TERM 1 - LEARNING HUBS
FOR FAMILIES SEEKING INSPIRING, DYNAMIC & EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
WHO FOR: Families with 9-17 year olds
TERM 1 DATES: Begins Feb 7 - Ends Apr 8
TIMES: Session times vary - see descriptions
VENUE: Frankston South Studio Hub
REGISTER:
Email Michelleheriot@gmail.com directly to register.
FEES: See Term 1 significant discounts below
TERM 1 - HOW TO REGISTER & NEW DISCOUNTED FEES
REGISTRATION
Email michelleheriot@gmail.com to enquire about available spaces and request a registration form and payment details.
Also include the name/names of your child/children, and the program/s you're requesting registration for.
If registering after the program has begun, and if places are available, the fee will be adjusted.
DISCOUNTED TERM 1 FEES
Each program has been discounted for Term 1 (from $30 to $25 pp/pwk) with a further two discount types (for additional siblings and multiple programs).
I’m offering these to provide opportunities for children and families to be involved in our programs, especially to alleviate any financial pressure resulting for the past 2 years, and to get our programs back up and running.
Additional sibling discount (10%):
First child = $25.00 per wk
Additional sibling = $22.50 per wk
Multiple program discount (10%):
First program = $25 per wk
Additional programs = $22.50 per wk
Note:
Only 1 discount per person per program applies.
The full-term fee for each program must be paid in full before midnight on Saturday 5 February.
TERM FEES PER PROGRAM
• STEAM = Full fee $200, Additional Sibling or Multiple Program Disc fee $180 (8 sessions)
• Animation = Full fee $225, Additional Sibling or Multiple Program Disc fee $202.50 (9 sessions)
• Artovation = Full fee $225, Additional Sibling or Multiple Program Disc fee $202.50 (9 sessions)
• Designovation = Full fee $225, Additional Sibling or Multiple Program Disc fee $202.50 (9 sessions)
When paying, please inc this reference: T1 - # of children - your name.
Then email confirmation of payment, including receipt.
Once registered and payment is confirmed, I’ll send you the details required in preparation for your child’s attendance next week.
If you haven’t already joined our E-Gen Community group, here is the link to request to join. This group provides regular updates about what’s happening in E-Gen. Remember to complete all 3 questions.
http://www.facebook.com/groups/488533492354267/about
Parent involvement in our programs is encouraged. For programs that run across a full day, parental attendance is required, especially during the period in between change over of programs.
STEAM SERIES: ARTFUL STEAM
MONDAY EXPERIENCES
WHO FOR: 9-17 years
TIMES: 1PM - 3PM
FEE: $30 pp/pwk
VENUE: Frankston South Studio Hub
DESCRIPTION:
STEAM at E-Gen, offers dynamic experiential learning, inspiring the conceptual aspects of STEAM theories, principles, and phenomena, that will expand new ways of seeing, thinking, and doing.
We encourage each person to explore and discover with hands, hearts and minds – to be curious, test, question, create, reflect, record, and wonder, through safe experimentation, and curious and considerate conversation.
This term, our passionate STEAM facilitators will guide kids and teens on a deep dive into experimenting processes to discover symmetry, tessellations, and tangrams, manipulate shapes to construct supports, investigate the properties of circles and spheres, create motion, centrifugal force and tension, analyse and witness the behaviour of colour chemistry and its relevance in life.
Tangible outcomes will be generated throughout the term, finishing with a final full STEAM immersion to encapsulate the terms explorations and discoveries.
As best they can, the facilitators will adapt to the needs of each participant at any point in time, changing between teaching, coaching, and mentoring styles, depending on what is required and what works to the benefit of the participant at that time.
REGISTER
DATES: Feb 7 - Apr 4
(not inc Mar 14)
(10% sibling discount)
REGISTER:
Email Michelleheriot@gmail.com directly to register.
