Lego Robotics: Playgineering – Bring Your Own Legos Design & Construction
Playgineering with Legos! Rolling enrollment – Full Term, Monthly and Drop In options Grab a bucket full, or at least a few hundred Legos or forty Duplo Legos and join us as we Playgineer – explore thinking like engineers! We’ll have blast building together with all kinds of Legos, and all kinds of other supplies and materials too! These hands-on, online classes use the Engineer’s Process to focus students’ understanding through imagining and constructing scenes and stories that go with our mechanized models; so creating a bakery to go with the mixer model made in Fungineering,...
Read MoreLego Robotics: Fungineering for AGES 3-7 and 8-12
Fungineering with Technic Legos! Level 1 Rolling enrollment – Full Term, Monthly and Drop In options Making Legos move! We provide the Supply Sets of Technic Lego® components for building mechanized robotics models of real-world devices. These hands-on, online classes use a customized Supply Set of Technic Lego® components that we ship to you, and the Engineer’s Process to focus students’ understanding of engineering and robotics through an exploration of design, basic mechanization, simple and complex gearing, locomotion, energy, law of physics and more. Students get to thoroughly...
Read MoreHistory of Music: Music Appreciation for Teens
In this class we will listen to all kinds of music from Beach Boys to Billie Eilish, from Brahms to the Beastie Boys, from Puerto Rican Salsa to Oklahoman Western Swing! We will critically listen to musical form, instrumentation, recording techniques, lyrics, and emotional elements. We will discuss the music’s background and historical situation which led to its creation. A focus will be to compare different songs, genres, and artists and to discover what makes them the same and different. We will find that the student doesn’t have to “like” all music they hear...
Read MoreHigh School Literature for Teens
This course focuses on literature from the Middle Ages through the Victorian era. Course readings have included works such as Robin hood, Time Traveler, and Around the World in 80 days. Winter 2021 Exploring Medieval Europe through literature, lecture and discussion – including the role in medieval society, the fall of the Roman Empire, the rise of Christianity in Europe, and feudalism with a particular focus on England, Scotland, and France. Fall 2020 Jules Verne and Victorian Society – Jules Verne is best known today for his science fiction adventure novels, many of which...
Read MorePhilosophy for Teens
What is the foundation for a happy life? We will look at two schools of practice, Mindfulness and Stoicism, to experiment for ourselves. By comparing east and west, we will find core resonance between these approaches to life. Each focuses on virtue as essential, and each establishes peace and calm as a basis for flourishing. We will reflect on the role of emotions and perceptions, and how to question the stories our mind gives us. Most of all, we will discuss between ourselves how to make these philosophies relevant to our everyday lives. Click here to...
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