Eden Prairie Community Education

Create YOUR OWN VIDEO GAME! Love video games? Students as young as five years old can create their own platform video games in this cool class! Choose your storyline with popular Nintendo characters as your stars. Add challenges and difficulty levels, then share your game by email or post it on the web to challenge family and friends. Now 5-8-year-olds can practice math, logic, and programming and put their video game talents to work! Bring a USB drive on the last day.

Have a blast using LEGO® Technics Engineering Kits to explore the world of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in a team-based environment. Students working in pairs will be exploring engineering principles such as gears, wheels, levers, and pulleys during each session. Then we will build working theme park rides and machines that reinforce concepts learned. After each building project, students will customize, share, compete in challenges, and enjoy experimenting with their creations. Possible models include Catapult Games, Crazy Floors, Merry-Go-Rounds, Go-Karts, Moving Clowns, Popcorn Carts, and more.

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Let's go visit our friends in the bottom of the ocean and learn about marine life. Explore saltwater density, learn about beach erosion, make sand slime, save the coral reef and more! Join us for a week of fun and adventure where everyone goes home an ocean lover!

We are passionate about inspiring an interest in engineering! This hands-on experience is a perfect introduction to science concepts like structural engineering, architectural design, physics, external forces, and more! Students will move through advanced building exercises to learn the complexities of designing structures and investigate the impact of external forces. Students will follow step-by-step builds in this camp and then test their new skills with open-ended building challenges and design projects. Students will be working in pairs.

It’s adventure time in Minecraft and time to learn to Mod Minecraft! Using Minecraft EDU, in this camp you’ll learn the ins and outs of creating a custom adventure map, programming teleporters and using WordEdit to instantly create massive structures. You’ll also explore awesome mods such as industrial craft and Parzi’s SW Mod to create automated factories, working vehicles and a jet pack! Learn to use custom tools to create your own unique skins. An immersive camp for both beginner and advanced Minecraft fans.

Dig deep and get exploring in puzzle-filled maps in this Minecraft camp! Using Minecraft EDU, you’ll learn how to use redstone mechanisms and programmed commands in order to create the perfect Minecraft Escape Map. You’ll design fun puzzles, engineering traps to trick your friends, and even -make hidden rooms to hide your treasure! By the end of this class, you will be able to show off your new adventure mapping, redstone, and command skills to your friends. No advanced Minecraft knowledge required.

Don't just play Minecraft! Turn Minecraft from a game into a visual learning tool! This class will reinforce problem-solving skills and spatial cognition through learning to create in-game dungeons and treasure maps. This class has a strong emphasis on creativity, exploration, and cooperative learning experiences. While immersed in Minecraft’s fun and creative world, students will learn about programming and game design concepts. We will be using the PC/Java Edition of Minecraft. Bring a USB drive on the last day.

Become the architect of mini-game battle arenas! Build your own spleef arena, capture the flag base, king of the hill stadium, or one of many more mini-games, then challenge your friends! Battle it out against friends and compete to win challenges! Create tons of mini-games with all of your friends! Students will get a copy of the world map to take home and expand on. We will be using the PC/Java Edition of Minecraft. Bring a USB drive to save your games on the last day.

Unleash your creativity as you work collaboratively! Create a world with others in four unique, themed quadrants. Build different biomes, or base a section on your favorite movie or video game! Meld your quadrants together with bridges, and separate them with moats of water, lava, or even the void! Students will get a copy of the world map to take home and expand on. We will be using the PC/Java Edition of Minecraft. Bring a USB drive to save your game on the last day.

Let the Games begin! Designed by the experts at M.I.T., LEGO WeDo Robotics’ unique system teaches students about simple machines, engineering, programming, and so much more. Students will be taught foundational building and introduced to programming concepts about the Sensors, Motors, and Special Technics components. Working in small teams, students will build and program smart robots based on popular games: Angry Birds, Chutes and Ladder, Hockey, Just Dance, Pinball, Duck Hunt, and more! Students will be working in pairs.

Designed by the experts at MIT, this unique system teaches children about simple machines, engineering, programming, and so much more. The LEGO® Education WeDo Robotics Builder class allows students to explore different concepts in robotics. Possible models may include Scuba Driver, Clown Fish, Bathyscope, Sea Gulls, Submarine, and more. Your students will build LEGO® models featuring working motors, tilt sensors, motion detectors, and a LEGO® USB Robotics Hub. Students will be working in pairs.

Explore different STEAM technologies in our new, unique girls-only camp. With topics ranging from circuits and engineering to coding and art, girls will become part of the maker movement. Our dynamic curriculum and hands-on projects will empower and inspire girls to express their own creativity. Possible projects include LED paper circuit cards, robotic creatures, digital animations, and mechanical creations. Bring a USB drive to save your animations and coding on the last day.

Join us for some really cool and exciting science experiments! Throughout the week, your student will participate in different science activities and experiments. Come channel your inner scientist!

Designed by the experts at MIT, this unique system teaches students about simple machines, engineering, programming, and so much more. Working in pairs, students will create Star Wars and space-inspired robots. This course builds knowledge of simple machines, engineering, programming, and teamwork in an environment full of galactic fun! Models include AT-ST Biped, Spinning Tie Fighter, Cannons, and other out-of-this-world models. Students will be working in pairs.

If building with LEGO is your thing (perhaps you are a master LEGO builder?!), this will be an unforgettable camp for you as you take your building skills to next level! 1. On your marks: Thinker and design the fastest RC car. 2.Set: Build a remote control car using LEGO®. 3.GO! Race your car against friends! Besides building amazing RC cars this camp includes other super fun activities! (No LEGO® is taken home).

We will visit many forms of transportation and their uses. On land: vehicles, buses and trains! In the water: boats, ships and submarines! In the air: planes, hot air balloons, blimps and shuttles! The use of math, science, and the creative arts will be used to bring this theme to life and make for a fun and educational experience.