Wize Computing Academy of East Valley, Arizona

02/16/2026

Minecraft Mini-Camp Announcement

🌻 Spring break is around the corner! 🌷 If your kids are like ours, by the second week of break (or earlier?!?) they'll be pushing for more and more time consuming screens.

Join our Mon-Wed, Mar 16-18 mini spring break camp (9 am - noon) and turn that screen time into creating, learning to code in Minecraft Education, designing and collaborating with friends to create base camps, habitats, animal habitats and more in our 🌱Amazon Rainforest 🌿themed spring break Minecraft Coding and Modding camp! 💻

Register today! https://tinyurl.com/springminecraft

Location: The Learning Vine: Microschool (near Empire/Hawes in QC)
Dates: Mon-Wed, Mar 16-18
Time: 9 am - Noon
Age: 1st - 6th graders (some flexibility - send a message or email if you want to discuss)

02/10/2026

Spring break camps are live! We'll be posting more info about two mini-camps over March spring break. Looking forward to coding with your students!

4th-6th graders: Game Design in Roblox
Mar 9-11th (Mon-Wed), 9 am - Noon
Ironwood Crossing Community Center
https://tinyurl.com/springroblox

1st-6th graders: Amazon Rainforest in Minecraft Education
Mar 16-18th (Mon-Wed), 9 am - Noon
The Learning Vine: Microschool
https://tinyurl.com/springminecraft

01/26/2026

At Wize Computing Academy, hands-on learning lives in the Innovation Zone—where creativity, STEM skills, and curiosity come together through LEGO Robotics, Minecraft Education, and (coming soon!) Roblox Game Design. 🚀🧠

01/13/2026

🎉It was an absolute blast to coach these two FLL Explore teams!

We traveled to the ASU Glendale campus on Saturday to present months of learning (Unearthed theme - archeology!), designing, building, coding and creating presentations to showcase our work.

We are so proud of these 8 young learners who pushed past a little bit of public speaking anxiety to present to two judges, parents, family and friends all on their own! Wize Team Galaxy won a trophy for their Teamwork and Wize Team Stardust won a trophy for their creative cliff-dwelling Lego model.

Congrats to our FLL Explore teams! 💫

01/09/2026

Legacy Traditional School - Queen Creek families - Sign up today for after school clubs starting next week on Wednesdays!

Minecraft Coding and Modding - 2nd - 6th graders will learn to code in the Minecraft Education program. https://tinyurl.com/qcusdminecraftQ3

Lego Robotics & Coding - Kinder-3rd graders will build and learn to code their Lego creations to move, react, and even make sound effects. https://tinyurl.com/qcusdlegoessentials

01/09/2026

Mountain Trail Academy - Lego Robotics & Coding Club starts Tuesday for Kinder-3rd graders! This Q3 club runs every Tuesday from 3:00-4:15 and students use the fun of Legos to build creations they can bring to life using code they'll learn, design and write. Sign up here today: https://tinyurl.com/qcusdlegoessentials

01/09/2026

Desert Mountain Elementary School students - Sign up today for after school clubs starting next week on Tuesdays!

Minecraft Coding and Modding - 2nd - 6th graders will learn to code in the Minecraft Education program. https://tinyurl.com/qcusdminecraftQ3

Lego Robotics & Coding - Kinder-3rd graders will build and learn to code their Lego creations to move, react, and even make sound effects. https://tinyurl.com/qcusdlegoessentials

01/07/2026

Wow!

⚡LEGO just dropped their biggest innovation since... ever.
The new SMART Play™ System embeds sensors directly into bricks—responding to motion, detecting colors, and reacting to how kids play with light and sound.

As STEAM educators, we see this for what it is: computational thinking through tangible play.

Kids won't just build. They'll program physical behavior, experience real-time feedback, and develop engineering intuition—all without a screen.

🔗 https://www.lego.com/en-us/smart-play

01/05/2026

We're thrilled to be bringing our project-based coding club to Traditional School - San Tan later this month! Students will learn how to use coordinates & graphing skills, combined with beginning coding techniques they'll learn in our program, to bring their designs to life in the Minecraft Education platform.

Space is limited - sign your LTS STV students up now for an intro to Computer Science while they think they're playing their favorite game. 😀

Register Here for 6 week Friday after school class: https://tinyurl.com/LTSclubsQ3

01/01/2026

We had a blast at our ❄️ Holiday Lego Robotics 🤖 camp! We spent two days building holiday-themed projects, but when our students requested construction equipment & cars, we pivoted on the last day of camp to lean into their interests. As one 7 year old astutely pointed out, "People use cranes and cars over the holidays, too!"

💫Happy New Year! 🎉

12/27/2025

We hope everyone is enjoying their holiday break! We are excited to be starting Lego (K-3) and Minecraft (2-6) STEM clubs at Desert Mountain Elementary School when we all return to school in January. See you Tuesdays during Q3!

11/27/2025

🍂 We hope your day is filled with family, gratitude, good food, and some creativity building Minecraft and Lego turkeys 🦃! Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours.