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Sunday, March 18, 2018 • 9:00 a.m. to noon<br />
Schechter Westchester’s Dr. Elliot Spiegel Lower School<br />
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS<br />
SCRATCH! LEARN TO CODE<br />
Curious-on-Hudson<br />
Grade Level: K only<br />
Students will be introduced to the logic of coding and programming through SCRATCH, the coding<br />
language developed by M.I.T. for children. Through use of a graphical, drag-and-drop interface, students<br />
learn how to create simple programs that are fun, animated, and personalized.<br />
WHAT CAN I EAT WITH THIS BEAK?<br />
Sheldrake Nature Center<br />
Grade Level: All<br />
Do different birds have different beaks? Let’s explore this unique bird adaptation together. We’ll try out<br />
some different kinds of beaks and figure it out!<br />
THE DISCOVER CAMP STEAM EXPERIENCE<br />
Discover Camp<br />
Grade Level: All<br />
Come fly, race, build, design, print, and code your way through a variety of fun and challenging STEAM<br />
activities. Children will participate in several guided activities, including 3D printing design, rocket building,<br />
coding and programming, car building, and more. Activities will vary based on grade range.<br />
INVENTION CONVENTION<br />
Curious-on-Hudson<br />
Grade Level: K-2<br />
Design and model an original invention out of random objects and raw materials. Kids are given creative<br />
license to solve challenges in their own ways, using their own ideas to form design solutions.<br />
ADVENTURES IN SCRATCH!<br />
Digital Arts Experience<br />
Grade Level: K-2<br />
Create original video games using Scratch! Scratch is a programming language developed by MIT and<br />
specifically designed to make programming fun and easy. Students will start with the hour of code and then<br />
explore how to create games with Scratch. By the end of the class, students will have successfully<br />
designed original video games which they will be able to share with their friends and family!
STEM FAIRYTALE PROGRAM: STRAWS, STICKS, AND BRICKS<br />
Westchester Children’s Museum<br />
Grade Level: K-2<br />
Students will design homes made of straws, popsicle sticks, and bricks (LEGOs) to see which structure will<br />
withstand the Big Bad Wolf’s huffing and puffing (a hair dryer camouflaged as the wolf!)<br />
WIND TUBE CHALLENGE<br />
Westchester Children’s Museum<br />
Grade Level: K-2<br />
Little engineers will learn the first steps of how things fly and how the first airplane was invented. Students<br />
will then experiment with materials to make their own flying machines in our mobile MakerSpace wind tube.<br />
THE SCIENCE OF OZ<br />
Westchester Children’s Museum<br />
Grade Level: K-4<br />
Students explore story elements from the classic tale, The Wizard of Oz as it relates to weather, color,<br />
solids, liquids, and solubility. Students create a vortex, in this case, a tornado; demonstrate the refraction,<br />
bending, and separating of light to make colors with a prism; and create their own “Rainbow Tube” to take<br />
home. The <strong>final</strong> fun of this workshop will be “dissolving” a witch.<br />
CODE USING TOUCHDEVELOP WITH MICROSOFT<br />
Microsoft<br />
Grade Level: K-2, 3-5<br />
TouchDevelop is perfect for beginner coders, or those who have some experience with Hour of Code.<br />
You’ll be creating your own personalized version of a popular game! Learn how to continue on your coding<br />
path.<br />
LIFE IN A VACUUM<br />
The Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum<br />
Grade Level: 2-5<br />
Learn how important the earth’s atmosphere is and discover why astronauts need to wear those big, heavy<br />
space suits. Using a bell jar and a vacuum pump, Intrepid educators will mimic the vacuum of space.<br />
Students will make predictions and then discover what happens to various objects when they are exposed<br />
to a vacuum. Finally, they will apply what they have learned to determine how the human body would react<br />
to the vacuum of space.<br />
MUSIC PRODUCTION AND THE SCIENCE OF SOUND<br />
Bach to Rock: America’s Music School<br />
Grade Level: 3-5<br />
Have you ever had a song stuck in your head? Learn the science behind creating a hit song on the radio.<br />
We will explore various sounds and learn how to make a hit song of your very own!<br />
PUFF MOBILE<br />
IBM<br />
Grade Level: 3-5<br />
During this workshop, led by two women from IBM, students will build a wind-puff-powered car using only<br />
the materials provided. The goal will be to design and build the most aerodynamic vehicle that can travel<br />
the farthest with the least number of puffs!
