inventXYZ

The inventXYZ summer program takes you through making 3 full projects with online mentorship over 6 weeks.

Typically, summer programs where you code or build just 1 project cost $900 to $5,000.

inventXYZ's summer program is designed to be as accessible as possible, at $499 for 6 weeks.

The summer program starts July 1st, 2020. The Virus simulator project materials will be available then. The Pong game project materials will be available on July 15th. The Autopilot car simulation materials will be available starting August 1.

The online support will end on August 16th, but you'll have access to the materials during the fall 2020 semester in case you want to reference something or show your teacher!

Nope. You can be any timezone in the USA.

The project documents and many of the debug videos/GIFs are premade.

The Q&A forum will be available 24-7 and we will be monitoring it throughout the day (not at night- We need to sleep too!)

We'll host 2 to 3 video mentorship sessions each week. Each session will be 2-3 hours where we answer your questions. We'll try to schedule them so that anyone who wants help can get it.

We send your order to our vendor as soon as you sign up. It will typically take a week (often shorter depending on where in the US you are). If more than 500 people sign up for this summer program, there may be slight delays, but we'll keep you updated if that happens.

Yes! We have our team of curriculum developers who wrote each of the projects as well as a team of Teaching Assitants (TAs) who will host video mentorship sessions.

Our goal is to provide 2 to 3 sessions per week each 2-3 hours long. This way you can hop in on the video call and ask specific questions or join in when someone else has a similar question to yours. We'll help you debug your code or hardware. We're all experienced in coding and have gotten stuck many times :)

If more than 500 students join the program, we may schedule additional sessions.

The course is designed for people entering 8-12th grade.

Ideally you've seen a little bit of algebra and physics (slope of a line, quadratic equations, systems of equations, Newton's laws).

You don't need to already know how to code or prototype with electronics - we've tried to design the course materials to teach you these things so that you can complete the projects and work on similar projects on your own.

That said, having seen this stuff at least once before does make it easier.

You'll likely get slightly different things out of the summer program at different experience levels.

If you're a complete beginner, THAT'S OK! We're writing the material to help you get started and understand what the heck is going on. One of the best ways to learn a skill is to do a project and learn the things you'll need to get that project finished. We'll help you do that.

If you've coded or used an Arduino before, we'll take that a step further and introduce good practices and techniques to speed up your programs.

Don't worry! We'll walk you through installing these things. Installing software was always one of the more confusing things that used to frustrate us.

Every piece of software that you need is free. You'll need Python, a text-editor for coding (we recommend VS Code), and a few other things. A Windows, Mac, or Linux computer with an Intel or AMD CPU should be able to run these.

A Raspberry Pi might struggle on some parts. A Chromebook *may* work depending on your allowed permissions but we HAVE NOT TESTED IT.