Join the IfSpace Invaders, our premier middle and high school robotics competition team! FTC is like a sports team for robots – each year, the FIRST organization dreams up a new challenge for our bot. We work as a team to strategize how to score the most points, design our mechanisms, assemble and tune the robot, CAD new parts and pieces, and program its operation. You don’t have to be an experienced roboticist to join FTC, however! We need team managers, graphic designers, team spirit leaders, historians, and all around hard workers to be successful as a group!

 

FIRST Tech Challenge

Age Range

Age 13, Age 14, Age 15+

Duration

24 weeks

Materials Fee

$50
Start Date Stop Date Day(s) of Week Class Time
August 25, 2016 February 23, 2017 Thursday 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

STEAM Lab is an opportunity for our Elementary aged student to explore STEAM through projects, experiments, and tinkering. Both in small groups and individually, students will work on designing and building, programming and predicting, hypothesizing and observing, and making connections between what happens in class and how things work in the world. This class is hands on, with different STEAM invitations presented each week.

STEAM Lab

Age Range

Age 5, Age 6, Age 7

Duration

16 weeks
Start Date Stop Date Day(s) of Week Class Time
January 2, 2017 May 2, 2017 Monday 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
January 3, 2017 May 2, 2017 Tuesday 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

We’re delighted to found the first Homeschool chapter of the Technology Student Association in Florida! As a group, students will explore different technologies as they choose the field in which they would like to compete. Learn more about the TSA and potential projects at their website here!

Technology Student Association

Duration

16 weeks

Materials Fee

$50

Curriculum

Material fee is notional and will be determined based on the selected project.

Start Date Stop Date Day(s) of Week Class Time
No Classes Are Currently Scheduled

IfSpace competitive LEGO Robotics teams. 4 teams available 2016/17.

FIRST Lego League

Age Range

Age 10, Age 11, Age 8, Age 9

Duration

16 weeks

Materials Fee

$40
Start Date Stop Date Day(s) of Week Class Time
January 3, 2017 May 2, 2017 Tuesday 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Brickbusters
January 3, 2017 May 2, 2017 Tuesday 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Afterschoolers
January 6, 2017 May 5, 2017 Friday 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Architects
January 6, 2017 May 5, 2017 Friday 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Engineers

Our High School core program seeks to prepare students for rigorous study in college through the same hands-on, discussion-based explorations used throughout the IfSpace curriculum. High School students meet twice per week for 2 hours each, and will study European literature including Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens, SAT writing and vocabulary, and American History. Our science focus this year is on Biology, and students will be offered differentiated instruction in mathematics, with a choice between supported home study or group instruction in Algebra II with trig.

Curriculum for High School includes The American Pageant, Math Without Borders Algebra II or Saxon 7/8 for home instruction support, and Campbell’s Biology. Students who keep up with assignments and approach IfSpace classes with academic rigor should expect to be prepared for the US History and Biology CLEP exams. A complete list of curricula, history and science spines, and living books, study guides and supplies will be supplied to families upon registration.

High School Core

Class Size

5–12

Age Range

Age 13, Age 14, Age 15+

Duration

32 weeks

Class Schedule

Thursday 12:30 – 2:20 Friday 10:00 – 12:00

Materials Fee

$40

Curriculum

Geometry: A Guided Inquiry
Teaching the Classics
Additional Curriculum TBA

Start Date Stop Date Day(s) of Week Class Time
No Classes Are Currently Scheduled