Tualatin Camp Wiz Kids - Spring Break
Looking for a way to keep your kids learning during Spring Break? Want to invest in something with a guaranteed return? How about your kid's education?
At Camp Wiz Kids, we believe it is a much richer experience for a child to create a video game than to play one, or to produce a video or animated feature than to watch one. We believe tha...
Looking for a way to keep your kids learning during Spring Break? Want to invest in something with a guaranteed return? How about your kid's education?
At Camp Wiz Kids, we believe it is a much richer experience for a child to create a video game than to play one, or to produce a video or animated feature than to watch one. We believe that kids are the ultimate inventors, they have not yet learned that there are limits, everything is possible, there is a solution to every problem.
At Camp Wiz Kids, kids will be introduced to engineering and technology concepts that will allow them to create (instead of consume) the media they are so engaged with, while communicating the ideas that are important to them and making lifelong friends.
Students will be introduced to concepts such as:
- Computer Animation with Scratch
- LEGO Physics
- Video Production
- Stop Motion Animation
- LEGO Robotics
- Discover Engineering
Registration fee is normally $180, however we are currently accepting EARLY BIRD REGISTRATIONS, for $160/ child, until Friday 3/6. After 3/7, price returns to $180/child.
When
March 23, 2009 - March 27, 2009
Type
- Class / Group Sessions
Skill level
All difficulty levels
Ages
6 to 12 year olds
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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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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.