E-GEN PRO-PRENEURS
TUESDAY EXPERIENCES
WHO FOR: 12 - 17 YEARS
DATES: Launching in Term 2 or 3
TIMES: To be advised
FEE: To be advised
VENUE:
Frankston South Studio Hub
DESCRIPTION:
This program will be introduced in Term 2 or 3 and will offer tweens and teens who are seeking coaching to support the skillsets and knowhow required to develop ideas and establish a business and/or an initiative relating to their desire.
For emerging young entrepreneurs, business builders/owners, innovators, inventors, and initiators of change.
More information about this program will be published towards the end of Term 1 or 2.
REGISTER
REGISTER:
Email Michelleheriot@gmail.com directly to register.
THE WELLNESS GARDEN
TUESDAY EXPERIENCES
FAMILIES (parents & child/ren)
DATES: Launching in Term 2 or 3
TIMES: To be advised
FEE: To be advised
VENUE:
Frankston South Studio Hub
DESCRIPTION:
This program will be introduced in Term 2 or 3 and will offer families a wholistic and natural way of learning together.
A community garden learning hub for children and their parents. Immerse in a rich life learning experience – learn to grow and nurture seasonal vegetables, herbs, fruit trees, and care for chickens and pets.
Explore ways to make various products used in everyday life, including for healthy living and medicine, from what is grown.
Take home goodies from the garden and make the most of fresh free range & organic inspired eggs.
We will invite horticulture, garden, and related experts from the community, including Indigenous community members, to share their knowledge and experiences with us.
More information about this program will be published towards the end of Term 1 or 2.
REGISTER
WHO FOR:
Email Michelleheriot@gmail.com directly to register.
REGISTER:
ANIMATION
TUESDAY EXPERIENCES
WHO FOR: 9-17 YEARS
DATES: Feb 8 - Apr 5
TIMES: 1PM - 3PM
FEE: $30 pp/pwk
VENUE:
Frankston South Studio Hub
DESCRIPTION:
During this course, participants will learn how to create their own animations.
They will gain experience in planning and developing a complete animation from start to finish.
We will cover a range of animation techniques including traditional hand-drawn animation and stop motion. We will also learn how to edit and finalise our animation using digital apps. By the end of the course, students will take home multiple animations to share with family and friends and/or to be used in a folio.
This program is taught by a qualified animator with current professional experience. It has been designed as an introductory course and provides participants with the opportunity to explore the amazing world of animation.
This experience is a fun way to learn and apply creative skillsets in artistry, communication, storytelling, and planning.
No pre-requisites are required and participants who have advanced artistry and communication skills will gain as much as those who are beginners.
This program experience is required before advancing to more complex animation styles which we aim to introduce in future terms.
REGISTER
(10% sibling discount)
REGISTER:
Email Michelleheriot@gmail.com directly to register.
MAKERVATION SPACE
WEDNESDAY EXPERIENCES
WHO FOR:
DATES: Launching in Term 2 or 3
TIMES: To be advised
FEE: To be advised
VENUE:
Frankston South Studio Hub
DESCRIPTION:
The E-Gen studio becomes a purpose-designed space for children and their parents to explore the world of innovation, invention, and creation.
Pods with age-appropriate materials, equipment, and tools are positioned for exploration, discovery, and construction of two and three-dimensional creations, including moving contraptions, stationary forms, interactive devices, and anything the mind, heart, and hands will generate. We encourage freedom of inquiry at one’s own pace and within one’s unique process of exploration and discovery. For those seeking a set challenge, provocations will be offered.
Multiple materials are used to develop participant’s skills in the planning, design, and execution of an idea towards a final outcome.
We value the repurposing of recyclable materials and therefore, encourage the use of these materials in the making of innovative ideas. Other materials will be provided at different times for building, including wood, metals, glass, as well as circuitry equipment, art and craft materials, Lego, and whatever else is planned and unplanned for the session.
Additional materials and/or tools required, that are not included in the program fee, may be independently sourced.
The Makervation Space…
• Encourages problem-solving skills through creative tasks
• Facilitates ideas, innovation, and critical and design thinking
• Offers collaborative, authentic real-world learning experiences
• Helps participants focus with a hands-on approach
• Connects concepts explored with the real-world applications
• Builds perseverance – ‘failure is part of the process, not an end’
• Inspires further investigation.
