Mounds View Public Schools Community Education

All aboard! Summer and water goes together and what better way to have a blast than building boats that actually float using LEGO®pieces! Use your engineering mind to construct boats with different propulsion systems – from paddles to propellers and much more. Students will use LEGO® Technic™ pieces and electric motors to build their fastest boat. Then they’ll captain a boat to race it against friends. This is a summer fungineering adventure you’ll never forget!

Join us in this exceptional camp that combines art and yoga. We’ll have fun starting our day with yoga poses followed by amazing art projects where we’ll draw, paint, collage, sculpt with clay and more. Each day we’ll play yoga games, use breathing and mindfulness techniques and have a great time unleashing our creativity!

Come improve your archery skills in afun and safe environment. This campis for all skill levels. If you are an advanced archer, you will have plenty opportunities to refine your skills new students will learn all the basics become successful archers!

Tech Academy Battle Royale inspired by Fortnite! Join us for an exciting week of game-coding! Create your own Battle Royale game for you and your friends to drop into. Customize the map, set your characters and create upgrades to scatter across the world by learning coding and game design. Use your skills to achieve a Victory Royale. Bring a USB flash drive on the last day to save your  games, or they can be emailed to parents.

Challenge your mind and body this summer. Learning and playing chess will exercise our brains while physical games will exercise our bodies. Camp activities will be split to keep both our heads and hearts active! Chess skills will cover the beginner to the intermediate player and physical games may include badminton, pickleball, tag games and other indoor/outdoor games based on the ability level and mix of the group.Please note: There was a typo in the catalog and this course is recommended for grades K-4

Learn and play some of the latest multi-player table-top strategy games, including card and board games. Introduce yourself to deck building, worker placement and cooperative games. Participants will have some choice of what they want to learn and play. From Settlers of Catan to Exploding Kittens, we have lots ofoptions! We will also incorporate some games with physical activity.

For curious minds that want to have a STEMtastic summer, this camp has it all! We’ll have a blast programming Ozobots, building cool machines using LEGO® bricks and more!

This program is open to any students interested in baseball, and is designed to enhance their enjoyment of the game and their baseball skills through structured and supervised activity with an emphasis on fun. Coach Mark Downey and Mounds View High School baseball players will lead participants through structured baseball drills to improve skills. The program is flexible and welcomes students to show up on the days they are available. Presented by Coach Downey

This program is open to any students interested in baseball and is designed to enhance their baseball skills through repetition in the summer. It is geared toward the individual’s capabilities, needs and interests. As hockey players get better and learn to enjoy the game by being a “rink rat,”and basketball players as “gym rats,” so, too, do baseball players gain skill and enjoyment for the game by being“field rats” without a coach or parent structuring it for them. The program offers instruction for those who want it and unstructured activity for others. Take some swings in the batting cages, play catch, throw a pitching bullpen, field some balls, play Home Run Derby, play hotbox, play wiffle ball, or do whatever you want to do to get better and just have fun. The program is flexible and welcomes students to show up on the days they are available. Presented by Coach Downey

New to coding? Then this is the perfect camp for you! Not only will you program a robot, you’ll also take home a fun video game programmed by you! Using a friendly programming language developed by MIT, tip toe into the powerful world of programming as you program a video game and a robot with artificial intelligence. Participants are bound to develop a great love and interest for programming.

The sun is your best friend if you know how to use it! This class teaches how to cook with just the sun. Solar cooking bypasses the traditional cooking means. No electricity, gas, charcoal or wood is needed for solar cooking. Students will learn how to cook meals, dry food for preservation and purify water all with the sun.Students will build their own sun oven and water heater to take home.

Clay pinch pots, wooden projects, tie dye and more! In this super fun summer camp, we’ll have a wonderful time creating amazing crafty projects lake a wooden picture frame, a papier maché animal, an origami dog, tie dye T-shirts and much more. You’ll surely have a blast in this fun crafty camp.

Unleash your imagination as you journey through the wide-ranging world of LEGO® building. Working in pairs, students will build models and discuss the engineering science behind each model. Students will then be challenged to improve the model and customize their creations.  Possible models include the Never-Look-BackMachine, Skittle tops, Do-Nothing Machine, Coat Hanger Daredevil, Trapdoor Cable Car Parachute Machine, Rubber Band Racer, Balloon - Powered Car, and other crazy action contraptions. This hands-on class shows students how engineering can be fun and silly, yet still educational.