Stateline STEM For Kids

See math come alive in business and engineering scenarios. Participants step into the shoes of a magician, a factory production scheduler, an architect, a flight engineer or a hardware engineer and see math in action in the real world of science, technology and engineering.

Robots are rising to help us solve engineering problems.

In this robotics adventure, participants will take their interest in robots, couple it with engineering design to build and program robots to find engineering solutions to some real life challenges.

Engineering challenges include:

Trash Clean Up

Finding Miners

Fire rescue mission

Robotic Basketball

Caution: engineering, computer programming and robotics at work seamlessly.

The use of innovative technology is improving products and processes all around us while workforce readiness needs the 4Cs of Critical Thinking, Communication, Creativity and Collaboration. In this time tunneling mission, children will go deep into one of the 4Cs as they explore the innovations in the world of communications from ancient times to wireless.

Education and industry experts emphasize critical thinking as a 21st century imperative. Per Bloom’s Taxonomy, critical thinking implies progressing to a higher order of thinking from just remembering facts to understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating and creating. In this program, children will learn to utilize spreadsheet as a tool to organize, analyze and synthesize information to help with decision making. They will also venture into automation to make fun games like an automated puzzle and MadLibs Robot

Financial literacy is the understanding of various financial aspects including earning, managing, and investing money. According to a 2015 study by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), teaching financial skills to kids before they enter college or the workforce is crucial to helping them grow into adults who can achieve financial security and success.

The curriculum addresses National Standards for Financial Literacy per the Council for Economic Education (CEE).  Through this curriculum, children will learn about earning income, buying goods and services, saving money and using loans.

In this dynamic fun filled course,  students engage in designing engineering solutions, setting up a business and analyzing data. While doing so, they experience strategic and critical thinking about managing money.

Participants learn how to generate an income working in a job and setting up a business. Then, they learn about how to be smart spenders of money – they set up a budget, evaluate needs vs. wants and make financial trade-offs. They learn about loans, loan terms, interest rates and their risks and benefits.

The Internet has revolutionized how we search, consume and share information.

The Internet of Things (IoT) involves extending internet connectivity to everyday devices like lights and fridge in your home to change the way we live, work, entertain, travel and even how governments and businesses work! The outlook is promising…it is estimated that by 2020, worldwide market for IoT will be ~$9 Trillion with almost 31 Billion IoT devices.

Get your feet wet with the exciting and growing field of IoT. In this course, we will use a general purpose single-board computer, Raspberry Pi, to create simple examples of home automation. You will learn how sensors, microprocessors with connectivity and processes form the foundation of IoT. In this action-packed course, you will learn about Pi’s anatomy, coding using Python programming language and circuit designing as you build simple home automation projects.

With the exponential growth in connected devices, the IoT (Internet of Things) is a key driver of digital transformation in several industries. The biggest growth is in applications and analytics. Improving supply chain processes in retail and manufacturing are considered one of the hottest application for IoT per Forrester.

Join us as we delve into the world of supply chain and warehousing with IoT!

Participants will make smart sensing devices using the Raspberry Pi and program it using the Python Programming language to check for temperature and humidity levels in their mini warehouse.

They will collect data through their devices and analyze the data to detect fire, water leakage and intrusion. They will then extend their device’s capabilities by automatically notifying and alerting the right personnel to handle any urgency.

In this action packed course, children will be learning and working with computer coding and digital circuit designing.

Introduction to the World of Big Data!In today’s world of big data, massive amounts of data are being collected and stored by organizations around the world. To put world’s data into perspective, they amount to about 200 billion HD movies which would take a person 47 million year to watch!Data Science skills are in high demand across industries like technology, business, finance, healthcare, academia, government and more. Join us for an introduction to this versatile world of data. Participants will learn how to use Python Programming Language to analyze, visualize and present data.The budding data scientists will take a closer look at the US population information and then as a sales analyst at Walmart, they will deduce how temperature impacts sales in various departments.They will get a glimpse of website traffic data as tracked by Google.The action packed program, then puts them into the shoes of a financial advisor as they review stock market prices and make investment advise to a friend.There is more! The participants will then turn their attention towards healthcare as they research youth tobacco usage survey from Center for Disease Control (CDC). They will use their learning to develop a public service announcement on the perils of tobacco use.Catch this amazing adventure with the all so prevalent data and learn some transferable skills.

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Participants learn the basics of computer programming and apply it to design robots to complete various challenges. The program specifically designed for young students and complete beginners, bundles designing, building, problem-solving, computer programming, critical thinking, collaboration and communication into one exciting program.

Participants learn the basics of computer programming and apply it to design robots to complete various challenges. The program bundles designing, building, problem-solving, computer programming, critical thinking, collaboration and communication into one exciting program.

Participants will design, build and program using Lego® NXT Mindstorm robots. Fun robotic creations include mini-rovers, remote controlled bots, catapults and check-out scanners!

The great inventions and technologies that shape our worlds today are a result of successful market launches. STEM and innovations need business ethos and acumen to become a desirable product or service.

It is never too early to educate young children in the process of designing, launching and running a new business. In this special series of programs, our goal is to inspire the next generation of STEMpreneurs! The total package includes:

STEM + Innovation + Entrepreneurship

In Build to Market Challenges, participants will work like innovators in designing a robot to solve an engineering or entertainment problem, build its prototype and then, like an entrepreneur, they will explore ways to market their product.

You experience the wonders of computer science every time you play a game, watch video or read book on a computer, mobile phone or a tablet. Isn’t it time to look inside and get a glimpse of how computers work? In this introductory program, children get a taste of Computer Science using STEM For Kids’ innovative approach of bringing complex engineering concepts to kids in a fun way. We will break open computers, explore motherboard, learn how computers function and what makes up the World Wide Web of computing devices.

Participants engage in various hands-on activities including I-Computer, Peek Inside and children’s favorite Avatar 001.