Activities

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We settled on four activities that offer rich opportunities for student projects: Lego Robots, Flash Animation, Web Creations, and Digital Video. You'll find support materials on this site for each activity. We suggest that new clubs pick one activity to start with. Established clubs often work with two or more activities at once as expertise builds up among the club members.

Ideally over the course of one semester a student will learn a new technology, create a project, attend an event or competition, and earn a Challenge Award in a chosen activity.

When starting a new club, get together with a few interested students and select the activity for the first semester. Members are then recruited based on this activity. It is more effective to say “come join our tech club and work with Lego robots” than “come join our tech club and we’ll talk about what to do this semester.” Once the club is running, the club as a whole can pick the activities for future semesters.