Themes

Designed by expert curriculum directors. It’s hands-on, using real tools and simple materials to make something extraordinary.
Spark
Grade 1 – 5
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Disruptive Design
Bring your best Minecraft® inspired constructions to life as you build a life-size glow-in-the-dark maze complete with LEDs, black lights and projections. You will create this maze to disrupt the typical experience in the “dark” utilizing basic circuitry and a designed user experience.
- Build interactive art and inventions that can be enjoyed in the “dark.”
- Discover how light changes the “feel” of a space and how you can use that to build all new environments.
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Home Away from Home
Shelter is one of our basic needs, right along with food and water. In this theme, you will be challenged to deconstruct your assumptions of what “shelter” means. By investigating shelters of all sorts, from tipis to igloos to geodesic domes, you will engineer and prototype your own shelters to withstand a whole host of reimagined living environments from Mars to the North Pole.
- Strap on that tool belt as you invent and construct amazing new shelters of your design.
- Test key structural principles underlying various shelters to adapt to different environments.
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Inside Out
We will discover how our world is turning inside-out via global warming. The intention is to use environmental change as a platform to feed innovation. How can we reinvent energy consumption patterns, and modify other aspects of our daily lives to live in greater harmony with nature?
- Our key maker projects include wind turbines and solar cookers.
- Come build art installations that blur the lines between the natural and human-made worlds.
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Interacting with the Invisible
How do we “see” the invisible and explain that it is real, that it exists, and learn more about it with our interactions? It’s propulsion week.
- Use air as an energy resource to make things move.
- Design and build an air-powered car, or a walking creature-bot!
- End the week with a team stomp rocket challenge.
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Playscapes
- Design, build, and run your own Luau carnival including all of the booths, games, and prizes.
- Investigate the meaning and importance of play and find opportunities to incorporate systems of play into everything you do.
- Explore why logic and rules are needed to create structured play (sports and games) versus non-structured play.
- Offered the week of 7/5.
Primo
Pre K – K
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Exploring Light and Shadow
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Sound and Movement
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Myths and Legends
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Marvels of the Natural World
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Building and Engineering
- Learn the basic engineering design process as you experiment with balance, gravity, measurement, symmetry, and spatial relationships.
- Develop your divergent thinking as you prototype different three-dimensional designs in different environments.
- Play with different combinations of materials including rocks and logs, metal and magnets, and new and recycled materials as you test their impact on your structures.