Eden Prairie Community Education

Bring your imagination to life. Become a master bricklayer and use our special architectural LEGO® kits to build your creations. Be an architect as you learn the principles of construction. The main goal of the course is to introduce the concept of 3 dimensions and their role in design. Working in teams, students will construct buildings, structures, towers, castles, and more. Students will learn construction principles and use math skills as they experiment with scale and size, staggering vs. stacking bricks, and more. We’ll build houses with removable roofs, castles with turrets, and towers of strength! It might just be impossible to exhaust the creative potential of LEGO® bricks. With an active imagination as your guide, there are endless possibilities. Students will be working in pairs.

Printing and Material Fee included. This 3D printing camp takes students through the 3D printing process from start to finish. Students will design 3D objects using TinkerCAD and use the 3D slicing program Cura to bring their creations to life. From industrial design and manufacturing to software and hardware engineering, the 3D printing industry is booming. This course serves as an excellent introduction to 3D printing and is ideal for students who like to draw, design, imagine and see their creations come to life.

Using the latest WeDo 2.0 system that LEGO has to offer, ignite the STEM spark in your child with this amazing camp. We are passionate about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math and want to instill this in your child too. Fostering their natural curiosity, kids, working in pairs, will explore logic, pattern recognition, and math concepts as they are challenged to build increasingly sophisticated designs. As they do so, they'll also develop basic programming techniques using custom-made programming blocks in PCs. They will have hands-on experience effectively using gears, axles, and connector blocks in the robotic challenges. (No LEGO is taken home).

Why is it that launching something into the air is so entertaining? We don't know the answer to that, but we do know how to lauch a projectile and control its trajectory! Join us for a week of rockets and catapults and potential energy!! Students will build and test a variety of launchers as they learn about the science behind them all!

Create the sweetest memories this Summer in this exhilarating STEAM camp! It’s time to have delicious fun as you discover the amazing science behind your favorite sweets as we mix up totally awesome experiments and design packing for your creations. Have a blast as we create tasty Gummy Bears, mix up yummy edible slime, and so much more! As you do, learn about the science and chemistry of food as well as super interesting STEAM concepts. We’ll make it even sweeter with other exciting activities. Not for kids with food allergies. Wear clothes that can get messy.

Discover this groundbreaking technology as you have a blast learning to code drones AND to program an exhilarating drone inspired Video game and enjoy fun STEAM challenges. Also know as UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles), kids in small teams code a drone to obey their every command. Have a blast as you develop a flight plan so the drone goes through loops and turns to reach the objective. THEN learn to code an action packed drone inspired video game to take home. More fun activities included. A great camp to get introduced to the amazing world of flight and coding. Please bring a USB Flash drive to save your projects.

Hack into the code of classic games! Students will learn Java coding skills while modifying games such as Asteroids, Tetris, Snake, and more! Coding beginners and more experienced students will love this class. This class requires basic keyboarding skills; bringing a flash drive to save code is recommended.

Computer Science for Kids, our camp takes a game-based learning approach to learning. Students should be able to type, use a mouse, and be comfortable using a computer. Our students use and type actual Python code while playing and making a game from beginning to end! Our engaging curriculum challenges students to embrace and learn from mistakes.

Learn film editing basics and how to use Hollywood-style special effects techniques. Possible special effects learned in class include animated lasers, Harry Potter’s Invisible cloak, custom Star War-like light swords, pulp sci-fi crawl, Thor’s lightning hammer, or hyperdrive effects. Groups' final projects will be emailed to parents, or students may bring a USB jump drive on the last day. Student photography releases must be signed for this class.

In a camp full of twists and turns... are you ready to fulfill your mission? Search for clues, solve puzzles, and engineer creative solutions to fun problems before your time runs out! Have a blast this summer as you decipher secret messages, deduce clues and overcome STEM-focused challenges so you can “escape: The Island.” This camp is full of exhilarating challenges and and also non-escape room related activities.

If you are looking for the most thrilling, out of this world adventure this summer, then this camp is totally for you! Imagine - your mission is stuck on a newly explored planet and you now need to figure out how to return to Earth! Your path back leads you to solve fun clues and STEAM challenges. Build a rower, design an extension arm, create a light up constellation map, and ultimately, once you collected all clues, launch your own rocket! Explore space like never before in this action packed camp!

The Ministry of Magic is inviting all aspiring wizards to this extraordinary camp. Each day, students participate in engineering challenges to earn points for their houses like creating the farthest-reaching Golden Snitch Launcher and the fastest Gringott Cart to reach the vaults. At the end of the week, the house with the most points is awarded the house cup, a great honour!

Dive into more advanced computer science topics that include artificial intelligence and Machine Learning. Computers are getting smarter every day due to advances in machine learning algorithms. Coders can teach computers to recognize faces, play games, and find patterns. We will create a chatbot, Rock, Paper, Scissors game, and more in our class. Bring a USB drive to save your games on the last day.

This camp will energize and excite students by combining the LEGO building system’s versatility and the Mindstorms EV3 (the most sophisticated microcomputer brick ever made by LEGO). Working each day in teams, students will construct fun LEGO models, experiment with programs, and compete in robotic challenges. Robot building, block programming, and teamwork will be part of each day’s activities. Final challenges will be centered around hitting targets and a sumo battle. Students will be working in small teams of 2-3.

Exciting class with new builds and challenges! Take your engineering skills to a higher level. Students will be using the EV3 Mindstorm Robotics Systems and special LEGO® Technic™ engineering components to build extreme, competitive robots. Build remote-controlled robots inspired by the popular Discovery Channel’s “BattleBots.” Students will be challenged to morph their projects into better, stronger, and faster robots to compete in a tournament on the last day. Students will be working in small teams of 2-3.

Do you like buzzers? Speakers? LED lights? In this electrifying camp we’ll use all of them to engineer outrageously fun toys and contraptions. As you do, learn about circuits and the power of electricity. Take home tons of fun, ELECTRIC toys that you build your own and earn the title of Master Toymaker. This camp also includes other fun activities as well!

This class gives students a look at game development and puts them in the driver’s seat of simple game creation. Students in this course will develop online games including arcade style, platform and other interactive games that they can publish and share. Students will also use their games in an eSport setting and complete like real gamers.

Are you a girl who wants to dive deeper into the world of math and science? This class is for you! Girls will discover themselves and be amazed by what they can do through engaging STEM activities. With hands-on experiences, fun games, and science challenges, girls will become STEM girlbosses by the end of the week! This class is sponsored by the ionSTEM nonprofit organization, started and run by Eden Prairie High School students. With the help of grant funding, this class is offered free of cost.

Back by popular demand! Join us at this glitz and glam camp and make your own Fizzy Bath Bombs, Shimmering Lip Balm, Soaps, Shower Dough, Glam Goo, Exfoliating Salt Scrub, and many more fun science experiments! In this camp where science meets glam you and your besties will have a blast concocting all type of beauty and bath products and more while you learn the science behind them all. Add a pinch of imagination as you create super cool packages and more to take home your very personal creations.