If your son is in Boy Scouts and interested in earning some STEAM-focused merit badges, we can help. Our STEAM-focused camps fulfill many of the requirements of various boy scout merit badges. Animation Merit Badge Game Design Merit Badge Movie Making Merit Badge Programming Merit Badge Robotics Merit Badge The Animation Merit Badge In Brick …
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LEGO Speed Build – Watch as one of our teachers builds the base for her LEGO EV3 Robotics Kit as fast as she can! What is a LEGO Speed Build? LEGO Speed builds are videos of people building LEGO creations that are sped up past real-time. While you can try to build the LEGO creation …
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What Is That Speck? The World’s Tiniest Computer. See that really tiny black speck? That’s a computer! And that giant white rock next to it is actually a grain of rice… I know – mind BLOWN! Measuring in at 0.04 cubic millimeters, this is officially the world’s tiniest computer. Now, you can’t play Fortnite on …
Celebrate this Memorial Day with Classroom Antics this Memorial Day LEGO build. This patriotic build is a salute to our country and those who have sacrificed for it. From barbeques and parades to lake days and get-togethers, there’s a lot to do this weekend! If you are looking for a fun way to keep your …
Imagine this: you go to pick up your child on the last day of a fun-filled week of camp in LEGO Robotics, and the first thing they say is: “I want a LEGO Mindstorms EV3 kit!” You know you want your child to continue to grow and apply what they learned at Tech Camp, so you happily agree. After a while …
“Animation offers a medium of storytelling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.” -Walt Disney According to the Princeton Review, “It is extremely difficult to achieve the level of professionalism expected in this industry (animation) without study.” This is just one of the reasons …
The LEGO® Americana Roadshow: Building Across America, an exhibit of very popular American buildings built with LEGO bricks, is coming to Cincinnati. The show will be held at the Kenwood Towne Centre in from July 4-19. This traveling display of large scale LEGO models replicating some of the nation’s most well-known landmarks is traveling across …
Google announced on Tuesday that their Australian LEGO Web Building desktop web application has gone global. You can build with LEGO bricks in your web browser without the need for physical LEGO material. Instead, you can build it in 3D space inside your favorite web browser. Build With Chrome uses WebGL, a 3D graphics technology that works …
FIRST LEGO League does a great job of preparing you for competition. There are numerous phone meetings, endless emails, and on-site scrimmage meets that are made available to participating teams. There are three (or four) judging rounds (Core Values, Project, and Robot Design, and Competition). The reason I’m not quite sure if there are 3 …
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It is mid-November, and this past weekend, our Classroom Antics sponsored team, the MindBlasters, took home the Best Robot Design award. Now that the event is over, I wanted to recap my thoughts from this competition. It is my hope this blog helps make other parents aware of what to expect. I was one of four …