**Take your building skills to a new level as you make remote-controlled projects using Lego components. Learn about gears, electric power, and motors as we create projects which move with Lego Power Functions electronics and remotes. Projects include a ranger vehicle that races up and down ramps, a robot that moves supplies around, a hopping frog, a bulldozer that can clean-up a messy floor of bricks, and a friendly scorpion that plays soccer!
You'll control all of your creations and have them race through obstacle courses, push objects, and even play games. You'll leave with a better understanding of how to power Lego creations, use mechanisms for movement, and how to become better at designing and solving building challenges with Lego components.
When we're done with our remote-control projects, we'll learn about coding and giving instructions to objects and robots. From app-based games to tabletop robots, we'll explore visual coding and learn programming logic.**
The year is 2025. Our rocket ship has landed on a distant planet and our class has been asked to make it a comfortable place to live and explore. We'll build homes, rovers, machines and spacecraft - and power them with LEGO® motors. Plus, we'll get to create a speeder for a visiting Star Wars® heroine named Rey.
The projects include:
- A space home with rotating 'solar panels' above the roof powered by a LEGO® motor
- All-terrain rover equipped with a satellite dish to explore the planet and report findings back to base
- Motorized robot to move boulders and transport supplies
- Spacecraft to travel around the planet
- Twin-engine Star Wars speeder
- Use of special colorful light bricks for illumination
This class is great for a LEGO® fanatic as well as someone new to the world of construction. Students learn how to incorporate gears and light bricks into projects, use battery packs and motors for power, interlock bricks for strength, and make sturdy connections with LEGO Technic® beams and pegs. Students play with and test out their creations through obstacle courses, imaginative play, and various teacher-inspired missions.
Time Schedule
9 AM - 3:30 PM (All-Day Option)
9 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM - 3:30PM
Aurora School handles the registration process
Please note the following regarding the classes at this Fremont site:
- The Fremont Recreation Dept. handles the registration process
- Fremont Recreation Dept. Does Not offer an early bird or multi-session discount