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Creative Robotics Workshops @Schools

Build-It-Yourself offers workshops at schools, after-school sites and camps. For a proposal, please contact Build-It-Yourself at:

Email
Phone: 617-875-1960

After-school (Boston area) proposal template
Summer camp (Boston area) proposal template
Brochure copy suggestions
Web Picture Posting Policy and Waiver Form

Webcast workshop proposal template

Build-It-Yourself proposals are predicated on the assumption that many parents will pay $12 - $20 per hour for constructive after school programs.  

Typical on-site workshop fees are $1,250 for eight 1.25 hour classes or $3,000 for camps that run five days, 6 hours per day.  A workshop may have up to 12  students ages 8 - 12.

The after-school Webcast  workshop fee is $950 for ten 1-hour classes.  

The summer camp Webcast workshop fee is $2,000 for camps that run five days, 5 hours per day.  

A workshop may have up to 12  students ages 8 - 13.

Hardware, Software and Infrastructure Requirements

Build-It-Yourself customers include:
- Las Hayas, Xalapa, Mexico
- Buckingham, Browne & Nichols, Cambridge, MA
- The Pierce School, Brookline, MA
- The Concord Academy, Concord, MA
- Riverside Middle School, Riverside, RI
- Jamestown School, Jamestown, RI
- Cranston Middle School, Cranston, RI
- Renbrook School, West Hartford, CT
- The Lawrence School, Brookline, MA
- The Winn Brook School, Belmont, MA
- The Kingsley Montessori School, Boston, MA
- Camp Gan Israel, Hartford, CT
- Chenery School, Belmont, MA
- La Mesa School District, La Mesa, CA 
- After-school program for Microsoft employees, 
   Bellevue, WA
- Lawrence Academy, Groton, MA
- Cambridge Montessori School, Cambridge, MA

Goals for each student
1) be safe
2) be engaged
3) have fun
4) get a constructive result

The Build-It-Yourself Global Laboratory
Enter a world where art, technology, and science merge in exciting, unusual ways.  In the Build-It-Yourself global laboratory, specialists from the Harvard/ MIT community and from around the world inspire and guide students to build via live Webcasts.

Please note: Build-It-Yourself programs are rigorous.  It is essential that students who enroll, come eager to build, ready to open their minds, willing to work on teams, and prepared to focus intently on tasks such as drawing, documenting ideas in a lab book, using hot glue guns safely, building complex mechanisms, programming computers and presenting their work.

Creative Robotics Workshop:
Build robots from LEGO Mindstorms and premium quality junk that play music, dance, greet friends, earn money, deliver candy, tell time and more. Stamp you inventions, "Made on another planet." Then present your projects on the Web. Your mission is to build machines that solve a problem and make your friends  say, "Wow, how did you do that?"

Build-It-Yourself challenges are posted at:
http://www.build-it-yourself.com/project/index-project.html

Web Design Workshop:
Imagine that you want to make friends with aliens from another universe. You need to tell them who you are. You must design a Website that describes your life on the planet earth. 

Learn the structure of the Internet and of a web site.  Use common text, audio, vector and pixel editors to write HTML code and integrate text, photos, graphics, audio and video.  The Build-It-Yourself Web Design Workshop will introduce you to tricks that will make your Web sites jump off the screen and make your friends say, "Wow, how did you do that?" 

Game Design Workshop:
Do you like unusual computer games?  The next generation of computer games will have a new dimension … exotic, real world, robotic characters that jump right off the screen onto a real playing field.  Build-It-Yourself is looking for a team of hot shot 'gamers' who will design computer controlled robots in a game environment. Your robots will be powerful characters in role playing games, strategy games, pin-ball machines, or sports competitions. 

Digital Media Design:
Would you like to design eye-catching, wicked cool posters, calendars, comic books, web sites, animated presentations and reports? Graphic designers from Build-It-Yourself will show you how to push Power Point to the limit and make your graphics pop off the screen in Photoshop. Basic graphic design principles will be presented and then exercised using popular tools.

Instructors:
John Galinato is the chief engineer at Build-It-Yourself in Cambridge. John has a  Master's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell and has worked on engineering teams to develop submarine technology, space probes, computer graphics software and Internet applications. 

Build-It-Yourself brings a variety of expertise and specialists into the classroom via a live Webcast platform including students who are studying at Harvard, MIT, Yale, Mass College of Art and Cornell.

John Galinato - MEE Cornell
Liu Huan - MIT 2010, Computer Science and Robotics
Naseem Makiya - Harvard 2008, Psychology and Film
Stephen Wong - Cornell 2010 Electrical Engineering
Valeria Roman - Science Journalist, Argentina
Lindley Graham - MIT 2010, Aeronautical Engineering
Tim Rades - MIT 2009, Physics and Music
Iman Sakkaf - Yale 2011, English and Art
Daniel Langkilde - Chalmers, Sweden 2011, Engineering Physics