Turning ideas into real, tangible objects, prototypes, and models, gives an insight into the experiences of being an engineer, urban planner, medical scientist, environmental scientist, artist, architect, film producer, animation artist, and an extended list of society’s innovator roles.
Working and learning together, with multiple ages, is also part of what makes the Innovation Space, dynamic and exciting.
REGISTER
FAMILIES (parents & child/ren)
REGISTER:
Email Michelleheriot@gmail.com directly to register.
WELLBEING WISDOM
WEDNESDAY EXPERIENCES
WHO FOR: To be advised
DATES: Launching in Term 2 or 3
TIMES: To be advised
FEE: To be advised
VENUE:
Frankston South Studio Hub
DESCRIPTION:
This program will be introduced in Term 2 or 3.
More information about this program will be published towards the end of Term 1 or 2.
REGISTER
REGISTER:
Email Michelleheriot@gmail.com directly to register.
WISDOM OF NUMBERS
THURSDAY EXPERIENCES
WHO FOR: 9 - 17 YEARS
DATES: Feb 10 - Apr 7
TIMES: 9AM - 10AM
FEE: $20 pp/pwk
VENUE:
Frankston South Studio Hub
DESCRIPTION:
Numbers are clearly visible as well as quietly hidden in life’s complex matrix. They exist to form the foundations of everything we do, see, and interact with. Numbers are deeply embedded and linked into our lives.
When we think of maths in today’s paradigm, many consider equations – a string and group of numbers and symbols that calculate to end in an answer or solution. There is a greater wisdom within the world of numbers that many are unaware of.
This term, we will explore and discover the wisdom of numbers – their conceptual and aesthetic mathematical characteristics – and how and where they are linked into and have relevance in life. We will take the numbers 1 through to 10 from one dimension to two, then to three dimensional representations, using tactile methods and materials to generate tangible creations of beauty.
As best they can, the facilitators will adapt to the needs of each participant at any point in time, changing between teaching, coaching, and mentoring styles, depending on what is required and what works to the benefit of the participant at that time.
REGISTER
(10% sibling discount)
REGISTER:
Email Michelleheriot@gmail.com directly to register.
EXPLORERS
THURSDAY EXPERIENCES
WHO FOR:
DATES: Feb 10 - Apr 7
TIMES: 12PM - 3PM
FEE:
VENUE:
DESCRIPTION:
Research shows that regularly doing activities in nature benefits our health in many ways. Being outdoors, moving, being active and breathing in natures air, cleanses our body, mind, and spirit/energy. The benefits are essential to a healthy existence and each person’s SPACES WholeBeing Intelligence™ which combines the elements of social, physical, academic, creative, emotional, and self-actualisation intelligences. Unpacked, the benefits are significant and specific to the overall wellbeing of each person.
E-Gen Explorers promotes an inclusive and fun community culture in various natural environments for families with teens, tweens, and their siblings to socialise and explore the outdoors through diverse adventure experiences. The experiences range from casually relaxed through to safely adventurous. Some weeks we may explore the outdoors in kayaks, on surfboards, up and down rocks and cliff face, and other weeks we may set up a comfortable picnic with rugs, chairs, and boardgames, in an environment where the kids invent their own adventures. There is choice for everyone.
This program of experiences combines both ‘fee paying’ and ‘non-fee’ activities, and families may opt into whichever experiences they wish to participate in. Rates for ‘fee-paying’ experiences will vary according to the experience.
Explorer experiences, including dates, times, and requirements, is published in the private E-Gen Community Facebook Group.
REGISTER
Families: tweens, teens, and siblings
(Times change for some activities)
No fee & fee activities (TBA on E-Gen Commmunity Group)
Various locations (TBA on E-Gen
Commmunity Group)
REGISTER:
Email Michelleheriot@gmail.com directly to register.
