3D Design & PRINTING Lab with Lego, Tinkercad & Minecraft

Let’s get hands-on to create a green future with 3D printing pens, Lego bricks, Tinkercad computer aided design, and the immersive world of Minecraft. We’ll imagine and build water filtering mountains, building-top amusement parks, wind turbine farms, and underground, pollution free public transportation and fill those landscapes and structures with heroes and scenes from your favorite stories, movies, and games in this creative, hands-on introduction to 3D design, engineering, and problem-solving. 

We’ll prototype our ideas in playdough, design foam, modeling clay, and 3D printing pens. And we’ll import our favorite 3D designs block by block into our own coded Minecraft worlds. From subways to rooftops, villages to castles, spaceships to future worlds, we’ll imagine it and build it together. If you dream of exploring, crafting stories, building landscapes, and creating heroic characters, join us to bring your wildest world-changing ideas to life.

Skills Learned: Creative Arts, Hands-On Engineering, 3D Design & Printing, Minecraft Engineering & Coding, LEGO, Animation, Story Crafting PICS.

My First Code With Scratch Jr. NEW!

Coding is the new literacy! Budding coders will be introduced to fundamental concepts in computational thinking and computer science through this fun-first, hands-on, play-based projects. Focusing on communication, play, exploration and using our imaginations. We’ll create worlds full of mountains, rivers, forest, animals and bots in this fun-first, art and animation-filled introduction to coding and 3D design. 

We’ll program our own interactive stories and games in a fun combination of Scratch Jr, Kodu and/or CodeClubWorld. We’ll even enjoy a fun introduction to Python. We’ll also be creating playful “maniFESTive” art that pays kindness and positivity to the community through painted rocks, kindness flyers, secret garden gems, and chalk art inspirations! In the process, we’ll learn to solve problems, design projects and express ourselves creatively on the computer. Screen time can be creative, fun, learning time. Let’s code!

Skills Develop: Animation, Coding , Computational Thinking, Creative Arts, Game Design, 3D Design, Story Crafting, Social-Emotional Skills.