Love Minecraft? Want to become a redstone engineer? 

Learn the basics of the engineering design process through the endless sandbox game of Minecraft and the game’s electricity equivalent. Plan and build circuits using redstone to understand the flow of energy in a system and learn cool novelties of Minecraft redstone. In this introductory redstone engineering course, students will learn basic redstone components and their function(s) which will be used to design simple circuits and builds to enhance or automate the Minecraft experience.

Grades 6 to 12.

Interested in automation or creating powerful scripts in Python? Begin to Explore programming jargon and formatting used in Python scripts and create your own games using Pygame. 

In this introductory Python course, students will learn the basics of programming using boolean logic, conditional statements, variables, and loops to create simple Python scripts and games.

Grades 6 to 12.

Humans have been casting metal for aroud 6000 years. A copper frog is the oldest existing casting currently known; it is estimated that it was made in 3200 BC in Mesopotami. Modern casting can be much more complex, but it doesn't have to be.

In this  5-day program, students will learn about metal casting as an art form. Students will create molds that will be included in Mixxer's Night of Fire - Iron Pour event in September, plus make a metal casting to take home that week.

This program is for students in grades 9 thru 12 only.

Love music? Well now you can learn to create your own! Discover the process of sampling, editing, and recording to make your own music from start to finish using Cakewalk by Bandlab. In this introductory course, students will learn the basic User Interface (UI) of the Bandlab Online Editor, an easier-to-use online DAW modeled after Cakewalk. Students will learn how to compose or adapt musical pieces using real or virtual instruments and effects to create musical pieces within their interest.

Grades 6 to 12.