Join us at the Winter 2020 STEM Extreme Virtual Workshop on Friday, December 18, from 3:00-6:00 P.M! The virtual workshop will be held via Zoom for everybody’s safety. A link, meeting ID, passcode, and additional information about the event are on the flyer below.
Background
For the Winter 2020 STEM Extreme Virtual Workshop, I got the Computer Science Club from Trabuco Hills High School and some students from RSM Intermediate to help out. When I took a look at the videos I posted onto the website, the media controls were pretty bad and the general layout and user interface did not look very good because they were directly uploaded to the website. We created the stemextreme youtube channel to post our new and old videos on for a much better user interface and media controls. I assembled a group of people to help create videos and a group of people to reach out to schools for our virtual workshop. Over Thanksgiving Break, the group of creators finished up their videos and I posted them onto the site and youtube channel. Then, our group of organizers reached out to various places, via phone and email, to see if they were interested in having their kids attend our events. We got Melinda Heights and Foothill Ranch Elementary to send out our flyer to the parents and kids two weeks prior to the virtual workshop. This gave the kids plenty of time to watch the videos on the site and to plan to attend our virtual workshop. This year, we added two live projects to the event in addition to the Q&A. In the first project, kids would quickly learn how to program a Lego Mindstorms EV3 robot using block coding. Then, they would have a competition to see who could program the robot to get through our obstacle course the fastest! In the second project, kids would learn how to program Flappy Bird with Scratch!
