AccelerateKID®

Madison Heights Center: Club Koding
2018-11-16 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | MI
Club Koding is designed for kids ages 10-14 who have a passion to code! Every month, members meet to work in groups or individually on new projects using Scratch and Javascript programming languages. Kids will have fun building real programs and apps that work on gadgets like phones and tablets.
Members are required to bring their own laptop to participate and always keep all work completed.
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Club Koding: JavaScript Parents Edition
2018-11-09 18:00 - 20:00 | MI
Club Koding: JavaScript Parents Edition
Club Koding is designed for kids ages 10-14 who have a passion for coding! Every month, members meet to work in groups or individually on new projects using M.I.T. Scratch, Javascript or Python programming languages. For the next club meetup parents can try coding in JavaScript and if they are lucky, even program a quick game. Computer science is for everybody, now parents have the chance to build real programs and apps that work on gadgets like phones and tablets with your child. How cool is that?
Members are required to bring their own laptop to participate.
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2018 Schoolcraft Film Challenge
2018-11-09 - 2018-11-11 | MI
2018 Schoolcraft Film Challenge
Last year our students were recipients of the “Best Use of Dialog” award at the Schoolcraft Film Challenge. This year your kids can help us achieve the best film award by participating as writers, producers, cinematographers, film editors and much more!
The film challenge is a 3-day, 48-hours to complete a film, animation or video to showcase in front of industry professionals for prizes. There is a $25 registration fee and we provide an instructor, meals, and a T-shirt. All participant will need to be present for the entire event including the presentation on the final day.
Check out the daily agenda:

Fri, Nov 9 at 7pm-9pm Film Challenge Orientation at Schoolcraft Schoolcraft VisTaTech Center
Sat, Nov 10 at 9am-9pm Storyboard, Filming, Editing at AccelerateKID Madison Heights
Sun, Nov 11 at 10am-5pm Finish Film Editing & Submit Film at AccelerateKID Wixom
Sun, Nov 11 at 7pm-10pm Screening & Award Ceremony at Schoolcraft VisTaTech Center

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See why last year The Journey won “Best Use of Dialog” on the Schoolcraft Film Challenge

Gaming Meetup At Wixom & Madison Heights
2018-11-02 18:00 - 20:00 | MI
Gaming Meetup: Minecraft/Roblox Parents Edition
Parents and kids come join us and dive into some Minecraft and Roblox! The fun starts on Friday, November 2nd with our awesome gaming instructors who will share secret tips and tricks to advance you to the next level. Come share ideas and experience the fun! Pop on in and we’ll provide the free popcorn.
For the meetup, please make sure you bring the following:

Bring your own laptop (PC / Mac)
Have a power cord

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Wixom Center: Digital Girlz: Movie Night
2018-10-19 18:00 - 20:00 | MI
Wixom Center: Digital Girlz: Movie Night
Girls meet every 2nd and 3rd Friday of the month. Digital Girlz Club inspires all girls to practice, invent and design their own projects. It’s a great way to make new friends and meet inspiring women from the S.T.E.A.M. field. For this month we have an exciting feature-length movie – Hidden Figures (An inspiring story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA’s space program.)

Join us and bring a friend! FREE popcorn will be provided!
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Madison Heights: Digital Girlz: Movie Night
2018-10-12 18:00 - 20:00 | MI
Madison Heights: Digital Girlz: Movie Night
Girls meet every 2nd and 3rd Friday of the month. Digital Girlz Club inspires all girls to practice, invent and design their own projects. It’s a great way to make new friends and meet inspiring women from the S.T.E.A.M. field. For this month we have an exciting feature-length movie – Hidden Figures (An inspiring story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA’s space program.)

Join us and bring a friend! FREE popcorn will be provided!
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Wixom: Club Koding
2018-10-12 18:00 - 20:00, 2018-09-14 18:00 - 20:00, 2018-08-10 18:00 - 20:00, 2018-07-13 18:00 - 20:00 | MI

Madison Heights: Club Koding
2018-10-05 18:00 - 20:00, 2018-09-07 18:00 - 20:00 | MI

Wixom: Gaming Meetup
2018-10-05 18:00 - 20:00, 2018-08-03 18:00 - 20:00 | MI
Love to play video games? We do too! Join us every first Friday of the month to play popular games like Fortnite, Roblox, and Minecraft with other like-minded kids. Kids will learn the latest updates on their favorite games, play with or against each other, and compare ideas about game design while eating free popcorn! This is Gaming meetup at it’s finest! Members must bring their own laptop (PC/Mac) to participate.

