Event run by Oak Park Public Library. Customize a 3D Printed Cookie Cutter and get your creation printed out in one of our 3D Printers! Students will learn about 3D printing principles, design their 3D object, download designs onto 3D printing software, queue up their project to be printed, Students will learn about 3D printing principles, download designs onto 3D printing software, print their chosen objects, and then freely create their own objects in a Open Source 3D printing program…

All Virtual Events are Scheduled/Run in Eastern Time. Click Here for a time zone converter. Event run by NYU Tandon Robotics Design Team. Customize a 3D design and watch your creation print out in plastic! Three Dimensional printing is a new phenomenon in the tech world, and it is an amazing way to bridge the software and physical worlds. Students will learn about 3D printing principles, download designs onto 3D printing software, print their chosen objects, and then freely create…

All Virtual Events are Scheduled/Run in Eastern Time. Click Here for a time zone converter. Event run by ORCSGirls. Do you like cartoons? Come to the Cartoons from Scratch class to learn how to make 2D animations using Scratch. This class is very friendly to those with no coding experience.

All Virtual Events are Scheduled/Run in Eastern Time. Click Here for a time zone converter. Did you know that Disney, Netflix, Google and NASA, just to name a few, are all using Python? Python can be used for creating web applications, automation, programming robots and artificial intelligence. Python is the language of choice from beginners to experts. Students will learn how to program using Python starting with simple data types, including numbers, letters and strings, and lists. Students will also…

Do you like to play video games? Do you wonder how they are made? Would you like to make your own? Come learn how to do this using the block-based Scratch visual programming system. You’ll learn what coding is all about, have fun exercising your imagination about how your game should work, and gain skills by writing code to make it work.

All Virtual Events are Scheduled/Run in Eastern Time. Click Here for a time zone converter. Event run by Booz Allen Hamilton. In this workshop, students will learn about databases, its structure and what it looks like, and more importantly, how you can get the database to answer your questions! The lesson will be hands-on and focus on standard SQL statements that can be used with any database software.  This workshop will be hosted by Booz Allen Hamilton volunteers. To learn…

All Virtual Events are Scheduled/Run in Eastern Time. Click Here for a time zone converter. Event run by Huron Consulting Group. Have you ever wondered how Alexa or Siri recognizes your voice, or how Facebook is able to automatically recognize your friends in pictures? The answer is Artificial Intelligence (AI), or also known as Machine Learning! In this workshop, students will learn about how machine learning techniques such as artificial neural networks learn from data to answer real world questions.

All Virtual Events are Scheduled/Run in Eastern Time. Click Here for a time zone converter. Event run by Varonis. You’ve been online a lot! Do you know the ins and outs of staying safe? Let’s go over some of the rules and some ideas to help you. Learn how to be a good digital citizen as well as a cautious one on various forms of social media. Learn how to recognize and respond to cyberbullying, phishing, and suspicious behavior, as…

All Virtual Events are Scheduled/Run in Eastern Time. Click Here for a time zone converter. Event run by Capgemini. Join us to learn the latest strategies in brainstorming & develop your abilities to outline a project concept & present it for feedback to help you make informed design decisions. Learn techniques to help you communicate a concept & work with a teams. Students will work in teams to design a mobile app. They will select an app idea, develop a…

Event run by Oak Park Pubic Library. Video is a powerful way to communicate stories through individual videos or a series of video shorts that can be used in many ways such as news stories, teach a skill, crowdfunding videos, calling people to action on an important issue, serving as a public service announcement, or simply to tell a story. Storytelling is the basis of this impactful media. In this workshop for girls in grades 5-8, students will learn how…

Event run by Oak Park Pubic Library. Interested in exploring what's inside a computer? Find out what's inside a computer by taking one apart – all you really need is a computer and a few tools! We'll provide the tools and the computer and you get to have fun exploring!

Event run by Gwynedd Mercy Academy High School. This lesson covers what robots are and how to program and control them using computer code. Students will use pre-made VEX Robots to learn basic programming techniques by completing specific tasks.

All Virtual Events are Scheduled/Run in Eastern Time. Click Here for a time zone converter. Did you know that most of the world’s data is stored in something called a database? This includes your school grades, Yelp’s list of local pizza shops and music downloads on your computer. Databases contain tons of information. Finding the exact information you need can be like finding a needle in a haystack. In this workshop, students will learn about databases, its structure and what…

All Virtual Events are Scheduled/Run in Eastern Time. Click Here for a time zone converter. Complex systems are all around us from a flock of birds creating beautiful patterns, to the spread of diseases to understanding and protecting ecosystems. Computer simulations are a great tool scientists use to understand complex systems. In this class, you will learn about computer simulations and create your own simulations of an epidemic and what factors make it spread faster or stop. We will be…