Remake Learning Days Across America (RLDAA) is a celebration of innovative experiences and opportunities for youth to develop their sense of creativity, perseverance and curiosity. The Chicago Learning Exchange (CLX), Local Lead Partners, and Event Hosts will turn Chicago into an open house learning laboratory online and in-person. In partnership with My Chi. My Future, we will feature fun and free events for youth of all ages at which families will experience making, new technology, art workshops, science experiments, student films, outdoor learning and more! Chicago STEM Pathways Cooperative coordinates and is the leader for the Austin neighborhood during the Remake Learning Days festival.
CodeCreate Crafty Coding + Trusting Technology with Code Create
Virtual Event
Dates: Thursday 7pm to 8:30pm CST
Age group: Parents and Educators
In this 90 minute professional development session, we'll review the intersections of storytelling and technology that Code Create has explored and developed over our organization's eight years with a very diverse range of collaborators. Many educators have seen the value in combining personal experiences with the computation empowering new expression, but through shared best practices we'll discover some of the best techniques for classrooms and learning environments of all types.
Listen to Me with Project Increase
Virtual Event
Dates: Friday 4pm to 5pm CST
Age group: Grade 6 and up
Project Increase presents the 2018 film "Listen To Me" which features youth from the city of Chicago and they share their perspectives of growing up in their community and how they feel it impacts their future. We will identify and discuss, subjects in society where youth may feel that they are not heard.
Theatre Event with Austin Town Hall
Dates: Friday 4pm to 6pm CST
Age group: All ages
Location: Austin Town Hall - 5610 W Lake St, Chicago, IL 60644
Participants learn and practice skills related to Theatre through instruction, theatre games, exercises and activities designed to teach while having fun. Topics include warm up techniques, voice, breathing, monologues and scene work, pantomime, vignette recreation, timing, movement, character development and much more.
Mini Outdoor Learning with the Field Museum!
Dates: Saturday 10am to 3pm CST
Age group: Grade 2 to 7
Location: Moore Park - 5085 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60644
Get outside and active with the Field Museum! Join us at Moore park for fun activities that help you look closer at nature, community, and dinosaurs. Compare your top running speed to some of the fastest (and slowest) animals, design and draw your own community crest, and discover the nature found all around us in the city of Chicago. #RLDCHI
The Science of Exercise & Yoga with Habilitative Systems
Dates: Saturday 11am to 1pm CST
Age group: All ages
Location: Habilitative Systems - 4133 W Madison St - Westside Triage Center
Join us for a day of bold fresh hip hop classes, energizing exercise, and a soothing yoga workshop.
CyberSleuths Curriculum with One In Tech
Virtual Event
Dates: Saturday 1pm to 2pm CST
Age group: Parents and Educators
Parents and educators you are invited! One In Tech is excited to offer this opportunity to explore and ask questions about our FREE online cybersecurity educational videos and activities. We will take you through the CyberSleuths Curriculum, which builds online navigation skills and exposes students to careers in cybersecurity. Included is an interactive 6-part video series created for-students, by-students. It is intended for students in grades 3-12 and... FUN!
Green Cities with Gateway to the Great Outdoors
Dates: Saturday 1pm to 3pm CST
Age group: Grade 4 to 8
Location: Bethel New Life - 4950 W. Thomas Street. Chicago, IL 60651
Join Gateway to the Great Outdoors and learn what makes a city "green". Let's dream up and build a sustainable city together!
The Rhythm of Wellness Experience
Dates: Saturday 1pm to 3pm CST
Age group: All ages
Location: Bethel New Life - 4950 W. Thomas Street. Chicago, IL 60651
Rhythm and movement provide incredible healing possibilities for our bodies and minds. Join us at our Austin campus as Bethel New Life and Mofindu West African Drum and Dance work together to get you moving through the power of ancestral beats and movements. As part of Chicago's Remake Learning Days this free open house is an opportunity to experience and to sign up for ongoing classes. All ages are welcome!
Inspirational Paper Mini Pennants
Dates: Saturday 1pm to 3pm CST
Age group: All ages
Location: Bethel New Life - 4950 W. Thomas Street. Chicago, IL 60651
Make your very own flag of encouragement to cheer you on and remind you to keep on keeping on! Perfect for decorating your desk, sticking into a potted plant, or tacking to your wall. Create a pennant flag using patterned paper, positive phrases, ribbon, and more. Facilitated by artist Margaux Mays.. All ages are welcome!
URLife - Story Neighborhood Game
Dates: Saturday 1pm to 3pm CST
Age group: All ages
Location: Bethel New Life - 4950 W. Thomas Street. Chicago, IL 60651
Join Lily Be in an interactive storytelling game where participants create a neighborhood based on the cards they pull from a story deck. The object is to create a community of stories based on where they live in your life.
