Centennial Community Education

Participants will start off Drone Photography by learning how to fly an entry-level photography drone. Once they've mastered the basics, they'll be taught more advanced techniques that will help them take higher quality photos and videos with their drones. Photo and video editing software tutorials will enable participants to create awesome media content that can be downloaded and kept after camp. Bring a flash drive to save and share your creations.

Robots are sooo much fun, and this camp is full of them. Do you like your robot cute and fuzzy, or perhaps more hawkish and intriguing? You are the creator of your own robots. Using motors, batteries, and other supplies from your "inventors shack" have a blast as you engineer a different robot each day, from fast moving, wiggly, shaky, spinning, and so much more. We'll top it off with other mindboggling engaging activities.

If you are looking for the most thrilling, out of this world adventure this summer, then this is the camp for you. Imagine your mission is stuck on a newly explored planet and you need to figure out how to return to earth. Your path back leads you to solve fun clues and STEAM challenges. Build a rower, design an extension arm, create a light-up constellation map, and ultimately, once you collected all clues, launch your own rocket. Explore space like never before in this action packed camp.

Turn your passion for video games into valuable life skills. Camp will introduce the world of Esports and teach participants about the many opportunities available to them by getting involved. Play some of the most popular Esports games, compete with and against each other in tournaments, and learn important lessons along the way.

Dig deep and get exploring in puzzle-filled maps in this Minecraft camp. Using Minecraft EDU, you'll learn how to use redstone mechanisms and programmed commands in order to create the perfect Minecraft Escape Map. You'll design fun puzzles, engineering traps to trick your friends, and even make hidden rooms to hide your treasure. By the end of camp, you will be able to show off your new adventure mapping, redstone, and command skills to your friends. No advanced Minecraft knowledge required.

Did you know that some species of sharks, like the Blue Shark, can fit through the bars of a diver’s shark cage? Or that the Great White Shark species can never stop swimming or they will drown? What about the theory that sharks don’t even like the taste of humans, but prefer seals for dinner? Participants will work in teams to complete Shark Week Challenges including: shark cages, floating shark fins, and the build-a-boat challenge. Together, all will investigate and experience buoyancy, density, the Engineering Design Process, and even chemical reactions.

Do you enjoy Minecraft? This theme carries over into tabletop games as well. Build, craft, mine without a screen. Explore Minecraft themed and related tabletop games. Next, you’ll use analog gaming experiences to design and create your own themed card or board games. Play test them with your new friends. Great for your creativity and imagination.

Come explore this brand-new building system from VEX. This whole camp is about building machines and bringing them to life. Work in pairs to explore different machines, how to make use of mechanical advantage, and “robotize” many of your creations, adding motors, and sensors. Get a start into the world of programming, using a drag & drop Scratch-based program. The best part is, you are building a lot of your own creative designs, including your version of the Mars Rover and the robotic arm.

Calling all future writers, artists, designers, and game developers. In this collaborative camp, enjoy storyboarding your games with character, enemy and plot development. Using the Bloxels Edu system, turn your interactive stories and physical creations into a digital video game. Use a special game board and blocks (which will become pixels) to design the characters, levels, and other art for your games. Capture your creations by using the Bloxels App, then edit and customize your game, deciding how each of the elements interact and behave. Walk away with a fun, playable game for tablet or computer, and invaluable experience with logic and programming.

Learn about the incredible adaptations of animals all over the globe. Every day of camp, you’ll camouflage with chameleons or shake claws with lobsters using bricks to build different animals. From the science of how a camel’s hump helps it to survive in harsh deserts to the complicated languages of monkeys, each animal’s adaptation is essential to survival in a particular environment. By the end of the week, you will have learned about enough animals to build your own zoo.

Launch and watch your very own rocket speed 300 feet into the air. Then it is yours to take home. Make and take home multiple rockets of varying difficulty throughout the session. These rockets and airplanes will then be used to investigate basic aeronautical concepts including propulsion, thrust, lift, drag and more. We will also hypothesize about travel in outer space, like how to get a United States astronaut to Mars and life on Mars. Do you have the right stuff? Please bring two, 2-liter empty bottles for use in experiments.

Learn to program and fly at the same time. Student groups will use drones that can be programmed to perform aerial maneuvers with entry level, block-based coding. The fun and excitement of flying drones makes it easy to forget that participants will be learning 21st century programming skills in the process. The camp will consist of a variety of fun challenges where programming skills learned will be put to the test. Families are welcome to stop by at the end of each day to see what their child has learned.

Journey to the magical world of Harry Potter and other magical lands. Build and program magical-themed projects. Young imaginations soar. Participants taught foundational building and introduced to programming concepts while learning about sensors, motors, and special technics components using the Lego Wedo Systems. Possible projects include Magic Chest, Dragon, Hippogriff, Magic Sorting Hat, Magic Carpet, and magical staircase. Participants will be working in pairs. Please bring a beverage and snack.

Do you have what it takes to survive in the wild? In this cool camp you and your team will be challenged to create cool gadgets to survive in the wild. From engineering a cool periscope, harnessing the power of the sun to cook (marshmallows-yummy), engineering a device for drinkable water, engineering a shelter, and much more. Return transformed from this cool adventure.

Don’t just play Minecraft. Turn Minecraft from a game into a visual learning tool. Instruction will reinforce problem-solving skills and spatial cognition through learning to create in-game dungeons and treasure maps. There will be a strong emphasis on creativity, exploration, and cooperative learning experiences. While immersed in the fun and creative world of Minecraft, learn about concepts in programming and game design. Camp uses the PC/Java Edition of Minecraft. Bring a USB drive to save your games on the last day. Bring a beverage and snack.

Building a rescue helicopter, a dragster, and a moon rover. Then program the 'copter' to fly, the dragster to race, and the rover to roam. Instruction emphasizes 21st Century Learning skills like STEM, teamwork and problem solving.