Riding roller coasters is so much fun, but building your own is a different kind of thrill. Make a roller coaster in Minecraft using minecarts, powered rails, and redstone. Develop your engineering, sequential logic, and spatial reasoning skills as you make your coaster pass through underground caverns or soar high into the air. The only limit to your roller coaster is your imagination!

Your mission: establish a colony on a Minecraft planet. To get your colony up and running, you’ll need help from the ship’s automated systems. Activate them by solving exciting puzzles that involve pattern recognition, ratios, measurement, and more. Join the adventure and plant your flag on a brand-new planet to claim it as your own. Errata: The grades for this class are supposed to be 3-5 (as shown in the at-a-glance), not 2-3 (as originally listed in the catalog)

Minecraft is more than just a game—it’s a creative tool that allows players to design and experience feats of engineering, stunning structures, and epic works of art. We’ll visit fantasy worlds, travel to space, explore modern architecture, and more. Design and build your own architectural creations inspired by your exploration while learning the meaning of good digital citizenship and practicing teamwork.

Ever wanted to craft diamonds from dirt, smelt up some bedrock, or add your own custom blocks? Modifications—or “mods”—are one of the coolest things about the Minecraft community. In this class we'll get you started using Java coding to write your own mods using the Forge API.

Unlock your creativity and become a Minecraft mastermind by engineering your own interactive escape room. Discover the secrets of redstone, Minecraft’s powerful circuit system, to build traps, locks, and hidden mechanisms. Design devious challenges and clever contraptions that will keep players guessing at every turn. Along the way, you’ll test your creations, collaborate with teammates, and fine-tune your designs—just like a professional engineer.

Love running obstacle courses in real life or video games? Create your own in Minecraft! Learn to design jaw-dropping courses that will amaze your friends and push your skills to new heights. Discover how to build bouncing platforms, set up pressure plates, create daring 60-foot jumps, and more. Challenge your creativity and push Minecraft’s physics to the limit as you construct the ultimate obstacle course.

Design intricate 3D-printable objects using BlocksCAD, an online program developed by Einstein’s Workshop. This easy-to-learn software makes coding and 3D design as simple as dragging and dropping blocks of editable code. Develop an intuitive understanding of coordinate geometry while turning what you can imagine into reality. Pick one of your 3D creations to print and take home.

Make robots and electronic devices follow your instructions. Start with hands-on games to master the basics, then program a screen-free, educational coding robot to navigate a series of mazes. Once you’ve mastered those concepts, explore more complex programming in Scratch Jr. to create animated stories and games, turning coding logic into fun, interactive projects.

Design intricate 3D objects using BlocksCAD, a software program that combines 3D modeling with block-based coding. You’ll learn computer coding, graphing skills, and 3-dimensional design. By dragging and dropping blocks of editable code that create and modify 3D shapes, you’ll use problem-solving to build models that can then be exported to a 3D printer.

Blast off! Develop your own space mission including rocket design, launch, and orbit, using Kerbal Space Program (KSP). KSP is a space flight simulation game that provides an exciting and intuitive environment for learning about space exploration. You’ll learn about astrodynamics and physics as you explore realistic, modern-day space flight.

Stretch your creativity with digital art tools as you draw, paint, and experiment with color, shapes, and layers. Create imaginative digital images and learn how to build on your ideas, turning simple designs into bold, eye-catching artwork that shows off your creativity.