It is a beautiful day for an egg hunt! See what you can find in Easter eggs. Some chirp, some sing, and some turn into magic things. Join this fun 1-hour class to create your own Easter egg hunt game with coding and enjoy playing it with friends! If your child is new to coding, this is a great introductory class for them to explore MIT's Scratch coding - one of the best programming languages for beginners. For kids who are already familiar with Scratch, our teacher will provide extra challenges for them to build more complex games. After the class, you will find your child more excited and motivated to learn and to code!

They are in your phone, and they are in your car. They light up your house, and they run roller coasters. What are they? They're electronic circuits and they're everywhere! In this fun free online event, your child will learn the basics of electronic circuits using Snap Circuits. We will build several fun projects, while they learn what a circuit is, how circuits work, how to create one, and how to add more parts in a circuit to make sounds, light, and more! They will also learn different components of circuits, and how they can be put together to create a fun system. We are running this roughly on a monthly basis. Each month has a difference theme.

• February - Integrated Circuits 2

New Series

• March - Intro to Snap Circuits

• April - Conductors

• May - Resistors

• June - Integrated Circuits 1

• July - Sensors

• August - Integrated Circuits 2

Love coding or Roblox? We have got you the perfect combination of fun and learning. Join us to play exciting trivia games about coding and the game is held live in Roblox! We will cover Scratch Coding, Roblox Coding, and even some fun trivia about Roblox. It is a great way to see how much you have learned, pick up some new coding skills, and have fun! 

We are very honored to host a senior NASA leader Mrs. Sandra Cauffman for a Q&A session with our students. Mrs. Cauffman currently serves as the Deputy Director for the Astrophysics Division in the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) at NASA Headquarters.  She helps provide executive leadership, strategic direction, and management for the entire agency’s multi-billion Astrophysics programs and missions necessary to discover how the universe works, to explore how the universe began and developed into its present form, and to search for Earth-like planets.

Previously she served as Acting Director in the Earth Science Division from February 2019 to June 2020, and the Deputy Director for the Earth Science Division from May 2016 - October 2021. Sandra worked for 25 years at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on missions such as the mission to Mars MAVEN, and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite GOES-R. Cauffman is the first Costa Rican woman to lead a Mars related mission. 

Mrs. Cauffman has been awarded the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal and she is a two-time recipient of the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal. She is also a four times recipient of the NASA Acquisition Improvement Award, and numerous GSFC and HQ awards.  Her profile has been highlighted by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women for being a positive example for women, especially, youth and children.  Due to her extensive work in outreach and STEM in Costa Rica and Latin America the Government of Costa Rica issued a stamp in her honor in 2017.  

We encourage you to come to this event with questions prepared. A few topics that Sandra is the ideal person to answer questions about include the mission to Mars MAVEN, NASA Earth Sciences, NASA Astrophysics Division, and GOES-R Satellite System. We look forward to seeing you at this special event!