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.

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.

Get your adrenaline running this summer with this super exciting camp. Are you intrigued by Drones? Would you like to learn more about this amazing technology? What about learn to fly them and participate in areal races? Learn the science behind flight? Then is camp is for you! Not only will you race drones against your friends, you’ll also learn about model rocketry and pick up how to shoot rockets up to 300 feet and more up into “space”! The camp also includes a “swarm” of fun STEAM projects.

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!

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.

The sun is your best friend if you know how to use it! This class teaches how to cook with just the sun. Solar cooking bypasses traditional cooking means. No electricity, gas, charcoal, or wood needed for solar cooking. Students will learn how to cook meals, dry food for preservation, and purify water all with the sun. In the end, students will build their own mini sun oven and take home a micro green plant.

Stimulate your child's creativity by designing and building epic, solar-powered cars, robots, and machine from easy-to-assemble parts. In addition, your young tikes will build solar powered cranes, lift bridges, and many other designs. Let your little engineers explore the world of solar energy while learning how to problem solve and stretch the imagination.

Up, up and away! Enjoy fun remote-control drones charged from solar power. Your student will build a solar powered charging station for their drone. When their drone runs out of juice, they can simply charge it anywhere outdoors with their solar charging station. Your young tike will have a blast building and using real life tools such as solder ironing, drills, etc. When students are done building, they will challenge other students with their drone. In the end, students will take home a mini drone and their newly built charging station.

Journey to the magical world of Harry Potter and other fantasy lands. Build and program magical theme projects. Young imaginations soar! Students will be taught foundational building and introduced to programming concepts with learning about sensors, motors, and special technics components using the Lego Wedo Systems. Possible projects include Magic Chest, Dragon, Hippogriff, Magic Hat, Magic Carpet, and magical staircase. Students will be working in pairs.

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 your favorite superheroes as your stars. Add challenges and difficulty levels, then share them by email or post them on the web to challenge family and friends. Now young students can practice math, logic, and programming and put their video game talents to work! Bring a jump drive to the last day of class.

Unleash your all-powerful Multi-Tool in this fun, creative class. Students will be introduced to coding concepts and create their very own Multi-Tool that works to destroy almost every block! Students should be comfortable with keyboarding, reading, and playing Minecraft! At the end of the class, take home your Mods to share with family and friends. We will be using the PC/Java Edition of Minecraft. Bring a USB drive to save your creations on the last day.