Course Descriptions for Group 3

All of the courses offered to group three throughout this summer's STEAM Academy are shown below. For each course, projects and themes may vary from week to week within the course topic to provide students with an awesome experience each week.

Advanced Electronics and Coding with Arduino

In today’s advanced world, we rely on technology for just about everything. Who makes this technology? How can a phone control the lights in a room? Or a TV? Experience this world not from the eyes of the consumer, but the hands of the maker through computer programming and manufacturing digital electronics. Learn to design, program, and build your own custom products by using professional tools like soldering irons, computer milling machines, and javascript programming languages. Become a designer who creates electronic products that solve the problems in your life!

Advanced Materials Processing and Manufacturing

Are you a maker? Do you like working with your hands? Experience the world of a professional builder by learning to make the stuff you use every day. Learn how to use advanced hand tools, advanced power tools, and advanced computer controlled machines to make one of a kind products that you design!

Advanced Graphic Design and Production

Design is all around us in the ads we see, the clothes we buy, even the emojis in our messages. But who makes these things? Do you have an eye for design? Using Adobe design software, the industry standard, learn to design your own images, logos, ads, or even merch using design software and tools. Print your designs to create custom products using the same machines used by professionals.

Advanced Video Game Design and Coding with Javascript

Have you ever dreamt of creating your own video game, or working for a video game company? Have you ever wondered how video games are made? Who designs characters? Experience the world of video game design this summer through the creation of your very own game or application using an advanced Javascript programming language. By combining code with the industry standard graphic design software, design your own characters, create challenging levels, and even rewards and perks for your users in a unique gaming experience!

Advanced Product Design and Production

Where do all of the products that we see online and in stores come from? Who makes them? How do they end up on our doorstep? In this course, you become the designer as you use the same techniques, software, and machines as the professionals to design a product of your own. Craft your product, build a brand around it, and share it with the world!

Make your Mark Design Challenges

In Make Your Mark, you will experience the world through the eyes of an engineer. Use the tools, machines, and software of the professionals to help you create your next big invention to solve society's problems and change the world! Are you up for the challenge?