MIDDLE SCHOOL LEGO ROBOTICS

Grades:

5 - 8

Dates:

Thursdays, beginning October 6th

Time:

75 minute class (2:30 -3:45)

Program:

Two 9 week sessions

Tuition:

$225 per session

Location:

Pawling Middle School

Materials Fee:

n/a

Instructor:

Bob Reilly

Would you like to engineer a LEGO MINDSTORMS robot to complete fun tasks and cool challenges with your team mates? A Mayan King's Treasure has been discovered. There are booby traps on the path to the treasure room. He used trained monkeys to disable the traps. Now it's up to you to design, build, and program Lego robots to safely enter the treasure room. There are six traps to overcome. In this class students will organize two teams, create team names, build robots and then challenge the other team to up to six battles on the challenge field. The cornerstones of this program emphasize friendly sportsmanship, contributions of others, learning, team work and community involvement. We will utilize theme-based challenges to engage kids in research, problem solving, beginning computer programming, and engineering. Each February Lego Mindstorm challenges are held across the country. This program, taught by Bob Reilly, hopes to send a team to this year's contest.

ACEKIDS! THEATRE PROGRAM

“The Tempest”
ACEKIDS! Theatre Program
May, 2011

Grades:

3 - 8

Dates:

Thursdays, beginning September 22

Time:

2 hour class (3:30 - 5:30)

Program 1:

10 sessions through December

Tuition:

$95

Program 2:

16 sessions, beginning January 12

Tuition:

$152

Location:

Pawling Elementary School

Instructor:

Amy Emke

Students in grades 3 - 8 will learn the fundamentals of acting technique through the use of theatre games and improvisations. The use of focused improvisations will help these students develop an understanding of dramatic conflict and narrative structure, as well as how to make a scene more realistic through sense-memory techniques. Voice projection, relaxation techniques, character development and scene study will be included as the students work on developing a production of Shakepeareʼs “Macbeth”, to be performed April 20, 2012 at Pawling Elementary School and on April 21 at the Akin Library and Natural History Museum.

Middle school students who wish to participate in the ACEkids! Theatre Program can wait with an ACEkids! staff member at the middle school and take the "Town" bus to the elementary school at 4 p.m.

Please note: unlike in previous years, this program will not be accepting new students in the second session. Students who wish to participate in this yearʼs production must join during the first session!