Join this free, live virtual event to start creating with one of the most powerful elements in Minecraft - Redstone. Through a series of fun activities and puzzle-solving, students will be introduced to how different power sources such as Redstone blocks, torches, and switches can be used to power blocks around them in different ways. These skills will form the foundation of creating more advanced structures that can be powered up or automated. The same event is run once every month.

If you want to become an expert in building advanced Minecraft structure with powered sources, join the full course Minecraft Redstone Engineering class to build automatics doors, flying machines, and a lot more.

If you are interested in learning coding using Minecraft or creating Minecraft mini-games, then sign up for Minecraft Coding Quest.

Notes:

• This free event is not required for taking Minecraft Redstone Engineering or Minecraft Coding Quest classes.

• Free events will likely have a lot more students than our regular classes, which at capped by 3-5 students per class.

Does your child love Minecraft? This awesome 1-hour free event will introduce your child to another dimension of Minecraft - Learn Coding!. We will setup Minecraft Education first and then get everyone started on a self-guided tutorial that teaches basics of block coding on Minecraft. Your child will be introduced to Minecraft coding by completing a series of challenges with code to save the future by solving mysterious mishaps in time.

For students who enjoy Minecraft or want to learn more advanced coding skills after Scratch coding, join our small group Minecraft Coding Quest classes with experienced teachers. We will go a lot deeper into Minecraft coding and build fun structures like super long roller coasters or Minecraft mini-games all with code! Learn and have a fun ride! :)

Notes - This free event covers the same content each time and will have many students attending unlike our small group classes which include 3-5 students max.

From self-driving cars, humanoids to AI generated art and ChatGPT, AI is one of the fast growing areas in technology. What is AI? What are some of the cool things it can do? Join this event to learn fun cutting-edge AI applications created by companies like Google and Nvidia. Your child will enjoy lots of group discussions, interaction with the instructor, and hands-on projects.

We run this free event regularly and the same content is covered every time. To explore deeper about AI, checkout our small group courses:

• AI Explorers (grades 4 - 7) - a broad overview of a variety AI applications and technologies, such as computer vision, Chatbot, robotics, and generative AI.

• Create with ChatGPT - (grades 4 -7) - learn how to use ChatGPT as a tool for panning, brainstorming, and creating your own chatbot.

• AI Creators (grades 6-12) - deep dive to learn how to code AI applications covering in Python.

(Students who have completed the Create with ChatGPT can join this class for free by entering code PTEVENT during sign up)

Does your child love Scratch coding, but you've found it challenging to get them help when they need it? Wouldn't it be nice to have a personal coding coach that is always ready to help? With the recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence, this is almost becoming a reality, but only to students who know how to use it well. 

In this fun live online event, we will explore how to use ChatGPT AI to help us create awesome Scratch projects. Students should have a solid understanding of Scratch coding foundations (Scratch Ninja 2 level or above) to get the most out of this class. If your child is new to Scratch coding, join our free Scratch Ninja (grades 2-5) or Accelerated Scratch (grades 6+) class to learn the fundamentals of coding.

We will start by introducing ChatGPT, and demonstrate how to use it to get a variety of questions about Scratch coding answered. We will then try to create a game by working together with ChatGPT. Please encourage your student to come up with some project ideas or things they'd like to make ahead of time. We will pick some ideas to demonstrate how to get started with assistance from ChatGPT. 

Check out this spooky-good FREE coding event for beginners. In this live virtual event, we will utilize MIT's Scratch coding to create personalized Halloween animations like a witch, ghost, or anything imaginable. Students will learn how to choose, upload, or draw a sprite, with additional opportunities to add special effects and animate their creations. Anything made in this class is a great choice to add to a portfolio. This event is suited for students who are new to coding to explore how to make animations, and for students with a previously established coding foundation to learn new ways to build characters and add unique attributes. Save your spot for free today!

Marc Rayman is chief engineer for mission operations and science at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He is also chief engineer of the Psyche mission. Psyche is both the name of an asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter and the NASA mission to visit this asteroid. The mission will be the first time we explore a world not made of rock or ice, but of metal. Psyche offers a unique window into the fascinating history of collisions and accretion that created terrestrial planets.

Marc grew up in Toledo, Ohio, and earned a B.A. in physics from Princeton University, and an M.S. in physics from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Marc joined JPL in 1986 and his work there has included optical interferometry missions to detect planets around other stars, design of a mission to return samples from Mars, a laser altimeter for Mars, the Spitzer infrared space telescope and the development of systems to use lasers to communicate with interplanetary spacecraft among others. He led the Deep Space 1 mission launched in 1998 which took NASA's first close-up pictures of the nucleus of a comet. Marc was chief engineer, mission director, and project manager on the Dawn mission that explored the two largest uncharted worlds in the inner solar system, Dawn and Vesta. It is the only spacecraft ever to orbit two extraterrestrial destinations.

His many accolades from NASA include three Exceptional Achievement Medals and four Outstanding Leadership Medals. He was named a JPL Fellow, the highest technical position there, "for extraordinary technical contributions made over an extended period."