Mounds View Public Schools Community Education

Join us as we explore, investigate, and solve problems. This exciting hands-on engineering class combines LEGO® Education and LEGO® Technic™ materials to explore design, technology, science, and mathematics. Students will build learning models; then they’ll be challenged to customize and improve their projects with what they have learned. We will investigate the principles of design, mechanisms, pneumatics, pressure, prototyping, energy, and many more. Possible projects include the Scissor Lift, Stamping Press, Robotic Arm, Robotic Hand, Animatronic Scarecrow, and Dinosaur.

Student cooks will be challenged with 1 cooking project each meeting. The next cooking project will be discussed 1 week prior for the next meeting in order to acquire the ingredients. Younger participants may need the assistance of an adult. The cooking projects will require between 30-45 minutes to create. Any cooking time may be required after the meeting. A responsible adult is asked to supervise and assist with task as needed.

Are you a fan of cuddly animals and funny cartoons? Then this drawing camp is especially tailored for you! Over the course of four days, we will learn how to draw animals of all shapes, sizes, and colors. We will learn how to personify ordinary animals, transforming them into fully realized cartoon characters. Be a part of something fun and special!

In this amazing art camp we bring art to the next level using special materials like glow in the dark paint, glitter, metallic paint and other unique materials to make our art stand out! Join us and have a blast as we create astonishing art that glows in the dark as well as awesome projects with a spark. This camp will surely light up your creativity!

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!

Using the latest WeDo® 2.0 system that LEGO® has to offer, ignite the STEM spark in your child with this amazing camp. We are passionate about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math and want to instill this in your child too. Fostering their natural curiosity, kids, working in pairs, will explore logic, pattern recognition, and math concepts as they are challenged to build increasingly sophisticated designs. As they do so, they’ll also develop basic programming techniques using custom-made programming blocks in PCs. They will have hands-on experience effectively using gears, axles, and connector blocks in the robotic challenges.

Do you love art and things that dazzle and sparkle? Then this is the camp for you! In this camp we’ll draw and paint, sculpt and collage, bringing our art to the next level with glitter, gems, sparkles and more. We’ll make sparkling paper mache hearts, sculpt glittery clay flower bowls and make cool accessories to wear among other dazzling projects that shimmer and glimmer. Along the way we’ll listen music, paint our nails and have lots of fun!

Challenge your mind and body this summer. We will learn & play chess to make our brains sweat and also play some physical games to make our bodies sweat. We will split our activities to keep both our heads and hearts active! Chess skills will cover the beginner to an 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!

Do you love clay? Then prepare to get messy, creative and muddy! In this fun, hands-on camp we’ll make animals, ornaments, pinch pots and even famous characters with all sorts of clay and dough, from Air-Dry Clay to Model Magic. In this fun filled camp we’ll slab, pinch, hand build, and sculpt our way through this creative camp that features an exciting combination of projects.

Scratch 3.0 has landed, so stay ahead of the curve with this class. In Coding in Scratch 3.0: Projects students will get familiar with difficult coding concepts become fun and easy to understand as budding programmers build their own projects. Make a Dino Dance Party or create your own electronic birthday cards. Build games, simulations, and mind-bending graphics as you discover the awesome things computer programmers can do with Scratch 3.0. This class will give students a solid understanding of programming, preparing them to create their own projects from scratch, and even move on to more complex programming languages like Python. What's more, this new version of Scratch will also let you code and play games on tablets, and play the games you create on smart phones!

Messy? Slimy? Sticky? If all this sounds super fun, this is a must take camp for you! Join us in this messy and super exciting camp and have a blast exploring chemical reactions in a fun, slimy way, creating all kinds of ooey gooey, sticky, bouncy, slimly mixtures. Kids will also be challenged to solve fun engineering problems and so much more. In this class all the mess stays behind, as fun memories and learning go home!

Learn about role playing games by joining us on an entry level dungeon adventure. Will your group make it to safety and succeed in your quest? No experience will be required, your DM will be guiding you.

Which came first, the chicken or egg-citing challenges? In this fast moving camp, students turn the study of motion and mass into hands-on projects and team challenges! They’ll spin, toss, race and design while studying the ideas of motion, such as velocity, speed and the major role gravity plays. Each day, learners use the Engineering Design Process to meet the challenges of Eggs-traordinary Olympics Camp head-on with for a whole lot of egg-streme fun!

Have you ever wondered what you would do to save yourself from the zombie apocalypse? Students will find themselves the lone survivors of a zombie apocalypse and learn that the undead are coming to find them. The challenge is to stay alive until scientists find a cure. Be careful! One bite and you will become one of them. They will work in teams and use the Engineering Design Process to create projects to help them make the best choices for their own and their classmates’ survival.

Join us for four days filled with magical, mythical, marvelous art fun and creative thought as we explore deep in the Fantasy Forest. You will tap into your imagination while learning to draw otherworldly creatures like fairies, trolls and a forest queen. You will create beautiful scenery and new masterpieces every day.

Art is all around us, including on phones and online! Join Young Rembrandts for a workshop mimicking the amazing imagery of our Favorite Apps and Video Games! Every day students will learn new illustration and coloring techniques inspired by popular video games. Artwork is inspired by a pixel block characters, plants, zombies and many more classic apps and games. If your child loves to game or draw, they’ll have a blast putting their own personal touches on some of these favorites! Register your special gaming artist today!