COURSE CATALOG WAUKEE ACADEMY SUMMER 2021 | VOL. 12 | ISSUE 3 WELCOME LETTER BRICKS 4 KIDZ: DEAR COMMUNITY MEMBERS, Bricks 4 Kidz® o ers project-based Welcome to spring! programs designed to teach early principles and methods of engineering At the time of writing this note, it is cold and snowy outside. By the time this note and architecture using LEGO® bricks. is in your hands, I hope it is a much warmer and sunnier spring day! As we look With covid precautions in mind, each forward to an upcoming summer, I encourage you to keep your student engaged camper will be assigned their own in learning. Avoiding the “summer brain drain” is something that we stress each year. It is likely even more important this summer, given the past school year and project kits and materials that only the learning hurdles that students have faced. they will use over the duration of the camp week. All Campers will take Our summer camps are a mix of in-person and online learning opportunities. home a B4K t-shirt and a mini LEGO® Many of our in-person opportunities are exible and able to move online if need- building set at the end of each camp ed. Whether your student attended the past school year online or in-person, our week. summer camps are open for all students. We have a number of new and fun learning opportunities for students this sum- KNIGHTS & NINJAS mer including: Anchor Kids, Whimsical Art Class, Band Boot Camp, Ready, Set... Multiply!, Start Smart with Study Skills, Sum Fun! Addition & Subtraction, Now LEGO® CAMP Presenting Camp, Yes And...Exploring Improv Camp, Private Instrument Lessons, This returning favorite is inspired by and Application Design. the popularity of Nexo Knights™ and the action packed world of Ninjago®. As always, please feel free to contact me. I welcome your feedback on how we Our camp will feature LEGO® technic can continue to grow Waukee Community Education and better serve our stu- dents, families, and community members. model building that includes wild vehicles, dragons, and spinning creations. We will create an arena for Je Longman Spinjitzu challenges as well as Ninja Director of Community Education temples and Knights castles. We will bring out some of our favorite @WaukeeCommEd Kidz Night Out activities including Spinjitzu and Airjitzu plus Chima Racer competitions! Gather your COMMUNITY EDUCATION STAFF Ninja friends and join us for a week of building fun that will test your Waukee Community Education Ryan Sander engineering and architecture skills. For 560 SE University Ave CE Facility Coordinator Waukee, IA 50263 [email protected] students entering grades K-6. 515.987.2761 Instructor: Bricks 4 Kidz Sta [email protected] Sarah Paulsen Silver Cord Program Supervisor S2100a Je Longman [email protected] Monday-Friday, 9:00 am-12:00 pm Director of Community Education [email protected] Karen Norton June 14-18 Administrative Assistant Timberline School, Pod Area #302 Andrea Wilmes [email protected] and Room #308 Associate Director of Childcare $162 [email protected] Rich Miller EMMET’S WORLD LEGO® Childcare Program Manager [email protected] CAMP Everything is AWESOME in Emmet’s world! Bring your Master Builder skills for a week dedicated to your favorite 2 it’s GAME ON! For students entering characters from the LEGO® Movies 1 NEW! MOVIE MASH-UP grades K-6. & 2. In addition to creating the city LEGO® CAMP Instructor: Bricks 4 Kidz Sta of Bricksburg, this camp will feature Join us for the magic of the movies.... ve daily themes and incorporate LEGO® style! This camp is lled with S2100e technic model designs, 3D and mosaic a variety of technic, 3D, and mosaics Monday-Friday, 9:00 am-12:00 pm projects as well games, challenges from your favorite Hollywood and July 26-30 and crafts. We will construct with Pixar movies. A new theme each day Timberline School, Pod Area #302 and Emmet and Lucy, ride with Batman, y will keep builders inspired to in nity Room #308 with Benny, sail with Metal Beard and and beyond! We will feature characters $162 enjoy a Jurassic day in honor of our from animated favorites including newest villain, Rex Dragonvest! Alert Toy Story, Frozen, Finding Nemo, all Master Builders and join us for a Despicable Me, and How to Train Your COMMUNITY week of creative fun that will test your Dragon. Blockbuster series Harry Potter INSTRUCTORS: engineering and architecture skills! For and Jurassic Park will be featured as students entering grades K-6. well! Come create your own magic! For Instructor: Bricks 4 Kidz Sta students entering grades K-6. NEW! ANCHOR KIDS Instructor: Bricks 4 Kidz Sta Are you looking for a healthy and S2100b impactful summer camp for your Monday-Friday, 9:00 am-12:00 pm student? This camp focuses on the June 