From Robotics and Coding to Sculpting and Costume Making, we offer a wide variety of customizable student programs designed to meet your needs, support your goals, and align with the learning objectives you have set.
Animatronics is a unique industry that seamlessly integrates computer programming, engineering, advanced manufacturing and technologies, as well as the visual and performing arts. Our educational programs emphasize career awareness and exploration in fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics, hands-on technical skill development, and authentic project based learning designed to inspire creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving for our next generation of innovators.
Afterschool and evening classes are available for students to explore a variety of concepts and themes. Enmphasis is on expanding the learning that takes place during the school day through enriching and engaging activities. Communication, collaboration and problem-solving are promoted by opportunities that allow students to explore careers in the creative industries, dive deeply into the creative process, and work together learning what it means to be part of a team.
Day Camps provide students with experiences that promote a foundational understanding of animatronics in a supportive and nurturing environment. Students practice effective communication, collaboration, teamwork and design thinking as they stretch beyond the limits of their comfort zones to imagine and create worlds of moving art!
Animatronics Academy is a multi-day immersive, customizable experience designed to emulate the real world of work, provide opportunities for hands-on technical skill development, and authentic practice in 21st Century Skills application. Through robotics, automation, engineering, and the visual and performing arts, students explore a variety of careers in the creative industries and advanced manufacturing. Working in teams, students create an engaging animatronic show utilizing a Garner Holt Education through Imagination Advanced Animatronic figure, SPARK-E. Focusing on elements such as engineering, fabrication, programming, coding, lighting and sound, digital media, research, script writing, voice acting, painting, sculpting, figure finishing, costuming, set design and prop creation, the Academy culminates with an animatronic showcase, which allows students to demonstrate their learning and showcase their creativity to their friends and families. Animatronics Academy concepts are engaging and challenging while providing creative flexibility to students from all walks of life. On-site and off-site options available.
Contact us to schedule a virtual workshop for your students!
Contact us to schedule a virtual workshop for your students!
Contact us to schedule a virtual workshop for your students!
In leveraging this world of technical wizardry and storytelling magic, our Animatronic Fundamentals Kits provide students with hands-on, engineering, design and art-based experiences. We provide the kits, curriculum and technical support so these lessons become exercises in experiential, hands-on learning.
- STEAM Learning
Our kits capitalize on animatronics’ seamless integration of each element in the STEAM learning model. Help your students understand the interdependent potential of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math through hands-on experiences that promote design thinking, creativity and imagination!
- Career Exploration
Each Animatronic Fundamentals Kit emulates an aspect of animatronic production allowing students to experience and explore the vast array of career fields required to create the illusion of life! Each of our kits promote the design thinking, prototyping and iteration, which employers agree is critical for the success of the 21st century workforce.
- Economical Experiences
Work within your budget while still providing students with inspiring, hands-on experiences that tap into their sense of wonder and amazement! At around $5.50 each, our kits are priced for classroom use so that students may discover interests, talents and passions, and to do it through a lens of career exploration and personal discovery.
- Convenience
Our kits are stocked with pre-sorted and pre-measured materials, packed individually for each student and boxed by classroom. Our kits are differentiated by age group to ensure that every student has an engaging and challenging experience. We have kits that teach the fundamentals of hydraulics, pneumatics, electrical circuits, fabrication, costuming, figure finishing, special effects, life casting and more.
