Summer Day Camps in Ohio for Kids Ages 7-13
If you're like most people, you have already set and made progress on your New Year's resolutions. But why keep all that self-improvement for yourself? The New Year is a great time to expose your children to something new and exciting too! Classroom Antics Tech Camps give your child a great way to learn something new and have a lot of fun in the process. Technology camps allow your child to do things they enjoy like programming robots, developing video games, and making movies, … [Read more...]
Classroom Antics believes technology education should inspire, excite, and enrich the lives of children, and we are very excited when such a large number of respected organizations band together to give children an opportunity to show off their skills in events such as the National STEM Video Game Challenge. Inspired by the Educate to Innovate Campaign, President Obama’s initiative to promote a renewed focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education, the National STEM … [Read more...]
Classroom Antics is very excited that Dexter Industries, a leader in advanced sensors and peripherals for LEGO MINDSTORMS, announced the release of a new sensor for the LEGO MINDSTORMS system. They are releasing a proper 6 Degree of Freedom (DOF) Inertial Motion Unit (IMU) sensor which measures rotation and acceleration of robots built with the LEGO MINDSTORMS system. The sensor is both an accelerometer and gyroscope for the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT. The new sensor can measure acceleration, tilt, … [Read more...]
In a world of twitter and texting, it is not uncommon to find creative abbreviations for large words or series of phrases. But in the case of STEM, it is an abbreviation for a very large concept. STEM has become a common acronym, particularly among policy advocates and government officials, to refer to the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. The term is commonly used in relation to the nation's economic competitiveness and the related need for education programs in … [Read more...]