ROBO SUMO DERBY<br />
Curious-on-Hudson<br />
Grade Level: 3-5<br />
Students will use Legos, robots, and their own original designs in an attempty to be the last bot standing.<br />
Beginning with simple instructions using optical bar codes and scanning, students learn to program devices<br />
to follow directions.<br />
STOP MOTION ANIMATION WITH LEGOS<br />
Digital Arts Experience<br />
Grade Level: 2-5<br />
Learn how movies like The Nightmare Before Christmas, Wallace and Gromit, and more were made. Stop<br />
motion animations are created by taking many individual pictures and playing them back at a certain speed<br />
in order to create movement. Students will explore stop motion animation by creating stories with Legos.<br />
Participants can expect to finish this class having completed several animations.<br />
INTRO TO 3D PRINTING AND DESIGN<br />
Digital Arts Experience<br />
Grade Level: 3-5<br />
Design and print 3D original objects! Students will discover the history of this incredible technology and<br />
learn how to safely and properly operate a 3D printer. Using TinkerCAD, a free web-based modeling<br />
program, students will learn how to design and 3D print original objects.<br />
MYSTERIOUS PICTURES AND SECRET CODES<br />
Melkana Brakalova, Ph.D. Mathematics, Fordham University<br />
Grade Level: 3-5<br />
In this workshop, we will use code to draw a picture on square grid paper. We will use our skills to locate a<br />
treasure island using encoded directions. We will also learn how to encode and decode messages using<br />
the Magic Coding Wheel. If time allows, we will also work with Pascal’s triangle, a random maze.<br />
DESIGN YOUR OWN BEVERAGE<br />
Pepsi<br />
Grade Level: 3-5<br />
Create your own beverage that you get to drink and take home! Come learn the science and technology<br />
behind your creation with the senior food scientists and chemical engineers at Pepsi.<br />
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING<br />
Climate Change & Environmental Services, LLC<br />
Grade Level: 5<br />
Learn how the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land upon which we travel are all interconnected<br />
and how taking care of them is important for good health, a good economy, and for achieving the mitzvah<br />
of Tikkun Olam.
The <strong>STEAMposium</strong> will also include a Tinker Fair in the gym, with the following booths:<br />
ROVER RENDEZVOUS: MARS ROVER SAMPLE RECOVERY MISSION<br />
Jupiter Joe’s Sidewalk Astronomy<br />
Participants will be challenged to utilize a robotic arm in order to execute a mock Mars Rover sample<br />
recovery mission in order to recover certain minerals and elements on the surface of Mars.<br />
SPEECH THERAPY<br />
Burke Rehabilitation Center<br />
Students will learn about the methods and strategies of speech therapy.<br />
FASHION ILLUSTRATION AND DRAPING<br />
The Fashion Art Studio<br />
Students will draw a fashion figure.<br />
WARM- AND COLD-BLOODED ANIMALS<br />
Greenburgh Nature Center<br />
Using an infrared thermometer, students will examine the varying temperatures of warm- and cold-blooded<br />
(live!) animals, exploring what it means to be warm/cold blooded.<br />
MATHTASTIC GAMES!<br />
Mathnasium of Scarsdale<br />
Students will have the opportunity to play the following games:<br />
• 10 Slam, developing student skills in recall, speed, and accuracy<br />
• Number Detective, developing student skills in observation and problem solving<br />
• Sticky Note Number Fraction Line, developing student skills in sequencing and defining order/size<br />
• Magic Plus, developing student skills in problem solving and teamwork.<br />
SLIMY GOLD RUSH<br />
White Plains High School<br />
Students will create gold, bouncy slime.<br />
MAKEY MAKEY AND POKEMON GO!<br />
Chaim Jaskoll, Schechter Westchester Parent<br />
Younger students will learn Makey Makey, and older students will learn Pokemon Go in Tableau.<br />
SEWING IN THE NEXT DIMENSION<br />
Sew Happy<br />
Take a one-dimensional object and sew it into a 3D object.<br />
FUN WITH KEN-KEN<br />
Robert Fuhrer
Learn how to solve KenKen logic and math puzzles.<br />
THE WORLD OF MICROBES AROUND US!<br />
BASF, the largest chemical company in the world<br />
Students will examine petri dishes with different surfaces collected via swab from around the house and<br />
parts of the body. They will learn how bacteria grow on the plates and that each dot on the petri dish<br />
represents one single cell that was taken from the environment and grew to become visible. Students will<br />
observe which surfaces have more microbes and make hypotheses about why they think this might be the<br />
case.<br />
ROBOTICS: SENSE, THINK, ACT!<br />
MacInspires<br />
Experience and build your own robots! Combine different parts to make them sense the world around them,<br />
light up and move! MacInspires instructors inspire with robot challenges and awesome examples.<br />
KITCHEN CONCOCTIONS<br />
Nicole Porco, Fordham University Department of Chemistry<br />
Chemical reactions are all around us, and some very useful ones exist right in your kitchen. Learn about<br />
common acid-base reactions and polymers is this colorful and explosive workshop!
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