, competitive coding pushes us to be great. Build a computer bot to play head-to-head against other coders! Students will be broken into sections based on age for competitive and fair play. This camp is for those 12 and under. Whether this is your first time at a Code Championship event, or if you're preparing for the Minnesota Code Championship, this week long bootcamp is the perfect way to explore the competitive coding world of Code Championship. No previous coding experience necessary. Please come knowing how to navigate the internet (basic typing and mouse control) and a passion to work hard and have fun! You can even bring your own computer mouse if you want!

Minecraft is a sandbox building game, that’s been dominating the world of video gaming for the past few years. Collaborate with fellow students to construct a city! Students will take home their completed world file at the end of class. Beginners and experienced Minecrafters alike will love this action packed camp!

Don’t just play Fortnite, learn the game engine used to create the game! This class explores designing and building your own creative ideas. Make your own scenery and landscape using Fortnite inspired assets. It is recommended for kids taking this class to have typing skills, and mouse skills. No Fortnite Gaming in this camp.

Stimulate your child's creativity by designing and building epic, solar-powered cars, robots and machines from easy to assemble parts. In addition, your child will build solar powered cranes, lift bridges, and many other designs. Let your little engineers explore the world of solar energy while learning how to probem solve and stretch the imagination. Take home a mini solar car. For more details visit GoSolarKidz.com/Summer-Camps

Can you outwit the Mad Science Spy? James Bond’s gadgets weren’t all science fiction. Discover the science behind some real spy technology as you listen to distant voices and sounds. Learn about different secret codes, their use in clandestine communications and a little of the history behind them. Experiment passing your messages using a spy technique called a “dead drop”. Build an alarm system, a secret safe and attempt to defeat several security systems. 

The sun is your best friend if you know how to use it! This class teaches how to cook with just the sun. Solar cooking bypasses the traditional cooking means. No electricity, gas, charcoal or wood needed for solar cooking. Students will learn how to cook meals, dry food for preservation and purify water all with the sun. In the end, students will build their own sun oven and water heater they can take home. For more details visit GoSolarKidz.com/Summer-Camps

Build it, program it, play with it and learn from it using LEGO® Mindstorms WeDo software and LEGO® bricks! Students will build race cars, a forklift, boat and more, then program them to complete various tasks.In this {YEL!} summer camp, students are challenged to build, test, program and modify multiple projects, then use those projects to investigate basic robotics concepts as well as introductory computer coding.Restrain summer brain drain, sign up today.Visit YouthEnrichmentLeague.com for sample pictures and more information. LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this site or program.

Unravel your child’s millionaire mind set and passion for entrepreneurship! This fun filled hands-on camp provides your child key business ideas and strategies through experiential activities and creative play. They leave having enjoyed a fun-filled, action packed week while learning important life-lessons, too. Through marketing, sales and finance games and activities your child will learn how to bring a business concept into reality. Kids make “Entrepreneur Bucks” throughout the camp, earn interest and turn the money they make into exciting prizes, which they'll love. The camp includes fun games and STEM activities as well.Whether your child is a born entrepreneur or an entrepreneur in the making, this camp will offer invaluable skills for their success in life – both in and outside the business world.Take the lemonade stand to the next level! Create exciting products. Gain life skills. Get challenged with STEM games. Earn “Entrepreneur Bucks” and buy real prizes.

Let the battles begin! Designed by the experts at MIT, Lego Wedo Robotics’ unique system teaches students about simple machines, engineering, programming and so much more. In this camp, students will construct a Catapult, Ninja Star, Tank, Battle Axe, Crossbow, Battering Ram, and Fighter Plane and more! Students work in pairs to complete projects.

Students will learn to use Unity, a powerful game engine and programming suite used by professionals and indie game developers. This object-oriented program is fun and challenging as students discover the art of video game design. Students will learn the basics of making objects and characters that move and react in a virtual world. Students will learn the principles of game mechanics and game physics, and they’ll use tools, systems, and assets to bring their games to life.

Unmask your child's creativity this summer in the all-new Camp Invention program, Launched, where children build confidence, learn to collaborate and transform their wild imaginations into epic creations. Campers in grades K-6 will learn creative problem-solving skills while designing duct tape products, Spy Gadget Alarm boxes and other inventions, and competing in friendly air battles with aerodynamic water rockets. Local educators will lead this action -packed program featuring exhilarating, hand-on STEM activities teaching children to question, explore, break through obstacles and embrace failure!

Are you interested in building and driving robots? At the East Ridge Robotics Camp you will learn collaborative, STEM, and design skills while building, programming and operating a robot with fellow campers similar to the competition robot of the East Ridge High School robotics team. For more information about high school robotics visit the team’s website athttp://www.error3130.org.

If you love legos, making things move, building and experimenting - this class is for you. Learn about engineering and the physical science principles behind different action machines. Working in teams, students will build crazy wheeled and geared contraptions that spring into action. Have fun while you learn the principles of mechanical engineering and simple machines. Students work in pairs to complete projects. Make tops, spinners, zip lines, rubber band powered cars, crimping cars and other crazy contraptions. 

All levels welcome. Youth Enrichment League’s {YEL!} summer chess camp works with all levels of students. Beginners learn Piece Movement, Capturing, Check, Checkmate, Castling and more; returning students study intermediate lessons (Pins, Forks, Back Rank Mates, as examples); advanced students will study Elimination of Defense, Opening Theory and other advanced concepts. Our summer camps are fun, fast-paced and packed with information. Battle summer brain drain and procure the necessary tools to beat your dad at chess! Sign up today! Visit YELKids.com for more information.

Join the East Ridge Robotics team and learn how fun STEM can be. Through a variety of hands on activities, the high school students and their mentors will teach elementary age kids about the world of science, technology engineering and math.

New Class! Students working on individual computers will be introduced to object-oriented programming and elements of the Java language while learning to code their text-based RPG (Roleplaying Game). No programming experience is necessary, but familiarity with doing common tasks using a computer operating system (text-editing and understanding directory structures) and keyboarding is required.