Description
STEAMwhiz’s Minecraft STEM Summer Camp
Dive into 30 hours of thrilling and transformative learning that will elevate your students’ creative problem-solving skills through engaging, project-based Minecraft activities, meticulously designed by our expert early education curriculum developers.
This is an unparalleled opportunity for students to enrich their knowledge through dynamic and captivating educational experiences tailored for young thinkers! Click on each week below to discover the inspiring learning objectives and innovative projects that await you this summer!
Maze Craze
Minecraft Robotics Adventure
June 16-20 | 1:00-4:00 PM
Challenge
Get ready for an exciting challenge that blends the digital and physical worlds! Your mission is to create captivating mazes in both Minecraft and the real world using various materials. Once your intricate pathways are built, you’ll engineer and code a robot to navigate through these thrilling structures. How will you craft each maze to ensure it’s both fun and challenging? What clever programming will guide your robot through these innovative landscapes? Dive into this epic adventure and let your creativity shine!
Project Highlights
Minecraft Maze Designing & Building
Physical Maze Construction
Robot Navigation Challenges with Coding
1. Maze Design Principles
Objective: Explore fundamental concepts related to maze design, including layout, complexity, and navigation.
Outcome: Understand key design principles to create engaging and challenging mazes in both Minecraft and the physical world.
2. Virtual Design Construction in Minecraft
Objective: Apply design principles to create detailed and imaginative mazes in the Minecraft game environment.
Outcome: Showcase understanding of virtual construction, spatial awareness, and creativity by successfully building and navigating mazes in Minecraft.
3. Introduction to Robotics Coding
Objective: Gain basic coding skills, focusing on the programming language relevant to the robot platform being used, such as visual block-based languages and Python.
Outcome: Understand the relationship between code and robot behavior and learn to program simple commands for navigating mazes.
Robotic Engineers
Obstacle Course Adventure
June 23-27 | 1:00-4:00 PM
Challenge
Ready to unleash your creativity and engineering skills? Join our exciting camp where you’ll design and program a robot to navigate an obstacle course! Discover the fundamentals of robotics and learn to use sensors for obstacle detection. Then, challenge yourself as you program your robot for success. In the world of Minecraft, you’ll create a parkour course to test your friends. Embrace the roles of both engineer and coder, merging physical and digital design to bring your innovative ideas to life. Don’t miss this chance to turn your imagination into reality!
Project Highlights
Obstacle-Avoiding Robot
Sensor Integration Lab
Minecraft Parkour Course Design
1. Introduction to Robotic Engineering
Objective: Learn the fundamental concepts of robotic engineering, including the basic components and functions of a robot.
Outcome: Participants will be able to identify and explain the key components of a robot, such as motors, sensors, and controllers.
2. Designing and Building an Obstacle-Avoiding Robot
Objective: Apply the knowledge of robotic engineering and sensors to design and build a robot that can avoid obstacles.
Outcome: Participants will successfully design, build, and program a robot that can navigate through an obstacle course, demonstrating their understanding of robotic engineering and sensor integration.
3. Minecraft Parkour Course Design
Objective: Learn how to design and create a parkour/obstacle course in Minecraft to challenge friends.
Outcome: Participants will successfully design and build a parkour course in Minecraft, showcasing their creativity and understanding of virtual construction principles.
The STEAM-Team
The lab is overseen by STEAMwhiz’s co-founder and scientist Dr. J who holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences. Dr. J has worked as a physicist at premier U.S. research institutions, as well as an engineer at fortune 500 companies, and authored over a dozen publications in top-tier journals. Allie Pulecio, co-founder and program director, makes up the other half of the STEAM-Team. She is certified in K-6th education, published STEM education work in a peer-reviewed journal, and has over 20 years of classroom experience and curriculum development. Together they are driven by their passion to empower students to develop their analytical and critical thinking, necessary to become creative problem-solvers for the future.
