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Time To Geek Out at Cyber Garage! Fall Registration Now Open!
Forget fashion week – “geek chic” is all the rage this fall!
Just ask our Girl’s App Team, who WON the Google App competition this past spring – talk about heading back to school with serious bragging rights.
STEAM classes are the must-have for every kid this season. Immerse your child in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math) this fall and set them up for success in school and beyond.
Get A Fierce-Class Education!
Sure you can get off-the-rack STEAM classes at school – but don’t your kids deserve the best, to keep them on the cutting edge in their education?
Even the most highly acclaimed schools cannot keep up with the amount of new information to be taught — they might emphasize or celebrate STEM or STEAM subjects, but no school is doing a deep dive into the amazing new technologies, tools and creative processes like we do at Cyber Garage.
Take a Closer Look
Cyber Garage is the ONLY Makerspace, Tech and Robotics Lab in Marin offering the most advanced technology combined with hands-on project-based STEAM education for kids K-12.
Because STEAM education is all we do, at Cyber Garage we have the ability to create an augmentation-based curriculum. We introduce STEAM subjects in fun new ways, like building imagining Derby cars, rockets and robots. Then we dive deep using a design-build method that inspires kids to think way outside the box, to get out of their comfort zones in a space where they can “fail safely” and learn skills in real world experiences.
Check out our fall line-up. All of our programs engage kids through project based learning to give them the confidence and critical thinking skills to take on any creative or academic challenge.
- Robotics
- Coding and Game Design
- CNC Woodworking Machines
- Animation, 3D Modeling
- 1:1 Laptops & PC’s
- iPads & Macs
- Laser Cutting
- Filmmaking
- Sewing, Wearable Tech
- Digital Arts
- Arduinos, Raspberry Pi
- And More!
Sign Up for Fall Classes NOW!
By providing hands-on opportunities to design, experiment, build and invent things from a young age, Cyber Garage helps kids realize that subjects that once seemed “too hard or boring” are now accessible…and FUN!
Not every kid needs to grow up to become a scientist, engineer or designer, but in this ever-changing world, everyone needs to grow up to think like one.
Learn More and Register at https://www.thecybergarage.com/fall-2017-classes/
Email us at mailto:info@thecybergarage.com or call us at 415/785-7660 for more information.
Pi Day and STEAM
Happy Pi Day from Cyber Garage
Today is Pi Day, and there are lots of reasons to celebrate!
Pi (the Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is 3.14159….and goes on and on to infinity. Since Pi is found in so many different equations in math, physics and other sciences, it is considered one of the most important mathematical constants. Plus, Pi’s infinite nature makes it a fun challenge for kids to memorize, and to calculate to more and more digits.
Pi Day was started right here in the Bay Area at the Exploratorium in 1988 and provides an excellent opportunity to promote the importance of math to our children. Math is one of the key pillars of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math), which is becoming increasingly important for our children’s future success. Today, schools around the world will be celebrating Pi Day by playing math games and in many cases, eating pie!
Cyber Garage, the new Makerspace and Tech Lab in San Anselmo, is celebrating Pi Day too. We feel that Pi – as a never-ending number – is the perfect symbol for learning. And we believe that learning (and FUN) should never end!
At Cyber Garage, we use the STEAM approach to help kids develop their full creative potential through technology and project-based learning. It makes learning more exciting and fun — and gives kids the opportunity to think creatively and apply knowledge that is applicable in the real world, just like a scientist or engineer working in the field.
Not every kid needs to grow up to become a scientist, engineer or designer, but in this ever-changing world, everyone needs to grow up to think like one. By providing hands-on opportunities to design, experiment, build and invent things from a young age, we help kids realize that subjects that once seemed “too hard” are now accessible…and FUN!
Cyber Garage offers classes, camps and workshops that spark the imagination and help kids develop creative confidence, critical thinking, perseverance, collaboration, and communication skills, which sets them up for success in school, and beyond.
Get your kids on the STEAM fast track at Cyber Garage! We offer classes to kids in K-8 in Design & Build Engineering, Coding, Game Design, Digital Arts and Robotics.
STEM + Art = STEAM
Why Add Art?
The STEM to STEAM is an initiative originally led by Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) to add Art and Design to the national agenda of STEM education and research in America. The goal is to foster the true innovation that comes with combining the mind of a scientist or technologist with that of an artist or designer.
http://www.risd.edu/about/stem_to_steam/
The objectives of the STEAM movement are to:
- Transform research policy to place Art + Design at the center of STEM
- Encourage integration of Art + Design in K–20 education
- Influence employers to hire artists and designers to drive innovation
STEAM advocates say that to be successful in technical fields, individuals must also be creative and use critical thinking skills which are best developed through exposure to the Arts. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/06/steam_vs_stem_why_we_need_to_put_the_arts_into_stem_education.html
According to former Education Secretary Duncan, “The arts provide us with new ways of thinking, new ways to draw connections…and they help maintain our competitive edge by engendering innovation and creativity.” And National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Landesman has echoed this sentiment, saying, “The arts can no longer be treated as a frill, … arts education is essential to stimulating the creativity and innovation that will prove critical to young Americans competing in a global economy.”
“The jobs in the greatest demand in the future don’t yet exist and will require workers to use technologies that have not yet been invented to solve problems that we don’t yet even know are problems.” Clinton’s former Secretary of Education, Richard Riley
The Benefits of STEAM
Hands-on STEAM projects work to both spark the imagination and to help students develop skills such as problem solving, collaborating, idea generation, design thinking, and tech literacy. These skills set students up for success in STEM, and beyond.
Anne Jolly argues in Education Week that STEAM uses the Arts as an “on-ramp to STEM for underrepresented students.”
The STEAM approach makes STEM more accessible and enjoyable to kids that might otherwise “pass” on subjects that don’t capture their interest or have turned them off in some way (e.g., missing a difficult concept and losing interest in the class, having a boring (or anxious) math teacher, or even not seeing people like them represented in those fields, like female engineers.)
STEAM also helps to close the diversity gap that exists in the STEM fields.
In an increasingly interdisciplinary and digital world, using design methods to approach STEM subjects can make them exciting, relevant and fun to all students, while creating STEM students who think creatively and remain engaged in their learning.
STEM to STEAM. Create. Innovate. Succeed.
What is STEM, and why is it important?
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (commonly abbreviated as “STEM”) are the four classic academic disciplines essential to innovation and to our country’s economic success.
The United States has fallen far behind other global leaders in the STEM fields. Fewer students are pursuing STEM fields and there are not enough teachers skilled to teach those subjects.
President Obama set a priority of increasing the number of students and teachers who are proficient in these vital fields. “Science is more than a school subject, or the periodic table, or the properties of waves. It is an approach to the world, a critical way to understand and explore and engage with the world, and then have the capacity to change that world.”
“The quality of math and science teachers is the most important single factor influencing whether students will succeed or fail in science, technology, engineering and math,” President Obama said. “Passionate educators with issue expertise can make all the difference, enabling hands-on learning that truly engages students—including girls and underrepresented minorities—and preparing them to tackle the grand challenges of the 21st century such as increasing energy independence, improving people’s health, protecting the environment, and strengthening national security.”
Advocates of STEM consider these steps to be fundamental to America’s future success:
- STEM education must be elevated as a national priority.
- Our nation’s future economic prosperity is closely linked with student success in the STEM fields.
- The U.S. must expand the capacity and diversity of the STEM workforce pipeline.
- Policymakers at every level must be informed about policy issues related to STEM education.
- Effective policies to promote STEM education should be bipartisan and evidence-based.
http://www.stemedcoalition.org