PS3 STEM Camp!
MakerState and PS3 are teaming up for the best stem summercamp!
PS3 and MakerState’s STEM Summer Camp offer week long summer camp programs featuring themes in robotics, coding, engineering, rocket science, game design, Minecraft, 3D design and more.
PS3 STEM Camp includes a field trip every Wednesday where kids will develop and use their skills in different settings!
Our STEM Summer Camp Programs are designed to develop kids’ STEM skills as well as communication skills, creativity, critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Summer Camp is taught by fingerprinted and background-checked Maker Fellows who excel in STEM.
STEM Camp – PS3
PS3 Makerspace
OUR MISSION:
MakerState’s mission is to help transform K-12 education through student-centered, inquiry-based and experiential learning. Our approach to STEM education allows kids to create and problem solve through the implementation of robotic technology, coding, engineering, rocket science, game design, Minecraft and 3D design and more.
PS3 STEM Education – The MakerState Mission
Science/Tech/Engineering/Arts/Maker Camp with emphasis on Fun! Our STEM Summer Camp in the West Village focuses on developing kids’ STEM skills and social skills through team oriented, challenging projects. This year MakerState introduces an overarching theme of Sustainability. This provides kids with the opportunity to connect the lessons, community and the wider world through addressing real-world issues, and solving them through STEM education.
MakerState STEM Camp Offers:
MakerState offers in-depth, hands-on instruction of STEM focused learning – best part is we make it fun for kids! During summer camp we teach kids coding, lego robotics and engineering.
Do you have a robot or video game enthusiast at home? We would love to meet them!
STEM & CODING SUMMER CAMP
WHAT A DAY AT CAMP LOOKS LIKE
- 8:30am-9am: Drop off and creative play
- 9am-10am: Open Makerspace: exploring and creating with littleBits, MaKey MaKey, CircuitScribe, and Snap Circuit
- 10am: Circle Meeting: Explore the morning Challenge and the Prototype we’ll build with a special emphasis on how it’s built, the STEM concept/skill we’ll learn, and where we see this in the real world
- 11:30am: Break for lunch and physical play recess that includes games, laser tag, water balloons, and more
- 1:30pm: Circle Meeting and another Challenge and Prototype building session in the afternoon
- 3pm: Circle Debrief: we reflect upon our creativity and collaboration for the day and are awarded our badges (plus healthy snacks)
- 4pm: Open Makerspace
- 5pm: Pick-up
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Every Wednesday PS3 organizes a field trip for campers. Drop off and pick up times are:
STEM & CODING SUMMER CAMP
WHAT A DAY AT CAMP LOOKS LIKE
- Day camp for makers ages 6-14
- At least two hands-on STEM tech-arts projects every day
- Recess & play every day with laser tag and water balloons
- T-shirt, lanyard & project badges awarded
- Skill-building in coding, design, problem-solving, communicating, collaborating, and more
Lots of Outdoor Play!
Week 1
Create Your Own Space Program: Rocket Design in TinkerCAD, Kerbal & 3Doodler
We’re launching into hands-on rocket design and sustainable space exploration in this introduction to NASA engineering. We’ll build a lemon-powered light and a DIY electromagnet with wire, a nail, and a battery. We’ll automate farms, build green transport systems, and cultivate alternative fuels in the Roblox Studio and control our vehicles, rockets and satellites with the Micro:bit microcontroller.
Week 2
Hands-on Engineering & Design with LEGO Robotics, Minecraft & MaKey MaKey
Roll up your sleeves engineers! This week it’s all about hands-on building! We’ll explore how engineers at NASA, Apple and Tesla create smart rockets, devices, and cars with lots of hands-on projects in LEGO robotics and MaKey MaKey microcontrollers.
Week 3
Space Engineering: Exploring New Worlds in Kerbal, Roblox & Micro:bit
Calling future astronauts and rocketeers! We’re building sustainable spacecraft and space stations for launches, orbits, landings, and even a few malfunctions, explosions, repairs, and rescues. We’ll make balloon towers that mimic graphene geothermal systems and global cooling space tubes and a shock absorbing, parachute space lander and test it with an egg!
Week 4
Play-based Coding & Game Design with Minecraft & 3D Printing
How do you create a farm that is kind to animals? How do you make the subway friendly to all riders? How do you power a giant city on solar energy? This is your chance to build, code and playtest games based on your wildest dreams…of a sustainable world.
Week 5
LEGO Robotics & Game Design with Roblox & MaKey MaKey
Let’s build robots that walk, roll, lift, talk, play and learn! We’ll start by building a hydraulic powered robotic arm and a DIY electromagnet with wire, a nail, and a battery. We’ll design and code new Roblox Studio worlds where virtual robots can play and explore.
Week 6
3D Rocket Design & Hands-On Engineering with Kerbal Space Program
You are the next generation of space explorers and it’s up to us to discover and create new worlds! Let’s suit up and fire those booster rockets to create real rockets that fly and virtual rockets that explore moons and planets. We’ll build spacecraft, fly them, and try to help the little Kerbals fulfill their ultimate mission of creating sustainable space travel.
Week 7
Play-based Game Design Animation & Coding with DIY Minecraft & Micro:bit Controllers
This camp is all about hands-on creativity! We’ll build sustainable robots, music, and games with our pocket-sized, programmable Micro:bit micro-computers. We’ll create Mondrian-inspired playdough art, spinning animation phenakistoscopes that demonstrate persistence of vision, and re-create those epic artworks in Minecraft.
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