Playful Inventor's Workshop
Developed by the MIT Media Lab’s Lifelong Kindergarten Group, the PicoCricket Kit is designed for making artistic creations with lights, sound, music, and motion. It is a tiny computer that can make things spin, light up, and play music. You can plug lights, motors, sensors, and other devices into a PicoCricket, then program them to react, inter...
Developed by the MIT Media Lab’s Lifelong Kindergarten Group, the PicoCricket Kit is designed for making artistic creations with lights, sound, music, and motion. It is a tiny computer that can make things spin, light up, and play music. You can plug lights, motors, sensors, and other devices into a PicoCricket, then program them to react, interact, and communicate.
This course combines technology and artistic creativity to allow campers to create playful inventions to amaze their friends and family. The PicoCricket is easy to learn, fun to explore, and sets no limits on the creative process. Projects will include a Magic Lantern, a Dancing Sculpture, a Dream House, a Programmable Pet, and creative musical instruments like a Play-Doh Piano and an Electric Banana.
When
September 16, 2008 - December 02, 2008
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Type
- 1:1 / Private Lessons,
- Class / Group Sessions
Skill level
All difficulty levels
Ages
4 to 8 year olds
Where
7732 SE Aspen Summit Dr
Portland, OR 97266 | Lents
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"Really empowering for my daughter"
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- Barbara Smythe
- Portland, OR
Review of Portland Wiz Kids, April 08, 2009
My daughter participated in a "Gateway to Engineering for Girls" class and came home with the greatest collection of fun, GIRLY stuff that she built in class, from a light-up necklace, to a bouncing stuffed animal. The girls developed a great understanding of how everything worked and could explain it very clearly. Sensing no limits, she later went on to participate on a couple of fun and successful middle school teams (one of them through Portland Wiz Kids), in engineering-related competitions, including FIRST Lego League and the Sally Ride Science Foundation's Inventor's Toy Challenge. What a great introduction to technology and engineering.
My daughter participated in a "Gateway to Engineering for Girls" class and came home with the greatest collection of fun, GIRLY stuff that she built in class, from a light-up necklace, to a bouncing stuffed animal. The girls developed a great understanding of how everything worked and could explain it very clearly. Sensing no limits, she later went on to participate on a couple of fun and succ...
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Price: $120.00
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$120 for 6 weeks, $220 for 12 weeks
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Portland Wiz Kids offers programs for kids in engineering, inventing, and creative problem solving at various loca...
Portland Wiz Kids offers programs for kids in engineering, inventing, and creative problem solving at various locations throughout the Portland Metro area. Each program is developed as a way to introduce kids to the process of design and creativity in technology, with a balance of scientific theory and creative freedom to apply what is learned in a new way - truly the essence of invention.
Kids these days have many opportunities to interract with science and technology, but often it is a one-way interaction, with someone or something communicating to them, whether a teacher, a website, or a game. Portland Wiz Kids programs are developed on the basis of action learning, which uses experiential activities to teach the engineering and creative processes, whether it is designing a robot, programming a new computer game, creating a solar car, or inventing a new toy or game. Kids learn how to create something new, while having fun doing it.
Innovation comes from people who are not afraid of solving problems; who see obstacles as opportunity to make the world a better place. Portland Wiz Kids programs are designed for kids who want to learn how to use engineering or inventing to create new solutions to problems. They are designed for kids who love math and science and as well as those who don't! Each program offers participants a new way of looking at the technology they interact with on a daily basis - from a designer's point of view, rather than simply as a user.
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Portland Wiz Kids IDEA Playground
