Engineering For Kids

Great summer camp for kids! My son is on his 3^rd day of the summer camp program at engineering for kids. And he does not want to leave when I pick him up and he is super eager to get there in the morning ! He has already made a few great things including a robot and is learning a lot and using his brain a lot. The staff /​teachers are friendly and welcoming and knowledgable. Defiantly would recommended to anyone and everyone

A experience to consider before you sign up.
The Engineering For Kids Video Game Design Class. Was the most disappointing class I have ever signed my children up for. I feel that the description of the course was very misleading. The description stated that each student was going to learn How to create their own video game. After the completion of the classes. I feel that it would have been better described as the children were customizing a existing video game program. Not at all the same as learning to create a video game. My greatest disappointment is that my children and myself believe that they were going to be Learning how to create a video game! The description also stated that each child would receive a disk containing all students created video games. Meaning that you would have at least eight different video games this might have made the coast more worth it. Instead we would have eight differently decorated versions of the same video games, if the disc worked? Which it does not! I paid for two children to take this class and only one child received a non working disc. I feel my money would have been much better spent buying the customize your own video game program myself. I would have taken the time to learn the steps before teaching my children. Due to the inappropriate use of class time the video games were never even finished by any student that I am aware of. I find this to be a very unprofessional way to do business. In our experience the instructors of the class came unprepared and we’re not knowledgeable of the material they were indented to teaching to the students. The circumstances were not much improved over the length of the classes. While the teachers became equipped with the equipment. Even up until the very last class they were still not knowledgeable of the materials which they were intending to teach to their students. They were reading direct from the manual and trying to figure out what was the next step while student sat there waiting for them to figure it out. My children came home telling me that they were very disappointed with the class after each and every class. My children and I were very excited about taking this course. I will have to think long and hard about attending any other classes offered by Engineering For Kids in the future. The misleading description the unprepared teachers and the unknowledgeable teachers were unacceptable at any price but especially at this price point.
Sincerely
A Sonoma Mountain Charter School Parent