Name: Astronaut Arts: Terraforming Sustainable Worlds
Start: 2024-07-15T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-07-19T15:00:00-04:00
Location: 120 W 69th St

Astronaut Arts: Terraforming Sustainable Worlds with Micro:bit Robotics, Makey Makey & Roblox Game Studio
About this Event
Class Experience

We’re launching into hands-on rocket design, sustainable space exploration, and planet terraforming in this introduction to NASA engineering. We’re building plant-powered lights, DIY electromagnets, and a freshwater filtration system, with recyclable paper planet models (e). We’ll create our spirit animal pet, build and automate shelters and farms, build green transport systems, and cultivate alternative fuels in the Roblox Game Studio, and build, mod, and control our rovers vehicles and satellites with the Microbit microcontroller. Along the way, we’ll discover how to cultivate and sustain life on far-flung planets. And learn some important things about what it takes to build a sustainable life for all beings here on earth. From clean water to sustainable farming and industry to green space travel, it’s fun to build a better world for all.

All About Hands-On

Every day of STEM Camp brings new hands-on STEAM projects, creativity, discovery, games, and lots of outdoor play! Every week of STEM Camp features hands-on STEAM crafts and introductions/skill-building in Scratch coding and 3D design. Games include: Capture the Flag Laser Tag, Water Balloon Olympics, soccer shootout, mafia, escape the room, red light green light, Scavenger Hunts!

Your Favorite Characters & Stories

We’ll create daily projects inspired by our favorite characters and stories from Disney, Lego, Marvel, and Pixar and games like Pokemon, Mario, Bed Wars, Geometry Dash, Animal Crossing, and Among Us. And we’ll create lifetime memories with our daily camp traditions like DJ Playlist Day, Rainbow True Colors Day, and Hero Day.

Earn Badges & Challenge Coins

We’ll take on daily Quest Challenges by joining Team Fiero or Team Flow, seeking our personal best, with help from new friends. We’ll work on the hero within as we earn Challenge sticker badge achievements for our Character Cards for every project we create like Courage, Problem Solver, Upstander and Changemaker.

Learn & Grow

Creative collaboration gives us opportunities for social emotional development and confidence building. Project problem-solving helps us practice executive functioning skills like decision-making, organization, patience, and self-awareness. (STEAM: science, tech, engineering, arts, math)

Keep the fun going!

Included with all STEM Camp registrations:

$100 off Builder Birthday Party–regularly starting at $550–$450 with camp registration.
Try out for and join a Youth eSports League eSports Team (YES League) at your school or community-based team!
Create and compete in hand-made video games in the monthly YES League Tournament!
Enter the Scratch Coding Challenge and show off your work at STEMcon!

Earn the official AIdeator Badge for the creation of a responsible AI program that helps ensure inclusion, justice, or sustainability.

What you'll learn