Edina Community Ed

A super fun afterschool program for future scientists and engineers that introduces kids to cool engineering adventures and amazing discoveries. The program is packed with exciting projects to challenge their creative problem-solving skills and spark kids' love towards STEM. No projects repeated.

Hats, scarfs, blankets and more! Keep yourself warm this year by learning to make your own hat, scarf or blanket. Students will learn basic skills in beginning knitting and crocheting to create a basic project. Tools and materials for knitting will be provided.

Sometimes it is fun to take a break, relax, and have a spa day! In this class, you will learn to have your spa day at home. Learn how to make homemade bath salts, sugar scrubs, salt scrubs, rosewater, lemonade bath bombs, and more.

***Bring a USB drive to save your games on the last day*** Design, develop, and create 3D Virtual Reality environments and characters to make your own 3D games and other virtual reality for projects on Metaverse new platform Hatch. Hatch is an incredibly fun and stimulating way to learn STEM! This class is ideal for individuals who are passionate about technology, coding, and want to explore the limitless possibilities of VR. VR programs can be viewed on most mobile phones, and VR Systems like oculus or google cardboard.

Who loves being fancy? Fancy is for everyone. Turn plain into exquisite. Make blah things something chic. Just add a little fancy...And voila, life's fantastique. Go glamping indoors while being introduced to STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) - build a fort, LED light stick, lipgloss, fancy slime and more in this fun and fabulously fancy camp. On the last day, we'll have a pajama party and enjoy some fancy s'mores!

3D Printing and Minecraft are 2 of the most exciting things around. This class is for students who have no or limited experience with 3D Printing and is ideal for students who like to draw, design and see their creations come to life. Students will be learning the ropes of 3D modeling and printing. They will use TinkerCAD to design basic Minecraft creations from scratch using the Engineering Design Process, and choose 2 to print in class to take home. To allow everyone to print their creations, items may have to be scaled down to allow printing during class times. Students must be comfortable with using a laptop and mouse to design their creations.

Our summer camp program utilizes Minecraft: Education Edition, an educational version of Minecraft specifically designed for classroom use. This camp will focus on CREATIVE mode. In this Minecraft mode, campers explore collaborative creations ranging from nature to city to fantasy story type worlds. We will also explore amusement park creations with mini-game creations, parkour, as well as creating redstone contraptions. Campers will also get a chance to work in teams focusing on building and problem-solving challenges! Requirements: Campers who are enrolled in Edina Public Schools are guaranteed a Minecraft Education account. Students outside of the school district may or may not be able to have an account created for them. Chromebooks are provided for campers to access Minecraft worlds

Our summer camp program utilizes Minecraft: Education Edition, an educational version of Minecraft specifically designed for classroom use. This camp will focus on SURVIVAL mode. Campers will get to explore the skills needed to start with nothing, gradually collect and create materials to help them survive the many challenges in a Minecraft world including the biggest challenge of the End. Campers will also get a chance to work in teams focusing on building and problem-solving challenges! Things to Note: Campers who are enrolled in Edina Public Schools are guaranteed a Minecraft Education account. Students outside of the school district may or may not be able to have an account created for them. Chromebooks are provided for campers to access Minecraft world.

Gizmos & Gadgets are weird, wacky, and super fun – and they are even more fun when you build them yourself! Join us in this super-exciting, super-secret Lab to design, experiment, and build your ultimate collection of extremely cool Gizmos & Gadgets! Create your own rubber band shooter, robotic arm, slingshot rocket, personal fan, and levitating pencil, among many other mind-blowing STEAM projects!

Explore art based on your desired medium! This offering has evolved from the observation that students want some basic “studio time” without the content requirements of “art class”. Here they can explore their own ideas with an expert standing by to help as needed. Instruction will be student directed through inquiry. There will be a material fee included.

Learn to build and launch your own rockets from common materials left over in the recycling bin where you live. Multiple design, building, and recovery techniques will be experimented with. These rockets are cheap to make so it removes the anxiety of “doing it wrong”! Build it and see what happens, within the rules of model rocketry. A rocket launch time is part of the program. Launch equipment is provided.

***Bring a USB drive to save your games on the last day*** Learn to create web pages! Students will learn how to create an HTML web page, learn various HTML tags, and experiment with design, JavaScript, and CSS. No experience is necessary, but familiarity with everyday tasks using a computer operating system (text-editing and understanding directory structures) and good keyboarding skills is required.

Get ready for an exciting journey into the world of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) with our Jr Animal Crossing Engineering Camp! Inspired by the video game "Animal Crossing: New Horizons", you will hunt down insects, fish in the ocean and make friends on your island. Fun, hands-on activities include building shelters, bridges, making tools like shovels and fishing rods and even a light-up bug!

There has been an amazing discovery! Paleontologists have just uncovered a million-year-old dig site that is full of fossils! These fossils include dinosaur bones, imprints, eggs, and more! Your help is needed to excavate these fossils and move them to museums for kids all over the world to learn about. In these lessons, students will learn about engineering, mathematics, dinosaurs and fossils as they work as paleontologists and engineers.

Learn & play some of the latest multi-player Table Top Strategy Games! These include card card games & board games. Introduce yourself to deck building, worker placement, and cooperative games. Participants will have some choice of what they want to learn and play, from Settlers of Catan to Exploding Kittens. We have lots of options! We can always take a break each day and also incorporate games with physical activity as needed.

***Bring a USB drive to save your games on the last day*** Get a great head start in learning how to code as well as learning computer science concepts using one of the fundamental programming languages of professional developers: Python. Its syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than possible in languages such as C++ or Java, making it the perfect coding language for beginners. Python is a text-based language, so students should have good keyboarding and basic computer skills.

This camp is a hands-on product design class emphasizing creative thinking and problem-solving. Students will explore options to find, modify, and prepare 3D files to be brought to life using a 3D printer. By the end of this course, students will become familiar with the workflow and terminology of digital fabrication. We begin learning by designing and printing functional fishing lures, then continue solving design challenges. Printing and material fees are included.

Embark on an extraordinary adventure with Jr Explorers: Wings, Wheels and Sails Camp, where young minds take the helm in a hands-on exploration of the skies, roads, and seas. During this camp, students will get their passports and travel to a new country every day by different means! They will engineer their mode of transportation or tool to aid in transportation daily to get to their destination country. At the end of the week, they will have built several different means to travel by, and have a passport full of culture and all their memories from the week from the places they visited.