Event run by Motivated Community Resource Center. 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, students will learn how to construct stories and learn…

Event run by Motivated Community Resource Center. Curious about robots? Meet Edison, a LEGO compatible robot that is fun and easy to program. These robots are inexpensive and can be coded with Code Blocks, Scratch, or Python. In this workshop, students will have the opportunity to learn about robots, explore Edison and program it using EdScratch to avoid obstacles or follow a line. Students can also take on challenges with their new programming skills!

Event run by Motivated Community Resource Center. Design Like an Engineer and Build Your Own Roller Coaster! In this workshop, students will learn to think and design like an engineer by utilizing the engineering process to design a roller coaster using pipe insulation, marbles, and objects within the room. Computer simulation programs will aid in finding different ways roller coasters can be designed, taking into account variables like height, velocity, gravity, and the roller coaster path. The students will be…

Event run by Motivated Community Resource Center. JavaScript is what makes the web move. JavaScript is used to make apps, interactive websites, responsive animations, web games... pretty much whatever you can think up. In this course, you will learn the basic concepts of JavaScript, learn to talk directly to your website, and create your own JavaScript program.

Event run by Motivated Community Resource Center. Take cybersecurity into your own hands! We all rely on electronic information. But what would happen if it was stolen, corrupted, or unavailable? In this workshop, students will learn about why cybersecurity is important and the practices and tools that can help people and organizations protect their critical information. We will conduct exercises to examine some of the technology that is used to help protect computer systems and networks. Students will participate in…

Event run by Motivated Community Resource Center. 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 screwdriver! We'll provide the tools and the computer and you get to have fun exploring!

Event run by Motivated Community Resource Center 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.

Event run by Motivated Community Resource Center. Do you like to use your creativity to design problems and solutions using codes to represent ideas? Then you have a future in Computer Science! In this workshop, students will learn how to create computer graphics and animated figures/objects using Python. *We recommend that your child has taken one other coding workshop (of any coding language) prior to this or done a similar online basic coding workshop in school or at home.

Event run by Motivated Community Resource Center. Do you wonder how games like Tetris and Animal Crossing are made? Join us in exploring the elements of good game designs and the powerful backbone of all games--flowcharts! In this workshop, students will create an original game "road map" using flowcharts created with Draw.io, a free online flowchart making software.

Event run by Motivated Community Resource Center. This workshop uses a combination of a water quality dataset and an online map-making tool to investigate where a fictitious source of groundwater pollution (based on real world data) may be originating. Students will learn about water quality issues, how to measure water quality, and how geospatial information can be used to solve problems involving water resources.

Event run by Motivated Community Resource Center. 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.