Virtual Field Trip on Sustainability with Chicago Council on Science and Technology and the Garfield Park Conservatory
Dates: Saturday 1:45pm to 2:30pm
Age group: All ages
Location: 5085 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60644
Learn about plants, sustainability, and how humans can help the environment with C2ST and the Garfield Park Conservatory. Go on a guided virtual field trip of the Conservatory and do hands on upcycling activity that you can take home. All ages!
Music Production Workshop with TIDAL Lab
Dates: Saturday 2pm to 6pm CST
Age group: All ages, Grade 7 and up
Location: LaFollette Park - 1333 N Laramie Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
This 45 minute activity from Northwestern University combines elements of musical performance with computer coding. You’ll work with production tools to create an original beat that you translate into code using the Python programming language. No prior music or computer programming skills required. Open to all ages.
Youth Congress Inaugural Kickback
Dates: Saturday 2pm to 6pm CST
Age group: All ages
Location: LaFollette Park - 1333 N Laramie Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Join us at LaFollete park for a bonfire celebration, music, food, painting, music production workshops, and more! Also check out all the other events happening at the same time at LaFollete Park. Open to all ages.
Paint Party with Antidote Inc.
Dates: Saturday 2pm to 6pm CST
Age group: All ages
Location: LaFollette Park - 1333 N Laramie Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Antidote will be reaching the community through art. We will allow anyone and everyone to participate in expressing themselves through painting various visuals. There’s a Picasso in each of us. (Open to all ages).
Robotics Activity Build a Robot Car
Dates: Saturday 2pm to 6pm
Age group: All ages
Location: LaFollette Park - 1333 N Laramie Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Build a robot car that can drive itself with Project Exploration. Through hands on activities you will learn about robots, engineering, and coding. Free STEMkits will be available to take home and continue the fun whenever, wherever!
Chicago Park District Agents of Discovery App Launch
Dates: Sunday 12pm to 3pm CST
Age group: All ages
Location: Columbus Park - 500 S Central Ave, Chicago, IL 60644
Walking tour of Columbus Park and Austin using guided gaming app created for Austin community featuring photographs by Vanessa Stokes historian and photographer. DJ and other Remake Learning Day partners will be providing activities and snacks. All ages. Free family fun. Space is limited. Outdoors at Columbus Park Refectory weather permitting.
Cardboard Switching with Code Create
Dates: Sunday 1pm to 3:30pm CST
Age Group: Grade 6 and up
Location: Columbus Park - 500 S Central Ave, Chicago, IL 60644
Inspired by The Imagination Foundation's Global Cardboard Challenge and the MIT Media Lab's Makey Makey, participants begin by brainstorming their surroundings, exploring shapes, building simple animals, objects or machines (such as a lion, rocket ship or lamp) out of cardboard and then decorate those surfaces in aluminum foil to trigger an application (usually originally written computer code, triggered via a Makey Makey board) to create a response. Participants take the cardboard sculpture away as well as a link to Scratch.
Building Bridges with BitSpace and Chicago Austin Youth Travel Adventures
Dates: Saturday 2pm to 6pm CST
Sunday 10am to 2pm CST
Age group: Grade 6 and up
Location:
Saturday at LaFollete Park - 1333 N Laramie Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Sunday at Michele Clark High School - 5101 W Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60644
Roll up your sleeves and let's get building. Join at LaFollete Park for Day One - Bridge Building, and at Michele Clark High School for Day Two - Art Installation. Woodworking, physical construction, community building are the highlights of this event. No prior knowledge or experience necessary to join the fun!
Building and Launching Rockets
Dates: Sunday 10am to 2pm
Age group: All ages
Location: Michele Clark High School - 5101 W Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60644
Learn about the engineering design process and put it to use building a rocket from scratch. Compete to see who can design the best rocket for flying. Free STEMkits will be available to take home and continue the fun whenever, wherever!
Austin Community's DNA with Adler University
Dates: Sunday 10am to 2pm
Age group: All ages
Location: Michele Clark High School - 5101 W Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60644
You can also participate in a special community art project about Project Exploration’s “DNA”! We want YOU to contribute your piece by simply coloring a worksheet of DNA and answering some questions about how you play a unique role in Project Exploration’s community identity! We will take everyone’s DNA helixes and combine them to create PE’s collective DNA. PE will then work to paint all the DNA coloring sheets onto a special location at Project Exploration for the community to view!
Community Paint Day
Dates: Saturday 11am to 2pm
Age group: All ages
Location: Chicago & Lockwood
A community painting event on Saturday, May 15th from 11am - 2pm and Pop Courts, Chicago & Lockwood.
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