New Prague Area Community Education Services

Gr. K-6 in Fall 2021 Introducing Camp Invention 2021 - RECHARGE! Camp Invention is a STEM summer program that turns curious students into innovative thinkers! For more details and to register click here. New this year: Camp Your Way - Choose the in-person or at-home option. Not sure if you'll want an in-person or at-home experience this summer? No worries - with our new PEACE OF MIND PROMISE, you can sign up and SAVE today and finalize your experience format six weeks before the start of camp! Register at INVENT.ORG/CAMP or 800-968-4332. Click here to register! We are offering an Extended Day experience, making our program schedule more convenient for busy families. With Extended Day, your program will run from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. for an additional cost of $80 per week. To sign up for this program schedule, please select the Extended Day option during the second step of registration.

New Class! This course will give you hands-on experience in developing your own game using Scratch 3, a visual coding platform. Students will learn how to think like programmers and learn coding concepts while creating a 2-dimentional, arcade-style Mario Bros. themed game. The first part of the class will be instructor led; with the time remaining, students will have the opportunity to customize their games. Games created in class will be available online, or students can bring a USB drive for immediate access.

New Class! Work as a team to create a custom theme park in Minecraft. Use command blocks and Redstone to create this world! Possible projects include roller coasters, water rides, trampoline parks, obstacle course, a boat race, bumper boats, a dunk tank and many more more rides and attractions! Students will get a copy of the world map to take home and expand upon. You will need Minecraft Java/PC Edition.

Combining the versatility of the LEGO building system and the Mindstorms EV3 (the most sophisticated microcomputer brick ever made by LEGO), this camp will energize and excite students. Working each day in teams, students will construct fun LEGO models, experiment with programs, and compete in robotic challenges. Robot building, block programming, and teamwork will be part of each day’s activities. Final challenges will be centered around hitting targets and a sumo battle.

Let the battles begin! Designed by the experts at MIT, LEGO® WeDo Robotics' unique system teachers students about simple machines, engineering, programming and so much more. In this camo, students may construct a catapult, battle axe, crossbow, and more! Please bring a drink and snack daily.

From a galaxy far away, Star Wars come to life! Work on a stop-motion animated LEGO® Star Wars movie. Star Wars action figures, LEGOs, and backdrops will be available for filming in class. Handle all the technical details, including using a digital movie camera, filming scenes, doing stop-motion animation and digital editing, and adding finishing touches like special effects and transitions to the movie. In this exciting, hands-on class, our instructors will take your student through the entire digital filmmaking process from start to finish using the Frames Software. Student groups' final projects will be emailed to parents, or students may bring a USB jump drive on the last day for instant access.

Do you have what it takes to survive in the Wild? In this cool camp you and your team will get challenged to create cool contraptions to survive in the Wild! From engineering to a cool periscope, harness the power of the sun to cook (marshmallows!-yummy), engineer a device for drinkable water, a shelter and so much more. You will return transformed from this cool adventure!

Coding is an invaluable skill in today's world. It can open opportunities and set kids up for success. In this online coding club with live teachers, kids learn coding skills in a fun and easy way. The program is split up into 5 levels, which takes kids from basic block programming all the way to tip toe into python, one of the world's most widely used programming languages. Take the levels back to back or skip a session! The next level will always be available. Level 1: In this introductory class, kids will learn how to handle user input, deal with motion and direction, and use their own creativity to design their own characters.

Grades 1-6 All levels welcome. The {YEL!} Teach It!…Practice It!...Play It! method keeps chess students progressing with 60+ chess lessons and thousands of puzzles as well as guided games and an end-of-week in-class tournament. Class fee includes ChessKid.com membership for the session ($49 annual value). Battle summer brain drain...sign up today to THINK, LEARN and PLAY WELL with {YEL!}.

For students entering 2nd-5th grade Launch and watch your very own rocket speed 300 feet into the air! Then it is yours to take home! Students will make and take home multiple rockets of varying difficulty throughout this session. We will use these rockets and airplanes to investigate basic aeronautical concepts including: propulsion, thrust, lift, drag and more. We will also hypothesize about travel in outer space, how to get a United States astronaut to Mars and life on Mars. Do you have the right stuff? Please visit YouthEnrichmentLeague.com for more information. NOTE: Parents please bring in two, 2 liter soda bottles (empty) for 2 different experiments.