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Create and Construct Crew (Mondays, K-2nd Grade)

Do you like to imagine, design, build and engineer? Then the Create & Construct Crew is right for you! This immensely hands-on program allows for students to work with a wide variety of mediums including (but not limited to) an all-time favorite learning tool, LEGOS®! Students will work with kits/build books as well as have the opportunity to “free build” whatever their imaginations can conjure! Along the way, we will produce pictures and videos (including time lapse and stop motion!) of our creations using a variety of iPad apps. The sky’s the limit for all of the ways we turn our incredible ideas into real things!

Program led by Ms. O'Neill

2:30-3:30 (Mondays, K-2)

Max: 25 students per session

Cost: $240

Are you a 3rd-5th grade MB Buccaneer with a passion for ALL things STEAM? Then Ms. Griffee’s STEAM Team is right for you! As a member of Club Buccaneer’s STEAM Team, you will engage in CODING from blocks to more advances languages like Python and Java. The ROBOTICS portion will include such exciting tools as iRobot’s Root, Ozobot, and Sphero BOLT. Finally, the 3D Printing segment of this club will challenge Buccaneers to design in Tinkercad and bring their creations to life using our Robo3D printing lab. Whatever your passion, STEAM Team has something just for YOU!

Mondays 2:30-3:30

Led by Ms. Griffee

Offered to MBE students 3rd-5th

Maximum 25 students

Cost: $240

Minecraft: Education Edition prepares students for the future, building future-ready skills like creativity, problem solving, and systems thinking, and nurturing a passion for play. The Minecraft Mob will:

DRIVE MEANINGFUL LEARNING 
Explore real-world issues in immersive, imaginative worlds

PREPARE FOR DIGITAL FUTURE
Computational thinking with in-game coding and curriculum

SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL SKILLS
Build empathy and learn digital citizenship.

Program led by Ms. Johnson

Grades 2-5

Wednesdays: 2:30-3:30

Max: 24 students per session

Cost: $240 

Robotics Club (1st-3rd Grade)

This fun and interactive club exposes Mt. Bethel’s budding engineers to the foundations of robotics, including construction and basic programming. Students will use LEGO® WeDo 2.0 kits and curriculum to build, program and test a minimum of 2 different WeDo 2.o robots, including Milo the Science Rover! In addition to LEGO® curriculum, members will gain exposure to real world robotics, try out other cool robots (like BeeBots, LEGO Boost, Ozobots and Robot Mice) and partake in other hands-on design, construction and programming/coding activities.

***Note that students returning to robotics will continue moving forward with new builds and challenges based on previous experience.

Wednesdays 2:30-3:30

Led by Ms. Griffee

Offered to MBE students 1st-3rd 

Maximum 25 students

Cost: $240

Coding with young children opens their eyes to the world inside of computers, as well as the world around them. Software is the language of our modern world. While not every child will grow up to be a software engineer, it’s crucial they understand computational thinking as it combines math and logic and helps promote higher levels of problem solving. Programming is shown to be beneficial to cognitive development, working the language centers in the frontal cortex in unique and powerful ways. When we increase our computational thinking, our brains form new neural connections while strengthening existing ones.

Club Buccaneer’s latest FACT Club offering, BugBytes: Jr. Coding and Problem Solving, will provide your young child with opportunities to increase their computational thinking and ability to tackle mental challenges in new and creative ways. Each week, your child will develop computational thinking skills through both digital and analog methods, including:

Osmo Coding

Scratch Jr.

Tynker

LEGO Coding Express

Hour of Code

Kodable

Brain training exercises including fun logic games, puzzles, brain teasers and more!

Thursdays 2:30-3:30

Led by Ms. Griffee

Offered to MBE students K-2nd  

Maximum 25 students

Cost: $240

Does your child love board games? 
Games Galore offers students the opportunity to explore and build their
strategic knowledge and critical thinking skills.  Students will be
introduced to classic games, and discover new favorites, as they learn game
etiquette while practicing good sportsmanship, teamwork and cooperation through
constructive and critical feedback.  Come and join Mrs. Griffin and Mrs.
Prasad for a semester full of good, old-fashioned fun…with a modern twist!

Thursdays:  2:30-3:30

Program led by:  Mrs. Griffin & Mrs. Prasad

Max:  24 students

Cost: $240