SMARTech Summer Camp

This is heuristic and immersive learning done right! 

Students participate in challenging team projects to explore, discover and learn the basic principles, concepts and terminology of Science, Mathematics, Architecture and Robotics Technology using LEGO®, fischertechnik and other construction kits. Each class is a project-based lesson designed to promote teamwork & help students develop critical thinking skills that are necessary for personal & academic success. Learn well and have great fun!

SMARTech Saturday Workshop: Accelerated Learning  Class

• Workshop A: prepares students for SMARTech II; Fee: $50 *

• Workshop B: prepares students for SMARTech III; Fee; $50 *

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Only highly motivated students will be admitted into accelerated learning classes. *Add $2 for online payment processing fee.  

Schedule

Registration & Fee

Camp Schedule:

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Location

Time

Camp RPV: View Map

Activity Room at Ryan Park, 
30359 Hawthorne Blvd, 
RPV, CA 90275. 

Camp Lomita: View Map

Durham Hall at Saint Mark's Church,
24027 Pennsylvania Ave, 
Lomita, CA 90717. 

Camp MB: View Map 

Manhattan Heights Park Rec Room
1600 Manhattan Beach Blvd.
Manhattan Beach, CA, 90266

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Rancho Palos Verdes

morning camp: 10 am - 1 pm

afternoon camp: 2 pm - 5 pm

Sat. Workshop: AM: 10-1; PM: 2-5

Lomita

morning camp: 9 am - 12 pm
afternoon camp: 1 pm - 4 pm

Sat. Workshop, AM: 9-12; PM: 1-4

Manhattan Beach 

morning camp: 9 am - 12 pm
afternoon camp: 1 pm - 4 pm

Academic

Professional 

Practical: Hands-On, Minds-On

Math

Architecture

Programming/binary logic

Science

Design

Modeling/Prototyping

Physics

Engineering

Robotics Technology

Modern Pyramid: Aim High!

Discovery and learning by doing: Designed to promote teamwork and help develop critical thinking skills, each camp is a weeklong project-based lesson where students are encouraged to brainstorm as a team, identify problems and come up with creative solutions to challenging architectural, engineering and technology problems using different construction kits.

By building dozens of models students learn the underlining engineering principles. They construct various architectural structures, all sorts of simple and motorized (battery powered) machines, different types of bridges, houses and robots, both simple and programmable ones that can perform useful tasks.

Immersive Learning: As they experiment with Robotics students learn the basic concepts of computer programming, simple and complex binary logic, performance review, evaluation, outcome measurement and troubleshooting techniques. Using  icon-based graphical software programs as well as remote control units, students will be required to program robots that can perform real tasks using input information obtained from various sensors -- touch, light, sound, temperature and ultrasonic sensors.

Lego City. Source: wikipedia.org

The Burj Khalifa: at 828 m (2,717 ft) world's tallest man-made structure ever built. Location: Dubai, UAE.

Source: Flickr. 

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), an architectural and engineering firm based in Chicago and New York was the chief engineer and architect of the tower. Germany's fischer group, the parent company of fischertechnik supplied 50,000 high bond anchors for this architectural marvel. The lead contractor, Korea’s Samsung E & C completed the construction work in a joint venture with Belgium's Besix and the UAE's Arabtec.

Primary Objective 

Structured to help students work in an open-ended, investigative  environment that spurs their imagination, each student is encouraged to learn at his/her own optimum capabilities. We offer an opportunity to be engaged in a self-paced discovery, exploration and learning adventure while having great fun. The goal is to help students learn teamwork and develop  critical reasoning skills that are necessary for personal and academic success.