Courses
Fall 2020 Virtual Super Saturdays
Course Offerings
Courses are filled on a first-come, first-served basis. You will be in the same class for three weeks. If the first choice is filled, you will be placed in the next available class.
1) Experimenting, Exploring, and Creating Art with Science, grade 1, Ashley Davison
Do you enjoy creating art and doing science experiments? If you do you will love
this class! Join us in exploring new ways to make art through experimentation with
common household items and basic art materials. Artists, curious minds, and scientists
unite to create art that is unique, exciting, and sometimes a bit messy! I can’t wait
to make amazing art experiments with you!
2) Amazing Science Lab, grade 1, Lyndsey Duke-Brooks
Did you know that your kitchen is one big chemistry lab? As junior chemists, we’ll
explore colors, solids, liquids, gases, polymers, chemical reactions, mixtures, solutions,
and more. You can learn to be a scientist right in your own kitchen through the experiments
we’ll do together. No fancy laboratory is required!?
3) All Things Matter, grades 2 & 3, Lori Darnell & Nikki Nicholas Preston
This class is full and is no longer taking registrations.
Elephant Toothpaste, Pop Rocks, balloon inflations...oh my! In this class, as junior
scientists, you will get to join in on lots of hands-on activities while exploring
all the states of matter. We will be using things that you can find around your house
to make fun and, sometimes, EXPLODING experiments. We hope you will join in to be
one of our scientists!
4) Animals Surviving a Harsh Planet, grades 2 & 3, Justin Moreschi
This class is full and is no longer taking registrations.
In a brutal world filled with predators and impossible elements, how do animals survive?
Join this class of animal scientists as we analyze the adaptations of animals and
their organic solutions to Earth's deadliest situations. You will observe actual animal
samples and design animals that can survive in a chosen habitat.
5) Think Outside the (Artist) Box, grades 2 & 3, Andee Rudloff and Nicole Agro
Join our colorful and creative journey into the world of art. We’ll dive into all
sorts of fun ways to have amazing art experiences. In this class, creativity, problem-solving,
and fun are the magic words to turn everyday art materials into fantastic art treasures.
6) Mad Scientist Mania, grades 2 & 3, Madison Wells Staton
Calling all mad scientists! Join us for exciting experiments and creative engineering
challenges as we build our own science labs at home. We will use our scientific knowledge
and engineering skills to discover the science that is all around us using supplies
found at home.
7) Master Mathematicians, grades 3 & 4, Kierra Chandler
Do you want to become a master mathematician? Then join our journey with numbers
as we explore fun and challenging games, puzzles, and exciting missions. We may even
search for treasure or write some secret codes! Get ready to create, solve, and discover
as you become a master mathematician!
8) What Makes Me, Me?, grades 3 & 4, Kari Corsi - Cancelled
9) Escape! Create Your Own Breakout Room, grades 3 & 4, Hayley Pack
This class is full and is no longer taking registrations.
Have you ever solved a mystery before ALL the clues were given? Would you consider
yourself a clever detective? If you pay close attention to details, are an exceptional
code cracker, or a positive problem-solver then you are up to the challenges that
await. Choose your favorite mystery book and using technology, you will learn how
to create your own digital escape room for your peers and friends to solve! (Students will need some experience with Google tools such as Google Sites, Google
Forms, and Google Slides).
10) STEM at Home, grades3 & 4, Catherine Poteet
Are you ready for some creating, building, testing, calculating, and discovering?
Then this class filled with design experiments is just for you. You’ll use calculations,
data analysis, and other components to build and shoot straw rockets, launch parachutes,
make egg drop devices, and so much more. Only the most curious minds are needed in
this STEM at home laboratory.
11) Together or Apart We Create from our Hearts, grades 4 & 5, Christy Matthews
Come explore how different tools around your home can be used to create all kinds
of artwork. We’ll make robot prints, design an “unmasking yourself” portrait, make
our own paintbrushes and our own clay (which we will turn into dinosaurs), and learn
how you can express yourself and who you are creatively through art, even from a distance.
12) Documentaries for Social Change, grades 4 & 5, Vanessa Hutchison Miller - Cancelled
Think you can only find waves at the ocean? Think again! Waves are always around you,
tricking your eyes and ears every day! Where do the rainbows we see in bubbles come
from? Why do optical illusions through your brain for a loop? What are holograms and
how do we make them? Join us as we explore how something invisible and silent brings
all of the color and sound to our world!
14) Survival Team-Up, grades 4 & 5, Matthew Howell
Why does the world's largest flower smell like rotten meat? Who invented farming
before humans? Can a tree have its own army? Learn about the cool ways animals and
plants team up to survive (and what you can learn from their secrets!). It turns out
that teamwork is not just for sports.
15) Extreme Survival Experts, grades 5 & 6, Felicia Moreschi
This class is full and is no longer taking registrations.
Do you love watching TV shows like “Ultimate Survival,” “Man vs. Wild,” “Mountain
Men,” “Get Out Alive,” or “Survivorman”? Are you fascinated by the survival strategies
the stars of these shows use? Then join us for a chance to learn all about the ORIGINAL
survival experts: Native Americans! We will explore survival strategies used by Native
Americans that made them successful at hunting, fishing, building shelter, fighting,
traveling, and more.
16) The Solution Squad, grades 5 & 6, Kayla Spurgeon
This class is full and is no longer taking registrations.
If you enjoy creating amazing and challenging science projects, The Solution Squad
is for you. This class is packed full of hands-on investigations that will get you
designing, creating, and testing your own ideas. From making your own microscope to
designing a balloon car, this class is full of fun science experiments AND solutions!
All inquisitive minds are welcomed in The Solution Squad!!!
17) Engineering a Rescue, grade 6, Melissa Rudloff
What does it take to design a personal flotation device, coordinate a mountain rescue,
or provide critical supplies by air to a hard-to-reach area? Explore the engineering
design process in these fun and challenging hands-on, minds-on sessions where we develop
the prototypes of various life-saving items in an attempt to beat the clock and meet
the challenge in front of us. Critical thinking and problem-solving join with science
and math as we brainstorm, design, build, and test our creations.
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