DYNAMIC LITERACY
FRIDAY EXPERIENCES
WHO FOR: 9 - 17 YEARS
DATES: Feb 11 - Apr 7
TIMES: 9AM - 10AM
VENUE:
Frankston South Studio Hub
DESCRIPTION:
The stories we hear, shape us, and affect how we tell our stories to others.
While writing and telling stories is a wonderful way to enrich our lives, it can be a very challenging enterprise. If you’ve ever experienced writer’s block, you know how deeply frustrating and intimidating a blank page can be.
This program is literally, dynamic!
It transforms young people’s negative beliefs about writing, unlocking their fears and frustrations. Dynamic Literacy awakens imagination, gives permission for uniqueness, and opens new possibilities for confident story telling.
Simple exercises build courage to develop plots, construct characters, and descriptive settings, to impart emotive essence in their stories. Writers are guided to use written, pictorial, and auditory-inspired language, in varied ways, without judgement. They are encouraged through creative literary processes, including flip boarding and storyboarding, visual media communication, construction of words and phrases using collage, collaborative swapping of ideas and approaches, investigating rhythm through poetry and song and the sounds of language using onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance, and playing with idioms and oxymorons to achieve dynamic outcomes.
Dynamic Literacy encourages, nurtures, inspires, and transforms negative beliefs about story telling into positive ones.
REGISTER
(10% sibling discount)
FEE: $20 pp/pwk
REGISTER:
Email Michelleheriot@gmail.com directly to register.
ARTOVATION SERIES
FRIDAY EXPERIENCES
WHO FOR: 9 - 17 YEARS
DATES: Feb 11 - Apr 8
TIMES: 11AM - 1PM
VENUE:
Frankston South Studio Hub
DESCRIPTION:
Mixed Media – painting, printmaking, collage
Art & innovation, a marrying of two intentions, inextricably linked, not one without the other.
Artovation inspires and nurtures, it encourages children to create and innovate, explore, and unleash their individual creative expression, embracing their diverseness, imagining, being curious, innovate, inventive, and creating what from come from their heart, intuition, and the mind.
Immerse in a space of fun, explore a diverse range of art practices, materials, and tools, discover the strength of art elements and principles, draw inspiration from traditional & modern artist’s approaches, to develop your unique style. Grow and expand your self-awareness, self-belief, and confidence through the creative process.
During Artovation, participants will explore a diverse range of art mediums, some of which include various types of painting and printmaking, drawing, collage, stencilling, mixed media art, sculpture, modelling, crafting approaches, cold glass art, fabrics, string, and wool, to identify a few.
As best they can, the facilitators will adapt to the needs of each participant at any point in time, changing between teaching, coaching, and mentoring styles, depending on what is required and what works to the benefit of the participant at that time.
REGISTER
FEE: $30 pp/pwk
(10% sibling discount)
REGISTER:
Email Michelleheriot@gmail.com directly to register.
DESIGNOVATION SERIES
FRIDAY EXPERIENCES
WHO FOR: 9 - 17 YEARS
DATES: Feb 11 - Apr 8
TIMES: 2PM - 4PM
VENUE:
Frankston South Studio Hub
DESCRIPTION:
Architecture focus
Designovation introduces participants to the world of design and construction, transforming unique ideas from 2-dimensions into 3-dimensional forms as a true innovator/inventor/designer does!
This experiential program unleashes curiosity and imagination, engages creativity and multiple thinking approaches during problem solving, expands the whole brain experience with skills in empathy and reasoning, and explores maths in a visually spatial and hands-on way.
There are a number of focusses in this series. Each focus explores a broad range of skillsets related to 3D design and modelling professions. Each focus covers the skillsets of visual design, drawing, design thinking and processing, planning, and organising, emotional intelligence related to client relationships, construction techniques for building prototypes/models, and other related skill.
Participants will experience the process of idea and innovative generation, exploring multiple thinking methods with visual design elements & principles. They will use a range of materials and related tools, throughout the series to design and construct, including paper, card, glass, metal, wood, modelling clays, plaster, and others specific to the type of design being explored.
Participants will draw on inspiration from local and global designers and innovators to aid in the development and expansion of your own ideas.