​2018 Education Expo & Ed Talks
2018-09-30 12:00 - 15:30 | MI
Metro Parent hosts its 23rd annual Education Expo on Sunday, September 30, 2018, at the Cranbrook Institute of Science in Bloomfield Hills. The event takes place from noon until 3:30 p.m. Discover the best local schools and boarding schools, enrichment, tutoring and extracurricular programs, financial planners, children’s health and safety experts, children’s advocacy groups and much more!
New this year: EdTalks, a series of discussions on subjects from homework to the balance between extracurricular activities and academics. EdTalks will also feature a panel discussion about the state of education in Michigan. There also will be a Town Hall meeting facilitated by the Center for Michigan, a “think-and-do tank” that aims to educate, engage and inform Michigan residents about policy and issues statewide, including education.
Attendance is free and will include box lunches, courtesy of Nino Salvaggio, for the first 1000 pre-registered guests. Lunches will not be available to walk-ins or to those who do not reserve them in advance.
Pre-Registered families who attend also will be entered to win great prizes: a Cranbrook Science Membership, gift cards and more!

DHACK Challenge: Twitter Operated (IoT) Vending Machines for CSforALL Summit
2018-09-23 14:00 - 18:00 | MI
Join the movement to empower Detroit youth (ages 11+), and the community at large by starting with yourself.
DHACK is back and you’re invited!
For our first challenge, we are partnering with CSforALL, a national non-profit dedicated to making Computer Science accessible to all. The challenge will be to build Twitter Operated (IoT) Vending Machines for the CSforALL Summit being held at WSU October 8-11.
Join us on Sunday, September 9th for the challenge kick-off where you will learn all about the Twitter vending machine challenge, its requirements and prizes.
All 5 workshops for this challenge are on Sundays from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and will be held on the 3rd floor of the David Adamany Undergraduate Library (UGL) in the Community Room.
Challenge Schedule:

September 9: Team building (5-7 individuals per team); Preliminary design – design thinking; Material round up (Raspberry Pi’s, Arduinos, Plywood, Lexan, Hardware, Bread boards, Wires, Electronic accessories)
September 16: Coding begins; Design work; Building begins; Requests for minor parts fabrication made to machine shops and/or maker spaces
September 23: Coding continues; Design work continues; Building continues
September 30: Finish building; Testing begins
October 7: Finishing touches and prep for transport to WSU Community Arts Auditorium for the

CSForALL Summit!
Please RSVP if you want to join the challenge.
This challenge is open to all experience levels, especially youth.

Wixom: Digital Girlz
2018-09-21 18:00 - 20:00, 2018-08-17 18:00 - 20:00, 2018-07-20 18:00 - 20:00 | MI
Get a sneak peek into the life of an ‘artist-tech’ and STEAM career within the tech industry (web designer or developer, graphic designer, coding games, robotics design, book publisher, etc..). At the Digital Girlz Club, girls ages 9-14 will take a walk into a new tech career each month. This club offers mentorship from experts in the tech industry, mini tech lessons/projects, and peer collaboration. Kids always keep their completed work to continue development and/or add to their portfolio.
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AccelerateKID® 5th Birthday Bash & Open House, Madison Heights
2018-09-16 12:00 - 15:00 | AccelerateKID, Madison Heights Center, 32640 Concord Drive, Madison Heights, MI, 48071, United States
AccelerateKID® 5th Birthday Bash & Open House, Madison Heights
AccelerateKID® is celebrating its 5th birthday with our community this September and we want to invite you. We’ll have a couple of birthday bashes and open houses at each of our location for families and kids to enjoy a day of technology including coding, game design, robotics and 3D printing. There will be lots of food and games for the family to go along with a raffle giveaway every hour. It’s an opportunity for us to say “thank you” and for families to visit us if they haven’t already. Register in advance to get a free AccelerateKID keychain 3D print HERE when you attend.
DATE: Sunday, September 16th
TIME: 12 PM – 3 PM
LOCATION: AccelerateKID Madison Heights
ADDRESS: 32640 Concord Drive, Madison Heights, MI 48071
Register Here And Get A 3D Keychain!

