Week-to-week camp schedules can be found on the registration website and will be discovered beneath in Extra Data and Coverage Paperwork part.
STEM ES (rising 4th to fifth grade)
On this week-long camp college students will find out about design-based pondering and apply that to actions deliberate for the week. They are going to use the VEX GO robotics system to use design-based studying and be taught in regards to the micro: bit microcontroller. There are breaks every day for extensions and follow time.
Pattern Actions:
- Find out about design pondering
- Construct and program VEX GO equipment as a warmth defend (just like the one utilized by the James Webb telescope)
- Make a thermometer utilizing the micro: bit
Format: Primarily Particular person with some group interactions
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On this one-week camp, members will work with experts to interaction in quite a lot of coding initiatives that embrace utilizing the VEX IQ robotics platform. Every day college students will take part in challenges. There are breaks every day for extensions and follow time.
Pattern Actions:
- Construct and program VEX IQ Robotic
- Challenges: Maze, Sumobot, and Catapult
- Actual World Software: MARS Rover
Format: Pairs
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On this one-week camp, members will discover numerous methods to design and make objects. This introduction to fabrication includes utilizing design software programs, fixing design issues, and studying fabrication instruments resembling 3D printers, laser cutters, and CNC routers. These ideas will likely be utilized in a hands-on format within the type of design challenges all through the week.
Pattern Actions
- Design a product that converts typical family merchandise right into a toy or recreation
- Design or revise a product that makes your college life simpler
Format
Particular person
Transportation
All fabrication camps are on the NOVA Manassas Campus. We’re providing transportation to Manassas from our different NOVA Campuses. See dates and site beneath for transportation:
- June 26-30 from NOVA Annandale and Loudoun Campuses
- July 31-August 4 from NOVA Woodbridge and Alexandria Campuses
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On this week-long camp college students will learn to code, create circuits and initiatives utilizing an Arduino and Raspberry Pi. Members will make easy circuits utilizing Arduino or Raspberry Pi boards to create a Good House. As well as, college students will have the ability to use their logical pondering expertise to unravel problem-based actions.
Pattern Actions:
- Construct and code an alarm with LEDs and sound
- Construct a small pc with a Raspberry Pi
Format: Particular person
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This one-week camp introduces college students to the VEX Robotics Design System the place college students will construct and program a VEX V5 robotic to unravel a problem on a 12’ x 12’ subject. The problem consists of fixing a maze autonomously and integrates a part of the sport from the yearly VEX Robotics Competitors. We pair older college students collectively.
Pattern Actions:
- Construct and Code a VEX V5 robotic
- Clear up a Maze: Combine sensor suggestions into your code
- Staff competitors at finish of camp
Format: Pairs, competing in opposition to different camp groups.
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On this one-week camp college students will work with electronics to create initiatives utilizing software program engineering and the Arduino microcontroller. Members will learn to combine and management electronics resembling LED’s, motors and sensors to finish initiatives and challenges. Quite a lot of coding construction will likely be taught to regulate and refine the perform of every undertaking. No earlier expertise required.
Pattern Actions:
- Construct and program a customized show with a customized message
- Wire and management LED’s to activate and off in a sample.
- Wire and management a motor/servo with a sensor
Format: College students work in teams of 2-4 college students, full challenges and compete in opposition to different groups.
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This one-week camp introduces college students to rocketry. The place college students will construct rockets to finish challenges and simulate flight. These actions educate the fundamentals of rocketry, the science behind how they work, and rocketry security. The scholars could have a subject journey on the final day of camp to a launch website to soundly launch their customized rockets.
Pattern Actions:
- Construct a 2-foot rocket to finish a flight altitude problem
- Use Rocket Simulation software program to mannequin flight
- Subject journey to launch website
Format: Particular person Challenges.
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Highschool college students inquisitive about exploring the Cybersecurity domains and furthering their data of human safety, pc hacking, digital safeguarding of purposes, and safe communication will discover a lot to be taught via two cybersecurity camps supplied this 12 months. Every camp will characteristic hands-on actions and labs to have interaction college students. Laptops will likely be offered.
Pattern Actions:
- Discover and expertise totally different cybersecurity instruments.
- Seize the flag problem.
Format:
Particular person and group
Cybersecurity Camps Provided
Cybersecurity Fundamentals
This camp will introduce college students to the foundations of cybersecurity. College students will discover matters round private safety, cyber legislation, moral hacking, digital forensics, community safety, cryptography, and encryption. College students will likely be launched to the Linux command line interface and totally different cybersecurity instruments all through the week.
Seize the Flag
This camp will discover the thrilling world of Seize the Flag. College students will follow their cybersecurity and pc science data in the course of the week with quite a lot of challenges, starting from the newbie degree with easy clues and easy-to-use instruments, to the superior degree requiring a number of instruments and a deeper understanding of pc science and cyber ideas. College students are anticipated to have participated within the Cybersecurity Fundamentals camp or different cyber camp/program previous to this camp and should have expertise utilizing the Linux command line and different cybersecurity instruments.
