Stem Camp Activities

Welcome to STEM Camp!

Look over the three Big Projects and choose your first, second and third choice of activity.

To earn points for your house, perform an activity, take photos or videos, and post them on your blog or Instagram.  Show your Instagram or blog post to Ms. Berkhin to earn the points. (note: if you don't already have a blog or Instagram, create one.)

BIG PROJECTS are worth 100 points each, every team will do at least one big project to present on Friday.

• Stop Motion Animation
• If you want to make your movie using Legos - they are in Mrs. Satter's room
• Download Stop Motion Studio for your apple or android phone - it's a free app
• Upload your photos to one of the windows computers (one lab is Mrs. Satter's and the other is right upstairs.)
• Tutorials
• http://www.instructables.com/id/Stop-Motion-Animation-For-Beginners/
• http://www.instructables.com/id/Stop-Motion-Animation-1/
• http://content.photojojo.com/tutorials/stop-motion-digital-camera/

• Green Screen Video
• Write a script (in the upstairs Windows lab with Mr. Brown and Mrs. Rivera)
• Sign up for a timeslot in the green screen lab (downstairs in Mr. Brown's Multimedia lab)
• Film your video in the lab
• Edit your film in any computer lab.
• Tutorials
• https://filmora.wondershare.com/windows-movie-maker/make-green-creen-video-with-windows-movie-maker.html
• https://www.wikihow.com/Use-Greenscreen-on-Windows-Movie-Maker

• Create an App for Apple or Android in Thunkable 
• You'll be working in Mr. DeCastro's Mac lab upstairs.

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• Arduino  - worth 10 points per project
• Here are the projects: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tG3acYX6qAD-21zp5Fv4o_jiwMi1jZ2M2UPHo9zFyd0/edit?usp=sharing
• The arduinos are in Mrs. Satter's lab, the equipment stays in the room.

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Medium Projects are worth 25 points each - do as many as you want

• Programming in Scratch
• Tutorials here: https://scratch.mit.edu/help/videos/
• Any of the computer labs will work for this

• Web Quest on 5G is it Worth it?
• See Mr. Klein for instructions I-318

• Create Music with Earsketch
• The first chapter of this tutorial shows you how to create music in Thunkable - https://earsketch.gatech.edu/itec2120/book.html
• Any of the computer labs will work for this

• Create Kaleidoscopic Art with Made With Code
• Tutorial - https://www.madewithcode.com/projects/art
• Any of the computer labs will work for this

• Create Drawings in code.org
• Projects - https://studio.code.org/s/artist/stage/1/puzzle/1
• Any of the computer labs will work for this

Little Activities are worth 10 points each - do as many as you like

• Be the Computer
• See Mrs. Satter for instructions

• Card Trick
• See Ms. Doherty for the trick and then find out how it works

• Mr. DeCastro will guess your number
• See the trick and then find out how it works