On Friday, April 12, local elected officials and community leaders were invited for a special grand opening ceremony and tour of the newest Amazon Robotics fulfillment center in Lake Nona. This event was the first time the community saw the inside of the new facility. Since opening in August 2018, the over 850,000-square-foot fulfillment center in Orlando has hired more … [Read more...]
School Update: Laureate Park Elementary School
In September, Laureate Park Elementary Longhorns opened their pantries to help fill the Lake Nona High School Safe Pantry. Laureate Park sponsored a Navy & Silver Spirit Day and invited all students and staff to bring items that could be used by the LNHS Safe Pantry. Our school filled a pallet of items, which were brought to LNHS. In early October, Laureate Park … [Read more...]
School Update: Eagle Creek Elementary School
Hello, Panther Community! STEM Activities In September, we had our first school-wide STEM Challenge of the year. We were so excited to see so many of our students create Barbie Bungee Jumping Apparatuses! Congratulations to our top 3 ECE STEM winners: Alynda Napoleon, Sylvester Ruiz and Gabrel Pardo. After we tested our kindergarten through … [Read more...]
Minecraft Summer Camp
Minecraft isn't just a game. It’s a perfect platform for aspiring game designers to learn problem-solving, practice critical thinking, test logic skills, and implement level design strategies. In this camp, students will take control of their world with command blocks and Redstone machines. They will fine-tune their understanding of wiring and logic gates while working … [Read more...]
Game Design Summer Camp
Imagine if students could transform their passion for playing video games into a passion for building them. In Game Design camp, students will explore the fundamentals of designing and developing multidimensional video games and will develop an understanding of what it takes to build a game from the ground up. Using the GameMaker Studio 2 platform, students will use visual … [Read more...]