Science, Tech, Engineering, Art & Maths
Workshops
STEAM Workshops (Science, Tech, Engineering, Art, Maths)
CMA Workshops include a wide range of STEAM workshops and Creative Technologies including 3D Modelling, 3D Printing, Wind Energy, Coding, Robotics, Drones, Rockets, Patterns & Ratios, Sound Production, Holograms, Flight, Micro Bits, GoPro Video, Dragon’s Den (inventions & entrepreneurship), Music Tech, Green Screen Production, Film Production, Stop Motion Animation, Podcasting, Song Writing and Band Performance.
New: CMA is proud to announce a new partnership (Summer 2023) with the Bike Engineering Academy, introducing a new module to the STEAM workshops, where students (15 years +) will explore key concepts through the construction and design of bicycles.
Generally there is a even split between STEAM Workshops, Adventure Activities and Team Sports.
At CMA we create unique learning environments where students can feel comfortable, confident and inspired to explore key concepts through hands on, interactive and highly visual workshops while having a brilliant time packed with fun filled activities and amazing outcomes led by our wonderful team of educators, teachers and activity leaders.
For example, students will be looking at geometric transformations in x,y,z planes during their 3D Modelling and 3D Printing workshops. Students can use GoPro cameras while surfing and work out their speed later in workshops using the footage they’ve captured; they can also use the GoPro surfing footage as part of their Green Screen Production workshop, where students produce their own news TV broadcast using green screen technology and whatever footage they’d like to include, such as surfing. Music composed and recorded in Music Tech workshops can be used in their Film Production workshop, or indeed used as the intro music for their news broadcast.
Students can look forward to exploring key concepts in our various workshops such as exploring key trigonometric concepts in music technology workshops; looking at patterns/series through art; or geometry though coding and robotics. The sky is the limit.
Exploring how wind energy works and then assembling model Wind Turbines and demonstrating what energy can be produced by the wind. Measurements are taken to see the power in the wind on any particular day.
Students explore shapes and properties of light while using iPhones to create holograms.
Using tiny handheld programmable computers that can create musical instruments and robots among others. These workshops are complimented with Coding & Robotics workshops.
The ever-popular Karaoke night. Students can enjoy a wonderful evening of Karaoke with great spot prizes and loads of fun.
Creating and producing stop motion animations using models, plasticine, drawings, graphics and other methods. Stop Motion movies are shown at the ever popular Movie Awards night with great prizes on offer.
3D Computer Aided Design
Exploring how drones work and flying model drones through various courses using hand sensors. Calculating speeds and distances using drones.
Exploring what sound is, how it’s produced and discovering sound waves, frequencies, vibrations and visual patterns created by Chladni plates and drums and different instruments.
Designing and creating 3D models and representations in x,y,z planes which are then scaled appropriately to be printed on a 3D Printer. How a 3D Printer works is explored and students take their 3D Printed models with them.
An assault course on campus on Rockwell Lake including rafting, rope bridges, zip line and other challenging obstacles for students to manoeuvre. (*Rockwell Only)
Exploring and manipulating programming languages such as drag and drop software like Scratch or other languages like Python to get computers to behave and create content such as animations or music. Scratch can also be used to analyse the flight paths of the water rockets built in the Flight workshops.
Students wear GoPro video cameras to record their adventure sports activities, and which can also be used to calculate speeds.
An assault course on campus on Rockwell Lake including rafting, rope bridges, zip line and other challenging obstacles for students to manoeuvre. (*Rockwell Only)
An adrenalin fuelled activity on the High Ropes and Zip Line.
Orienteering is a sport that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed, equipped with a topographical map (a specially prepared orienteering map), which they use to find control points.
A great recent addition to CMA Summer Camp at Rockwell, students can enjoy all the thrills and spills of the Water Park on campus on Rockwell Lake. *(Rockwell Only)
Students enjoy a wide range of team challenges from blindfolded assault courses to coordinated plank races and dice games, team work is the key. On arrival day, students are immediately involved in these team challenges and ice breakers and by the time they’re going to supper they’ve made great friends and have settled in.
Kayaking takes place on campus on Rockwell Lake and all levels from beginners upwards are catered for. All equipment is provided.
Students enjoy the wonderful atmosphere of the woods for Archery. A firm favourite.
Exploring how wind energy works and then assembling model Wind Turbines and demonstrating what energy can be produced by the wind. Measurements are taken to see the power in the wind on any particular day.
Creating and producing stop motion animations using models, plasticine, drawings, graphics and other methods. Stop Motion movies are shown at the ever popular Movie Awards night with great prizes on offer.
Exploring what sound is, how it’s produced and discovering sound waves, frequencies, vibrations and visual patterns created by Chladni plates and drums and different instruments.
Exploring, designing and building water rockets using compressed air. Looking at Newton’s Third Law and ratios.
Students get to explore different instruments like electric guitars, acoustic guitars, bass, drums, keyboards and just about anything that can make music, form a band and perform together. Loads of fun and very loud!
Using programming languages such as scratch in conjunction with Raspberry Pi Technology to remotely control robots through various mazes and other challenges.
Writing, recording and producing podcasts of various themes and topics, while also exploring which microphones, cables, software packages and mixing desks etc are best suited for different situations.
Exploring various patterns and ratios evident in nature, art, film, and music such as Fibonacci, The Golden Ratio and wave machines. Game Theory is also explore. These concepts are applied to other creative workshops such as sound production, music technology, 3D printing and film production.
Students create musical tracks using sequencers such as Garage Band and Logic Pro, and can sample sounds and record live instruments to add to the tracks. Tracks can also be used as soundtracks for their movies and Green Screen Productions.
Exploring the key concepts of motion, speed, distance and time through interactive and highly engaging workshops whether, for example, calculating speed of flying objects such as drones and planes, or the speed of an arrow in archery or your own speed while running or indeed surfing using GoPro cameras. Students also use iPads to record and analyse flight paths of…
Using tiny handheld programmable computers that can create musical instruments and robots among others. These workshops are complimented with Coding & Robotics workshops.
The ever-popular Karaoke night. Students can enjoy a wonderful evening of Karaoke with great spot prizes and loads of fun.
CMA has a wide range of team sports including basketball, volleyball, handball, dodge ball, football, tennis, hockey, rounders, hurling, tag rugby, swimming and water polo. At CMA Rockwell Campus, we have world class sporting facilities including indoor gym, indoor swimming pool, Water Park & Assault Course on Rockwell Lake, Astro turf and grass playing fields, tennis, basketball and volleyball courts.…