Circuit City

Everything You Need To Know

Circuit City 101 aims to provide a wonderful curriculum of engaging activities encompassing circuitry, solar panels, breadboards, LED lights, and even learning how to code! Students have the opportunity to make various projects based on these topics, that they can take home! Students work on these projects in conjunction to understanding the Engineering Design Process. All while learning about how these certain topics have a huge influence here in NYC! For Example did you know… it took 32,256 Philips Luxeon Rebel LEDs to light the Times Square Ball for the 2018 New Years that’s 16 million colors and billions of patterns can be produced by the Ball!

Download the big picture matrix to learn more about the content integrated into each week. STEM is best learned in the context of other subjects fostering creativity, originality and critical thinking among students and teachers.

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Learning Objectives

Over the course of 10 weeks, students will:

Understand the concept of the Engineering Design Process
Learn about the importance of the four different parts of a circuit (Battery source, Electrical load, conductors, switch
Identify why circuitry is essential to run in a city like NYC
Learn about coding and how programmers code video game using Scratch
Identify the efficiency of using solar panels and how it saves energy
Learn how the use of LED lights are used in various parts of NYC and why they are so efficient for usage

Program Flow

Week 1 - An intro to Engineering Design Process (EDP) enables students to grasp the importance of trial and error.

Week 2 - Scribble Bots are a fun interactive way of understanding the path of electric circuits by making a bot move around using DC motors

Week 3 - Breadboard Bugs are small and adorable, but how do their LED's light up?

Week 4 - Solar Cockroach - Small electronic creatures, that are powered by the sun!

Week 5 - Scratch Programming - Learning hasn't been more fun, what better way to program than to make games from scratch (excuse the pun)

Week 6 - Origami/LED projects help students learn about paper circuitry with a creative combination of origami and LED's

Week 7 - LED Holiday cards are a fun holiday card project in which students can create their own Holiday card and light it up to impress their loved ones

Weeks 8-10 - Students spend the last 3 weeks to revisit a prior project to make it more creative and their own! This gives students an opportunity to truly learn the concept of the Engineering Design Process!

Pricing

The fee for this 10-week Exploration is $345 per week and includes:

Instructor for up to 2 hours a day, meeting once a week
Durable and consumable supplies for up to 25 students
Complete curriculum and digital teaching materials that can be used in perpetuity by our clients

Registration

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