June 11-15: Stop Motion Movie Making, Our Community: Backyard Biomes & Robotics/Coding

Date: Wed, Jun 13, 2018, 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM

Recurs: Daily, Jun 11-15, 2018

Category: Summer Camp

Stop Motion Movie Making
(Entering 3rd-8th Grade)
 
Get ready to direct your very own stop motion animated movie. Writers, directors and producers, ages 8 and up, will produce their own movie by:
 
·         writing a script
·         creating a storyboard
·         developing characters
·         filming
·         editing
 
Stop Motion is an animation technique in which students create movies using different objects or characters. Students take a series of still photos, moving their characters based on the script and storyboard they created. The photos are put together and played, adding sound and special effects, to create a moving film. Students are paired to work in teams and create their own movie from start to finish.
 
Movie Making is one of the most complex and involved processes students can complete. From idea to movie involves brainstorming, planning, storyboard, writing, illustration, digital animation, editing, sound and more! AAALC will show your young producer, director and writer how movies are made from start to finish. Better yet, let them complete their own movie! Campers will use clay, Legos or other materials to create characters and design backdrops, ultimately producing their own animated movie. 
 
Our Community: Backyard Biomes
(Entering 1st-8th Grade)
 
Campers will take a virtual trip of Martin County’s most famous waterways as they set off through a study of the rivers in our area. Campers will engage in a variety of lessons related to Florida's ecosystems with an emphasis on the Everglades, St. Lucie River and Indian River Lagoon. Campers will create and study oyster beds, pollution and the impact of water releases on our environment.
 
Campers will take a deep dive in to our waterways and ecosystems to provide solutions to some of our communities most pressing problems. Lessons on how to be active in local politics, speaking confidently to provide solutions, will be taught and students will be provided with opportunities to share their ideas with local elected officials via speaking engagements at public meetings and/or communicating in a variety of written forms or social media forums. 
 
Families will be provided with information on the Locks, located in Stuart, that they can visit together to view the Locks system in action in addition to a tour of the museum and grounds for lessons on how the Locks system is important to our community. 
 
Robotics/Coding 
(Entering 1st-8th Grade)
 
Robotics and coding are becoming critical parts of the lives of today's youth. Youth are being prepared for jobs that don't yet exist and need to be prepared to think, create and inspire! Robotics builds science, technology, engineering and math skills, providing students with real world experiences, which provides practice critically thinking about problems and solutions while developing programming skills and team building. AAALC robotics rograms begin as young as kindergarten and encourage students to continue through high school and beyond.
 
Robotics is a program provided based on the age and skill of the campers. It uses Vex, EV3 and Lego Education WeDo™ materials to provide  lessons incorporating science, technology, engineering, and math. Students work together in small groups to build and program various levels of robots. From building working models of alligators, ferris wheels, drumming monkeys and more to building and coding more complex creations. 
 
Once programmed, students use the model for different purposes, experimenting with programming techniques. These educational opportunities encourage students to develop broader communication and language skills through cross curricular projects.

This event ended Wednesday, June 13, 2018 at 3:30 PM.

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