Fall · winter · Spring
Fall Break CAMP
S.T.E.M. Classes For Kids
Engage your child to their full nerd potential with our week-long STEM classes held over Fall break, Winter break, and Spring break. Your nerd will thrive as they learn about highly engaging STEM topics through metric tons of exciting hands-on activities!
OPEN TO EVERYONE!
*Registration handled by CUSD via Eleyo
Fall Break
Now Enrolling!
OPEN TO EVERYONE!
*Registration handled by CUSD via Eleyo
October 3-7
Ryan Elementary
4600 Bright Angel Way, Chandler, AZ 85249 MAP
Grades 1-2
9am - 12pm
Space Explorers
Join the NERD Astronaut Training Program! Explore the solar system, experiment with cosmic forces, and launch rockets. Land Mars rovers, create comets, and build your own space station. Discover, imagine, and learn in this out-of-this-world adventure for star-gazers and adventurers alike!
October 10-14
Hancock Elementary
2425 S Pleasant Dr, Chandler, AZ 85286 MAP
Grades 3-6
9am - 12pm
Electric Inventions
Learn the shocking secrets of electronic circuits and make inventions of your own using wire, copper tape, LEDs, motors, and batteries! Also use a fun tool called a Makey Makey to build fruit pianos, gummy game controllers, and wacky keyboards!
1pm - 4pm
Virtual Reality: Design & Code
Learn the mechanics of how virtual reality (VR) works and develop your very own VR games! Code using a block-based coding language and create everything from digital zoos to obstacle courses then enter your games and 3D spaces using our VR headsets!
OPEN TO EVERYONE!
*Registration handled by CUSD via Eleyo
Half or Full Day
Class Times
Attend all day and stay for lunch by signing up for an AM and a PM class!
Lunch is not provided. Please pack your own if attending all day.
$195
per class
Nerding's
Class Structures
How we run classes at each grade level.
Our Little Nerd classes are engaging and exciting and vary greatly in content and structure, but in some form there is always an engaging, interactive lesson from the teacher, guided practice, and independent or small group work with help and support from peers and staff.
We usually begin the day with a team building activity and move into our first lesson. Next is a hands-on activity or project. Halfway through the class, kids will take a brief recess and snack break. A second lesson follows break and the kids will do another project/activity or continue one they were working on.
Bottom line: It's hands-on, interactive, fun learning.
Our Big Nerds classes have 2 types: regular classroom classes and computer lab* classes. The regular classroom classes run very similarly in format to the Little Nerds classes, essentially lesson, building/work, break, lesson, building/work. It's always fun and engaging with hands-on projects!
Our computer lab* classes are Graphic Design, Virtual Reality, Coding Games, and 3D Printing. All of them require design or coding software that we provide account access for. The class will be based around learning that software to design or code the assigned projects. In addition to instruction on the software, all of these classes include lessons about how to connect what we are learning to the real world. There may be some building of physical projects mixed in, and we will certainly take breaks, but the majority of the class is spent working in the lab.
*We strongly recommend against taking 2 computer lab classes in the same week. It’s too much sitting and screen time! Mix and match with a non-computer lab class if your nerd stays all day!