AccelerateKID® 5th Birthday Bash & Open House, Wixom
2018-09-09 12:00 - 15:00 | AccelerateKID Center, 24404 Catherine Industrial Dr, Ste 316, Novi, MI, 48375, United States
AccelerateKID® 5th Birthday Bash & Open House, Wixom
AccelerateKID® is celebrating its 5th birthday with our community this September and we want to invite you. We’ll have a couple of birthday bashes and open houses at each of our location for families and kids to enjoy a day of technology including coding, game design, robotics and 3D printing. There will be lots of food and games for the family to go along with a raffle giveaway every hour. It’s an opportunity for us to say “thank you” and for families to visit us if they haven’t already. Register in advance to get a free AccelerateKID keychain 3D print HERE when you attend.
DATE: Sunday, September 9th
TIME: 12 PM – 3 PM
LOCATION: AccelerateKID Wixom
ADDRESS: 28265 Beck Road, Ste C-17, Wixom, MI 48393
Register Here And Get A 3D Keychain!

Wixom: Gaming Meetup
2018-09-07 18:00 - 20:00, 2018-07-06 18:00 - 20:00 | MI
Love Minecraft & Roblox? We do too! We are Michigan’s First Minecraft club. Join our monthly meetups for kids ages 7-14 years old and get the latest Minecraft & Roblox updates, play on each other’s Minecraft server, compare mods and meet other like-minded players in the area! This is a Gaming Networking at it’s finest. Members must bring their own laptop with a Minecraft PC/Mac account to participate.
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Madison Heights: Digital Girlz
2018-08-10 18:00 - 20:00, 2018-07-13 18:00 - 20:00 | MI

Madison Heights: Gaming Meetup
2018-08-03 18:00 - 20:00 | MI

4th Annual Hackathon Maker Faire Detroit
2018-07-28 09:00 - 2018-07-29 18:00 | MI
4th Annual Hackathon Maker Faire Detroit
Maker Faire® Detroit, at The Henry Ford, gathers 10,000 STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math.) curious visitor from around the United States. For the 4th year in a row inside the Faire, kids gather to participate at the Hackathon with AccelerateKID. On Saturday, July 28, we’ll have 50 Detroit kids participating in the Maker Faire® Detroit hackathon to learn about computer science and game development using Javascript programming language. It’s an all-day event for kids to explore coding and the innovative activities at the Faire.
Kids that learn computer science develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Many schools are integrating STEAM workshops to teach students how fun can be to program a robot or program an app that solves problems in their communities. During the hackathon, kids will develop an innovative app that will be presented to judges for prizes at the end of the day. They will work in teams and attend educational workshops in a fun and educational environment. The event is free for the kids. Its estimated that by 2020 coding jobs will go unfill and an average salary for computing occupation is $80,478.
If you are an organization working with inner city youth in Detroit that wants to participate in the hackathon and Maker Faire® Detroit, then fill this form here.

STEM EXPO/Youth Day
2018-07-21 08:00 - 15:00 | MI
STEM EXPO/Youth Day is an event to bring Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math together to Detroit Public Schools Community District students and parents/guardians. 21st Century Community Learning Center is hosting a STEM expo and field day for all Cooke families and students.

Madison Heights: Gaming Meetup
2018-07-06 18:00 - 20:00 | MI

Quicken Loans Detroit Demo Day
2018-06-22 18:30 | MI
From nearly 500 applicants, 15 entrepreneurs have been selected to pitch their company live on stage at Quicken Loans Detroit Demo Day! The companies pitching include new startups, existing small businesses, and nationally expanding ventures.
A panel of nationally-recognized judges will pick seven winners who will receive their share of $1 million. In addition, the live audience will vote on the “People’s Choice” awards using the Detroit Demo Day App.
A Happy Hour Event will kickoff at 5:00 pm outside of the Music Hall and will include local food trucks, drinks, plus the opportunity to meet the entrepreneurs.

The night will conclude with a Live Musical Performance from a Grammy-award winning Def Jam artist.
For more information, please visit Detroit Demo Day. ¡Save your space here!
