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WizKidz Science and Technology Centers

 
 
 
 

1152 Auburn Rd. Dacula, GA. 30019
678-377-1078
Hours of Operation
Mon-Fri 12pm- 7pm
Saturday 10am- 5pm

 


 

Class Schedules
 
Details and Registration
 
1.  Please view the level descriptions and choose the best option for your child.  We offer level evaluations on a request only basis.
 
2.  Classes are offered in 5 and 6 week modules.
 
3. Classes are limited to 12 students
 
4. There are NEVER any registration or enrollment fees.
 
5. Combined classes are available.  For example choose a robotics class  on Monday and Forensic Science class on Thursday.  You choose the days that are more accommodating based on the students schedule.
 
6. There are two different price tiers for various courses.  For example, the robotics course gives students the option to keep their robot once the course is complete. Optional price tiers will be listed for each course.
 
 
7.  Students are required to come prepared to class wearing their Flight Suits and Lab coats at EACH class.
 
8.  Classes and days are subject to change.
 
9.  Payment Plans are available.
 
10. Sibling discounts available and two or more class discounts available.
 
 
 
 
     
Class Descriptions
 
Robotics and Computing

 

PeeWee Engineers
Class Code: PWER
Grades K-2
Mon-Fri. 4:30-5:30 
Saturdays 10am-11:30am
See detailed schedule and fees here
This beginner class exposes K-2 students to engineering, robotics and computing using the LEGO WeDo platform and K'Nex Building System.  Students develop standards based skills by building and programming smart robots and structures in a step by step learning process. The user friendly software and hands-on activities provides students with the needed tools to put their creativity into practice.  Students use real working motors and sensors, and graphic based programming to bring their robotic creations to life.
 
      


Beginner Robotics and Computing
LEGO NXT 2.0 Robotic Building System
Class Code:  BRC1
Grades 3-5
Wednesday 4:30-5:30 or 6pm-7pm
Saturday 12:00-1:30
See detailed schedule and fees here
 This course will introduce students in grades 3-5 to robotic platforms and programming languages that involve real world applications used to solve real world problems. Students learn mechanical design, construction, programming and teamwork skills. In small teams, using motors and sensors, students will explore gears and pulleys, build and control moon rovers, and finally build a robot that can find its own way and avoid obstacles on a moon terrain and rock simulation. Activities become more enhanced and challenge the students to solve real life engineering scenarios using robotics.  Students will also use computing programs to teach their robot to move and react in order to solve challenges.  Robotic platforms to include: LEGO Education and VEX. Students are also exposed to 3-D virtual programming using SCRATCH.
 
     

 
Intermediate Robotics and Computing
Class Code: IRC1
Grades 3-5
Tuesday 4:30-5:30 or 6pm-7pm
See detailed schedule and fees here

This course is designed to teach basic principles of Physical Science and Engineering through construction of the robots. Students learn behavioral objectives, mechanical and computer debugging, basic programming using BASIC Stamp, and more. 
Students build robots designed to navigate through simple mazes, build robots designed to make their way through a mock “mine field”, build robot designed to seek light, as well as build fire fighter robots that must make their way through a maze simulating a house and find a 'fire', (a candle) and distinguish it.
 

 
Advanced Robotics and Computing 
PBLua and Vpython
Computing Fundamentals
Grades 3-5
See detailed schedule and fees here
Beginner Robotics and Computing
Myro and Python
Computing Fundamentals for CS2
Class Code: BRC2
Grades 6-8
Saturday 1:30-3:00pm
See detailed schedule and fees here

Myro is a new framework for programming robots. It is written in the language Python and designed for use in Introductory Computing courses. It is developed by the Institute for Personal Robots in Education at Ga. Tech.  Myro, short for My Robot, is software that enables students to easily program their own personal robot. Students also learn computing fundamentals creating 3-D worlds using ALICE.
 
The personal robot for education comes with three parts:
  1. The Scribbler Robot designed by Parallax
  2. A special plug in "dongle" that additionally provides color vision, IR range sensing, internal voltage sensing, and an extra bright LED that can be controlled from software.
  3. An AZIO Bluetooth adapter.
 



Intermediate Robotics and Computing
Mechatronic Interfacing 101
 PBASIC
Class Code: IRC2
Grades 6-8
Wednesday 4:30-5:30 or 6pm-7pm
 See detailed schedule and fees here
 
This course answers the question “What’s a microcontroller?” by showing students how they can design their own customized, intelligent inventions with the Parallax BASIC Stamp microcontroller module. The activities in this course incorporate a variety of fun and interesting experiments designed to appeal to the student’s imagination by using motion, light, sound, and tactile feedback to introduce new concepts. The activities introduce students to a variety of basic principles in the fields of computer programming, electricity and electronics, mathematics and physics and artificial intelligence. 

This course also includes the BotBrain Educational Robot System where students build follower robots, maze solving robots and best of all create a planetary exploration Roverbot where student teams has just been given the task of exploring the surface of one of the moons of Jupiter.  Students robots will be controlled remotely from their mother ship as they type program commands into their PC stations and send the commands to the Roverbot via bluetooth.  Students can observe the surface of the lunar surface from a built in camera on their Roverbot and collect evidence of water and/or life.
 


