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COURSE FULL PRICE

$1500.00

$214.29

/ per session

Total sessions:

7

Location:

795 Columbus Ave, New York, NY 10025

Starts:

Jul 14, 2023

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Architecture and Engineering

Learn what it takes to conceptualize, design, and build a city!

Course by

Marc B

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GRADES:

2nd-5th

WHEN:

Fridays, 2:00pm - 2:45pm

WHERE:

795 Columbus Ave, New York, NY 10025

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Class Description

Help us discover the architect and urban planner in your child as we engineer a metropolis! Over the course of the semester, kids explore what it takes to create a metropolitan area with the goal of developing skills to design their own city of choice. From street layouts and building placement to power source identification, students learn about the challenges that designers face when building cities from scratch. How will we light our street lamps? Let’s learn about hydroelectric power and build a working model of a dam out of clay! How will we cross the rivers that surround our island city? Let’s use popsicle sticks and glue to simulate bridges that traverse these wide spans. By the end of the class, Launch kids use teamwork combined with the knowledge they’ve gained to design their own simulated city!

Additional Topics Include: Engineering Design Process, Machines and Materials, Building Types, Transportation Systems, Building Codes / Environmental Considerations

COURSE FULL PRICE

$1500

$214.29

/ per session

Total sessions:

7

Location:

Starts:

July 14, 2023 at 2:00:00 PM

Spots available:

10

Instructor's reviews

My daughter actually switched to the other section of this class... 3rd-5th Grade, so I don't want to give this teacher a bad review but she had started in this section (K-2), so that's the review I was sent.

Overall, I found this class to be very disappointing. It was listed as a class taught by a Disney Princess and the class ended up having 3 different teachers during the course. This was confusing for the students and didn't offer any cohesiveness. The teachers couldn't even remember the kids names. At the end of the semester, very few songs or dances were actually taught and the kids mostly played games during the hours of the class. The class isn't inexpensive, so for this, I wouldn't gone somewhere else to give my daughter a better experience and have her learn something.

Myrna Wang

2nd Grade Mom

Harry Potter Camp was so much fun! My girls loved making wands and creating potions...and thinking of mischievous ways to stir trouble at Hogwarts! The creative programming was wonderful for this outdoor day camp and kept my girls busy and having a great time. Their only request was that the day lasted longer! They came home and continued creating ideas to keep the magic going. Thank you!

Shanna Tengshe

2nd Grade Mom

I feel that this course is not tailored for K-1 grade. K-1 graders need more moving around, especially after a long day at school, then was made possible by the instructor.

aya.brown

2nd Grade Mom

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Marc B

My name is Marc and I am a STEM educator. My interest in STEM started in Junior High School when I joined the school's First Lego League Robotics team, where our team would go on to win the Queens Division Championship. Since then I have continued my STEM passion as a graduate of NYU Tandon with a BS in Mechanical Engineering.

I have many years of experience as an educator both in public and private schools. I work with students ranging from Pre-K through High School. I’ve been a tutor, after care provider, and even returned to help my High School establish after-school STEM programs.

I’ve ...

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