June 2023
Make a Website Using HTML/CSS
Event run by Motivated Community Resource Center. Did you ever wonder how websites are made? Have you ever wanted to make your own website? Making a website is easier than you may think. In this workshop, students will learn the elements of HTML and CSS and use them to create a website. Using a text editor and web browser, students will edit web page templates and use them to make their own website.
Find out more »Lights, Camera, Action: Storytelling and Video Production
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…
Find out more »Programming Edison Robots
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!
Find out more »Engineering and Roller Coasters
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…
Find out more »Introduction to JavaScript
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.
Find out more »July 2023
Cybersecurity Basics: How to Manage Cyber Risks
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…
Find out more »What’s Inside a Computer?
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!
Find out more »Artificial Intelligence: How Computers Learn
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.
Find out more »Animation & Graphics with Python
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.
Find out more »August 2023
Game Design with Flowcharts
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.
Find out more »Investigate Water Pollution Sources using ArcGIS Online
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.
Find out more »Create and Play Video Games Using Scratch
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.
Find out more »Picture Perfect Marketing: Edit Photos like a Pro
Event run by Motivated Community Resource Center. Have you ever wanted to make awesome edits to your photos? In this workshop, students will learn how to put a sunset and a starry night sky into the background of their photographs, as well as some other fun features and effects using free computer software (PIXLR) and a smartphone app called PhotoLayers. They will discover the impact made by editing photos and how the techniques are used in marketing and advertising.
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