Ever wonder what your kids are up to in those games that they play online? Worry no more. The Full STEAM Ahead Gamer’s Club is here to:

• Let kids do what they love while giving parents peace of mind.
• Allow kids to safely socialize around common passions.
• Teach kids strategy and critical thinking as it relates to video games.
• Encourage teamwork and collaboration.
• Teach kids “Video Game Etiquette” and online safety.
• Connect STEM careers and gaming for kids.
• Supervise gameplay to ensure appropriate behavior.
• Develop and appreciation for the art and coding behind the game.
• Student driven–students choose games

How does this fit in with STEAM?

First, there’s things like this: Girl Gamers are more likely to enter STEM Fields
Additionally, our Gamers are able to earn rewards and STEAM Cents by exhibiting these skills and traits:

• Exemplifying “Video Game Etiquette”
• Displaying the Full STEAM Ahead Maker Traits
• Creating a tutorial and publish to Full STEAM Ahead YouTube Channel
• Helping out a less experienced Gamers
• Test and write a game review for a NEW Game
• Create games in Scratch, Unreal Engine, or Unity Engine

Details

Day: Monday
Time: 6-8pm
Ages: recommended for ages 9 to 14

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What games will we play?

Ultimately, game selection is up to the Gamer’s Club. Staff will help organize and suggest games and will monitor usage of all games. Some of the games students might choose to play are:

• Minecraft
• Kerbal Space Program
• Retro Nintendo, Atari, and SNES games
• Scratch Games
• .io games
• Spaceflight Simulator
• Universe Sandbox
• Super Smash Bros 64

Come Support Boy Scout Troop 226

STEAM Challenges, Prizes, and Fun For the Whole Family!

All students and families are welcome to come join us November 17th, 2018 from 2:30-4:30 to help support Boy Scout Troop 226 and their mission to raise money to head to summer camp next summer! We will have STEAM Challenges for students age 9-14 to earn prizes ranging from a month of FREE Unlimited Makerspace to a brand new mini drone.

Sample STEAM Challenge events include:

• Design a 3D Model of a house
• Drive a Robot
• Build a Minecraft structure
• Write simple code in Scratch
• Launch a rocket
• Design a catapult
• Play a song on piano
• …and more!

Cost: $10 per family

View our events calendar to pre-register.

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Coming up in Session 2, starting October 13

Solar Cooking and Engineering Did you know that solar ovens can heat up enough to melt metal? Come join us as we experiment with food, solar energy, and engineering! Sign up

3D Printing and Modeling 3D Printing We’ve raised our 3D Printing game to the next level, so should you! Fishing lures, pottery, scorpions, Batman. If you can dream it, you can print it. Sign up

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Date: October 7th and 14th, 2018
Time: 1pm – 3pm
Ages: All Ages (kids, parents, grandparents)
PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT

Anglers rejoice! This family workshop is designed to bring together fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, and all lovers of fishing and/or making awesome things. Catching fish with your child is an endlessly rewarding and enjoyable activity. Catching a fish with a lure that you made together? Good luck topping that.

After having personally spent hundreds of dollars on lures over the years, I finally asked myself, “how hard could it be to make my own?” Armed with 3D Printers at my disposal and a variety of paints, varnishes, hooks, and other miscellany, I set out to produce my own lures. Much to my surprise, it actually worked!

In this workshop, I’ll be sharing with you my ideas, mistakes, successes, and teaching you everything you need to know to produce you’re own 3D Printed fishing lures. Each family will get to leave with 2 completed fishing lures, customized to catch the kind of fish they want to catch. After attending the workshop, you’ll be equipped to make your very own lures any time you want!

During this workshop:

• Learn to design a lure with 3D Modeling
• 3D Print your lure
• Assemble, weight, paint, and seal your custom creation
• Add eyelets, hooks, split rings
• Test your lure in the canal across the parking lot – BYO Fishing Rod!
• Watch some sports on our big projectors and TVs! It’s Sunday, after all.

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Full S.T.E.A.M. Ahead partners with the Gargiulo Education Center to provide post-hurricane Irma enrichment programs for area students

NAPLES, Fl. (Sept. 25th, 2017) — In an effort to provide relief to working parents during recovery efforts from Hurricane Irma, Full S.T.E.A.M. Ahead and the Gargiulo Education Center partnered for 3 days from September 20th through the 22nd to give students from both organizations an opportunity to return to normalcy. With Full S.T.E.A.M. Ahead’s home base at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church unavailable due to a lack of power and water intrusion from the storm, organizers reached out to the education community to find a place to host some single day mini-camps.

In a symbiotic turn for both organizations, the Gargiulo Education Center, whose mission it is to provide support and enrichment for children in migrant families in Naples, had an empty building due to a lack of grant funding and staffing for the unexpected extended hurricane school cancellations. Full S.T.E.A.M. Ahead, who had the staffing and curriculum ready and waiting, was able to move their stuff in for a pop-up educational experience. More than 50 students affected by Hurricane Irma were able to get back to learning STEM, music, and Art after being out of school for almost 2 weeks.

Recognizing an opportunity to help their local community in a time of need, Full S.T.E.A.M. Ahead offered discounted tuition to their existing students and offered free tuition for Gargiulo students coming from nearby migrant camps. All students were treated to 3 days of 3D printing, robotics, ukulele, electronics, art, and engaging learning.

“We are always looking for ways to reach underrepresented populations with our S.T.E.A.M. program,” said Full S.T.E.A.M. Ahead co-founder Ryan Shore, “so this opportunity to join our two communities was especially important to us at a time when so many families are just trying to get back to normal.”

“We are hoping that this is the start to a long-lasting relationship between Full S.T.E.A.M. Ahead and Gargiulo.” Shore added.   

Many of the students attending the program through both organizations were still without power as of the first day of the program. All students and teachers in attendance lost power and sustained some sort of damage to their home or property.