This event has passed. LEGO ® Build Event Brick fans both young and young-at-heart alike can join us for a the chance to build with LEGO® provided bricks to construct and design in teams in order to test their team-building and speed-building skill.s This is a fun-filled event for LEGO fans ages 6 and up! Event Categories: Events for kids, Family Activities, Featured All events must take place in Ventura to appear in our events calendar. Does this Event take place in the city Ventura? Compare natural and man-made structures, and learn what makes them stable. Experience the push and pull of forces on our earthquake table. LEGO Robotics For Young Beginners 2.0 Discover LEGO Education WeDo® 2.0. Create a tadpole-to-frog model. Program it to outrun the alligator! Or build a bee and pollinate a flower. Sensors make the bee stop and buzz. Build a mini-theme park ride and add LEGO riders! Learn to use gears to make it go faster, slower, and change direction.
Put the STEAM in STEM with this Language Arts and Visual Arts program. Learn the elements of a good story, and build speaking and listening skills. Build plot, setting and characters. Physical Forces: Get Moving! Build and race a LEGO car to test friction and wind resistance. Compare and test different designs. Build a solar-powered Joule Jeep! Compare solar and mechanical power with the energy meter! Will solar-powered cars run on a cloudy day? Use LEGO MINDSTORMS, practice problem-solving and programming. Adventure Bots retrieve LEGO treasure.Dr. Heartbeat's NanoBots deliver meds to keep the LEGO heart beating. Have you always wanted a dog? Build and animate a Dog Bot! Learn to integrate gears, pulleys and motors to achieve a working animation. Animal Allies FIRST LEGO League Robot Game Grades 4 - 8 LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 robots deliver food and release the panda. Tips for FIRST LEGO League teams, new discoveries for all. Octopus Garden: Body Parts and Behaviors at SEA LIFE Aquarium
Meet our Giant Pacific Octopus. Discover camouflage, jet propulsion and ink-squirting. Survival at Sea: Habitats and Adaptations at SEA LIFE Aquarium Journey across four habitats. Look for animal adaptations. Squid Dissection at SEA LIFE Aquarium Dive into external and internal squid anatomy and compare to humans. Dissect a real squid! A scrappy Coney Island elementary school is creating opportunity for disadvantaged students, with innovative academic programs that have kids fired up about science, technology, engineering and math. Nine out of 10 students at Public School 188 live below the poverty line, and a quarter have special needs, but the dedicated educators there have rolled out innovative programs in robotics, forensics and rocketry that give kids a place to thrive. “The children are learning about different opportunities that they haven’t been privy to or even known about before,” said veteran principal Fred Tudda, 51, who has worked in city schools for three decades.
“To hear a 10-year-old young lady say she has the opportunity to become an engineer and now she’s thinking along those lines, to me that’s changing the world,” said Tudda. The dedicated school leader has toiled for 19 years to serve students in PS 188’s five-story brick building on Neptune Ave. that’s surrounded by public housing projects. Nine-year-olds at Public School 188 use Lego to create robots and solve problems. Anthony Griffin, of Coney Island, works an automatic volcano lava protection for buildings in his Lego Lab. (Aaron Showalter/New York Daily News) In 2009, Tudda and a couple of his teachers embarked on an ambitious project — to create a cutting-edge curriculum for their students that focused on the burgeoning academic fields of science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. Since then, STEM programs have caught on in hundreds of schools across the country, fueled by the widespread belief that students need an education in STEM to compete in the global digital economy of tomorrow.
New York City has emerged as a leader in the STEM movement, with scores of innovative programs in the public schools, including some that earned national recognition, such as Brooklyn’s Pathways in Technology Early College High School, which President Obama visited in October. But PS 188, a seemingly old-fashioned elementary school set deep in working-class Coney Island, was an unlikely place to launch a futuristic program in high-tech education. Teacher Diana Leonforte (right) helps Kelly Lam (left) and Tamia Gomez get a Lego bird’s wings flapping. (Aaron Showalter/New York Daily News) About two-thirds of PS 188 students don’t have computers or Internet in their homes, most families are on public assistance and many parents lack high school diplomas. But Tudda and his crew created a robotics program centered on Legos building blocks that about half of PS 188’s 550 students participate in before they graduate from fifth grade and leave the school. They use the blocks to build robots controlled by laptops that can walk around, lift objects and put them back down, and recognize colors or other changes in the environment.
In building the robots and using Legos to create other structures, the kids learn about problem solving, communication and creativity, said STEM instructor Evan Mirenberg. Students at Coney Island's P.S. 188 can take a Lego Robotics class, a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) curriculum course that allows hands-on technology education. “We’re giving students a 21st century education,” said Mirenberg who teaches small groups of kids to build Lego robots in a sunny, third-floor classroom with co-teacher Diana Leonforte. “It’s teaching them to think analytically.” Students worked intently to solve problems using Legos in class on Friday, with a group of four building a landscape out of the blocks to simulate a volcano’s eruption and using laptops to control their robots. “When you change the computer program, it changes what the robot does,” said Tamia Gomez, 9, a fourth-grader from Coney Island who wants to be a mathematician when she grows up.