District 196 Community Education

Learn how to use Minecraft Command blocks to do crazy things in the Minecraft world.  Create self-building houses, ride the ender dragon, or create a working rocket ship!  Discover command basics and show how to copy and edit pre-made commands.  

Learn the basics of electronics, robot building and soldering as you construct your own line-following robot. Students get to keep the robots they build. Class taught by members of Eagan FRC Robotics team and volunteers.  Each class session material is the same. Dave Hendricksen and Eagan Robotics Team.”

Learn how drones work and how to change their programming as they modify small quadcopters to higher levels of performance while working with the basics of programming and engineering. Keep your drone, battery safety bag and the programming equipment. Class taught by members of Eagan FRC Robotics team and volunteers. Please register for one 8-hour session.  Pizza lunch included.

Bring Star Wars inspired inventions to life — with the Star Wars Lego Mindstorms Robotics Developer kit. Start with a simple droid mechanism and then move on to more ambitious droids that move and walk. This modular building system lets student’s build using subassemblies, making it easy to create and customize the robotic droids. All these great robotic inventions are powered by the Micro Scout, the smallest LEGO microcomputer, equipped with light sensor, and six robotic programs to control our droid creations. Possible Models include Droid Vehicle, Trainer Droids, our version of R2D2 and more! Experiment with robotic programs that avoid light, seek light, and are controlled by lights, act as alarms and more. 

From a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars comes to life! Work on a stop-motion animated LEGO® Star Wars movie. Pick your characters to star in your own mini-movie ... the possibilities are endless. Star Wars action figures, LEGO bricks and backdrops will be available for filming in class. Handle all of the technical details including using a digital movie camera, filming scenes, stop-motion animation, digital editing and adding finishing special effects and transitions to the movie. In this exciting hands-on learning class, learn the entire digital film making steps from start to finish using Frames Software.

Learn about website layout and design. Discover the basics needed for website design and create your very own website.  Class taught by Eagan Robotics team and volunteers.