Evanston Summer Camp Descriptions
3D Game Design with Roblox Studio
Perfect camp for Roblox enthusiasts to get their creativity flowing with Roblox Studio. Budding game developers will learn to design, create, code and, publish their own 3D games. Campers entering grades 4 and above use text-based Lua coding to add features to their obstacle “obby” game and adventure game while learning events and functions.
Activities will be customized based on individuals’ skill level. Campers with no Roblox experience are welcome as well.
Minecraft Redstone Circuitry
Using Minecraft’s Redstone blocks, students learn and build electronic circuits to act autonomously or in response to players . Students create devices with simple to complex mechanism based on their skill level.
Minecraft Architecture
Using Minecraft as a CAD tool, our next generation Architects learn various elements of architectural styles from Medieval to modern architecture. They create a floor plan and design the interiors with various types on stones, materials and shaped to build their dream structure.
Design and Code 3D Games
Budding game designers create exciting games using Microsoft Kodu Game Lab. They create a story line with characters, design and develop their own world with obstacles, health and score points and write codes for actions with programming sequence and logic.
Arduino – Hardware Coding & Engineering
Campers combine creativity, coding, and engineering with our Arduino microcontrollers. By combining coding with electronic circuits, students will make instruments and interactive projects. The best part, campers can push their knowledge and fun further when they take their Arduinos home with them.
AI & Mobile App Development
Students create fully functional apps and games for Android smartphones and tablets with App Inventor’s intuitive visual programming environment. They also learn the steps involved in the app design process. This course will instill confidence and an adventurous spirit for students to continue exploring to become little app creator. Campers are requested to bring their own Android device (a phone or a tablet) if possible, although it is not a requirement.
Game App Design with Stencyl
What’s the better way of learning computers and coding than to do it through making games? Students learn to develop interactive video games for mobile devices with drag-and-drop graphical user interface while comprehending programming concepts such as event handling, decision making and control structures.
3D Printing and Modeling
Campers learn 3D computer aided design using Tinkercad, understanding how three-dimensional objects are designed and developed on a modeling software. They will be given challenges to complete and print their designs using 3D printers.
Cartoon Animation
This camp offers an exciting activity where campers can learn to create their own animated videos using basic drawing tools. This experience provides campers with an opportunity to explore their artistic talents, unleashing their imagination and creativity.
By the end of the camp, campers will have learned how to design characters, create backgrounds, and animate them using simple techniques. With this newfound knowledge, campers can showcase their creations on YouTube and share their work with others
Medieval Engineering
Campers work as engineers taking inspiration from the technology and innovations from medieval times in building military siege engines and farm machines.
Marine Engineering
If your child is fascinated by marine vessels, then we’ll help feed that passion by exploring the design behind those great floating machines. Students will learn not only how these machines are crafted but also fundamental Marine Engineering topics, like buoyancy, propulsion, and different ways to power watercrafts.
Aerospace Engineering
Students will build various flying objects while learning about how things fly, air pressure, propulsion, drag, and thrust. What makes the aircraft to take off against the gravity? How does thrust and air drag affect the aircraft? These are some of the intriguing questions students will be challenged to answer and create solutions for as they explore and experiment with the different areas of aerospace technology.
Wireless RC Drone Engineering
Young pilots build their own wireless remote-control drone and learn the dynamics of flying. They also get to learn the fundamentals of aerodynamics, working principles of transmitter and receiver in encoding and decoding signals, circuit design and building light weight frame for the drone.
Remote Control Car Engineering
Playing with RC cars are fun but building them are more fun! Students make their own remote-controlled car in this class. They get to learn the fundamentals of how transmitter and receiver work with encoding and decoding signals along with basic electronics circuitry and mechanical design.
Electrical Engineering
Younger students will explore the principles of electricity through the design of electrical circuits and combining the power of electricity with magnets to create powerful tools. With this knowledge, students create exciting projects and building games involving electricity.
Senior students learn to draw and build fun circuits with LEDs, resistors, capacitors, transistors and Light Dependent Resistors in making electronic gadgets.
Theme Park Engineering
Young engineers enjoy the thrill of an amusement park by building working model of various rides while learning engineering principles, circuitry, mechanism, and design cycle.
Alternative Energy Engineering
Campers are encouraged to their green energy tendencies with our Alternative Energy activities where they learn about the different types of renewable energy and ways that they can help to keep our Earth beautiful and healthy. They will be inspired to create, design and build different types of alternative energy machines using energy from water, wind, and the sun.
Mechanical Engineering
Learn how mechanical engineering principles are applied to create the wonderful machines that make up our world. Students will be creating machines and mechanisms as they take an adventure through the world of mechanical engineering.
Civil Engineering
Learn about the different structures that make cities, such as Chicago, beautiful like the construction and design of buildings, bridges, and dams. Students will use their creativity to experiment with building their own structures using everyday materials and testing them against different forms of stress and then redesigning their structure to improve its durability.