21-25 S2100d Timberline School, Pod Area #302 and Monday-Friday, 9:00 am-12:00 pm 5 pillars of health for kids: tness, Room #308 July 12-16 nutrition, seeds2snacks (garden to $162 Timberline School, Pod Area #302 and table focus), mindfulness (yoga), and Room #308 sport/activity (soccer). This camp aims GALAXY FAR AWAY $162 to teach kids the life skills they need to LEGO® CAMP be successful, empowered, and healthy Calling all Jedis! Back by popular NEW! GAME ON LEGO® leaders of tomorrow! Students should demand, this space camp is inspired dress for physical activity and bring by NASA and the STAR WARS saga. CAMP a water bottle. For students entering Our updated version of a summer Build the Gemini Capsule or the grades K-5. favorite takes us into the world of Space Shuttle Discovery. Recreate a Instructor: Dillon Burns video games without ever turning motorized replica of an epic battle on a screen. In this interactive camp, in space. Tie Fighter or X-wing? Build Camp #2101 we will use basic and technic bricks your model and choose your side in Monday-Friday, 1:00-4:00 pm to create 3D models, mosaics, and our popular zipline races. Each day July 12-16 simple machines that represent iconic campers will learn about real-life space $174 video game characters and symbols exploration and then venture into pop and the virtual worlds they inhabit. culture with LEGO motorized technic BABYSITTING BASICS Classic arcade is back with Pac Man™ models, 3D and mosaics that represent and Super Mario™. Modern favorites Learn how to be a responsible and spacecraft, heroes and villains from return including Fortnite™ and the caring babysitter that parents will our favorite space saga. Gather your amazing world of Minecraft™, and love to hire! Participants will learn builders for this journey to a galaxy far, NEW this summer, a nod to Roblox about basic rst aid, how to respond in far away! For students entering grades and Beyblade. At Bricks 4 Kidz camp, emergencies, how to care for/entertain K-6. Instructor: Bricks 4 Kidz Sta WHAT FAMILIES ARE SAYING... S2100c “I am so pleased that Bricks 4 Kidz was able to add this week of camp. My son Monday-Friday, 9:00 am-12:00 pm enjoyed it immensely, and he was sad when it ended. I felt that the COVID-19 June 28-July 2 precautions were excellent, and it was safe to send my child to this camp. Bravo Timberline School, Pod Area #302 and to Paula, her sta , and Waukee Community Education for all of your hard work!” Room #308 $162 WAUKEE COMMUNITY EDUCATION | SUMMER 2021 | 515.987.2761 | COMMUNITYED.WAUKEESCHOOLS.ORG 3 infants and young children, and the CAMP INVENTION License. Once certi ed, students will role and responsibilities of a good take to the skies with their new ying babysitter. This two-session course is RECHARGE skills and compete with each other park your kid’s creativity and for youth in 5th grade and above, and S in exciting, aerial laser tag battles. con dence with our new Camp includes a babysitter manual, rst aid Students will work with their teams Invention® program, Recharge! kit, and diaper to use for practice. This and use their critical thinking skills Campers will team up to take on fun, class is facilitated by educators from to develop strategies for each aerial hands-on STEM challenges. From Iowa State University Extension and competition thrown their way. A taking apart their own microphone to Outreach in Dallas County. Registration snack will be provided each day. All exploring solar-powered crickets and deadline is 10 days prior. For students equipment provided. Camp taught by creating duck-launching devices, each entering grades 5-12. Ryan Swanson (COR Robotics), who has activity is designed to give your young Instructor: ISU Extension Sta run more than fty STEM camps. For innovator an unforgettable summer students entering grades 3-9. experience. Camp Invention will be Camp #2102a Instructor: Ryan Swanson, COR o ered in-person or at-home. For Thursday & Friday, 9:00 am-12:00 pm Robotics June 17-18 students entering grades K-6. Timberline School, Media Center Instructor: Robin Julseth S2104 $30 Monday-Thursday, 1:00-4:00 pm To register, call 800.968.4332 or visit www. Camp #2102b invent.org/camp July 26-29 Thursday & Friday, 9:00 am-12:00 pm Timberline School, Gym June 22-23 Base Registration Price: $260 $99 Timberline School, Media Center $30 *$40 discount available to anyone if they register by March 31st. Use Code: CREATE40 DRONE PROGRAMMING *$30 discount available to anyone if registered BALLOON TWISTING by April 30th. Use Code: CREATE30 Students will learn to program and y Have you ever wanted to make things *$25 discount available to anyone if they register at the same time! The programmable by May 26th.