  
 
Aerospace/ Aviation
New classes begin Saturday May 1, 2010

Young Flyers
Grades 3-5
Saturday Classes: 1:30-3pm 
 
Jr. Aviators
Grades 6-8
Saturday Classes: 3pm-4:30pm
See detailed schedule and fees here
 
Students are exposed to the fundamentals of Aerospace and flight as they experience flight simulations using real flight simulators. Instructed by certified pilots, students use real world aviation charts, learn about different flight charts- SimCharts, sectional, visual navigation charts (VNC), and more. Students learn how to read and create Flight Planners, learn Aerodynamics and Maneuvers, Simulate Flight with over 20 flight crafts and Control and operate a virtual Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's) and more.

At the end of each flight course, students have the option of taking a one on one flight with a certified pilot, where the pilot will actually give the student the opportunity to take the controls during flight. (This is optional)
 
 
AVA Package A-Students Receive:
Flight Suit
Flight Log
Flight Knee board
Folding Plotter
Certification of Completion (per level)
Custom Patch
Flight Wings
 
AVA Package B- Students Receive:
Flight Suit
Certification of Completion
Flight Wings
 


Forensic Science Saturdays
 
Classes start Saturday May 1, 2010
 


Forensic Science
Jr. Crime Scene Investigators
Class Code: CSI1
Grades 3-5
1:30-3:00
See detailed schedule and fees here

Students delve into the world of forensic science and discover the techniques and technology used to solve crimes.  Using hands-on activities, students will put their newly learned detective skills to work as they mock kid-friendly crimes
 
Forensic Science
Forensic Entomology 101 
Class Code: CSI2
Grades 6-8
3:30-5:00
See detailed schedule and fees here

Students become Forensic Entomologist as they use their knowledge of insects, their life cycles and behaviors to give them clues to solve crimes.
 
 
Did you know...
A maggot can be used to test the presence of drugs or poison in a corpse.


CSI Package-
Students Receive:
Lab Coat
DNA Extraction Kit
Fingerprinting Kit




R/C Airplane Flight Training
Grades 6-8
Classes Start Summer 2010 
meet the instructors 
See detailed schedule and fees here
 
Our R/C flight training is focused on development of solid skills, and flight proficiency standards that compare to “Full Scale” training.  Students master tail-in hovering skills, mild lateral movement control, nose-in skills and more...
 
RCA Package- Students Receive: Students have option of take home P51 Mustang R/C Plane in Green, Blue or Classic Grey:
 
                2 CH- P51 Mustang
 
           
 
 

 
Rocketry
 Coming Summer 2010

Mini Movie Makers
Grades 3-5
Coming Summer 2010
 
     
 
 
 


 


 

 PeeWee Astronauts

Grades K-2

Classes Start Summer 2010 

Class Code: PWA1

Grades K-2

In this fun and interactive class, K-2 students will explore astronomy and the solar system! Using hands-on activities and experiments, your children will be fascinated from beginning to end as they explore NASA’s latest missions to include the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission and more…Using NASA engineering models and scientific data students will take a virtual field trip to the moon. Like astronauts, students will come face-to-face with the challenges and excitement of launching from Earth’s surface and journeying through space to land on the moon. The PeeWee Astronaut course includes current and active, hands-on activities, NASA webinars, readings, take home worksheets, charts, interactive websites, full-color high resolution graphic activities, and more to provide a multisensory approach to learning about space and becoming an astronaut.


PeeWee Astronaut Class to include:

-Astronaut Training Suit
-Jr. Astronaut Patch
-Certificate of Completion

 


 
 
  Forensic Science Saturdays

Classes Start Saturday May 1, 2010

Jr. Crime Scene Investigators
 
Class Code: CSI1
5 Saturdays 1:30-3pm/ $140
Grades 3-5
Students dive into the world of forensic science and discover the techniques and technology used to solve crimes.  Using hands-on activities, students will put their newly learned detective skills to work as they solve mock kid-friendly crimes.
 
 
 
Forensic Entomology 101 
Class Code: CSI2
5 Saturdays 3:30-5pm/ $150
Grades 6-8

Students become Forensic Entomologist as they use their knowledge of insects, their life cycles and behaviors to give them clues to solve crimes.

Did you know...

A maggot can be used to test the presence of drugs or poison in a corpse.


CSI Package-
Students Receive:

Lab Coat

DNA Extraction Kit

Fingerprinting Kit



 
  PeeWee Paleontologists
Grades K-2
Classes Start Saturday May 1, 2010  
Class Code: PWPT1
Grades K-2
$140/ 5 Weeks
Saturdays 12pm-1:30 in the PeeWee Engineers Lab
 
This hands-on prehistoric adventure uses visual materials, fossil replicas, fossils and scale models, and dino-digs to show the characteristics distinguishing dinosaurs, their world and what we know about them. K-2 students will explore dinosaur paleontology and take virtual field trips across prehistoric lands long forgotten in search of ancient fossils. Like Museum paleontologists, students make their way into their very own paleontology laboratory as they attempt to reconstruct the lives of dinosaurs based on skeletal and environmental clues. Students will learn what information can be learned from fossil evidence, and also the limitations of what fossils can tell us about these extinct animals. Utilizing Webosaurs and dino-digs, and other standards based activities; students will demonstrate their understanding of time periods, fossilization and more...
 

PeeWee Paleontologist Class to include:
 
-Safari/ Paleontologist Vest
-Take home Fossil
-Certificate of Completion
-Dinosaur Excavation Kit