LTC 073-2021 City Funded Afterschool Enrichment Spring 2021 - Miami Beach Fienberg Fisher K-8, Biscayne Beach Elementary and Miami Beach Senior High SchoolDocuSign Envelope ID: 03FBEE22-1689-45C4-BCB2-FF5A7C201BFD
MIAMI BEACH
OFFICE OF THE ITV MAANACE
NO. LTC # 073-2021 LETTER TO COMMISSION
To: Mayor Dan Gelber and Members of the City Commission
From:
Date:
Raul J. Aguila, Interim City Manager
February 18, 2021
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Subject: City Funded Afterschool Enrichment Spring 2021 - Miami Beach Fienberg Fisher
K-8, Biscayne Beach Elementary and Miami Beach Senior High School
I am pleased to provide the status of the City's free Afterschool Enrichment Program for Spring
2021 at Miami Beach Fienberg Fisher K-8, Biscayne Beach Elementary and Miami Beach
Senior High School. Classes began the week of February 8, 2021 and will end May 21, 2021
this semester. Registration for this year has been automated and current class offerings are
virtual. Youth continue to enroll in our school site afterschool enrichment programs at Miami
Beach Fienberg Fisher K-8, Biscayne Beach Elementary, and Miami Beach Senior High School.
At the April 11, 2018 Commission meeting, administration received direction to develop and
implement an afterschool enrichment program at public schools in Miami Beach with limited
access to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) activities. Support from
Miami Beach Fienberg Fisher K-8 principal Maria Costa and Biscayne Beach Elementary
principal Karen Villalba-Belusic ensures distribution of registration information within each
school community to support awareness and access.
Afterschool enrichment classes offered at Miami Beach Fienberg-Fisher K-8, Biscayne Beach
Elementary, and Miami Beach Senior High School include the following virtual options:
• Artificial Intelligence (Al) & Programming 1 & 2: Students will learn the hottest Al
topics, including path planning, speech recognition, machine learning, and more. They
will code a virtual robot in Calypso, an Al programming framework and use applications
such as speech recognition and path planning in their code. No prior experience is
required.
• Coding Games: Students will be introduced to machine learning by coding games. They
will make all kinds of fun projects by training Al models then make them come alive in
Scratch. Projects include using face detection to put a cartoon filter on your face and
making a voice-activated game with laser eyes. Each project or game focuses on a
machine learning technique and/or an area of application in the real world.
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• Playing with Physics: Accelerate an interest in physical sciences with thrilling lessons
exploring gravity, magnetism, forces, and energy. Students will start off with mechanic
fundamentals in simple machines and then increase momentum by investigating the
laws of motion and electricity before venturing into the application of physics to
cosmology and astronomy.
• Inventive Engineering: Step into an engineer's shoes and solve engineering
challenges across various fields including aerospace, biomedical, environmental and
electrical engineering. Design, build, and test while applying the engineering design
process to both fictional and real-world scenarios that are sure to foster the next
generation of creators and problem solvers.
• Unplugged Logic/Mathematics Games: Youth will use playing cards, board games
and floor games for the development of computational and algebraic thinking. The youth
will learn playing card tricks based on mathematics and will use playing cards to learn
efficient sorting algorithms. Some classic toys that will be used to also study algorithms
are: Tower of Hanoi, Rubik's Cube, Master Mind and Triangle Peg Solitaire. Other
puzzles, problems and games such as the Scramble Squares Puzzle, the Syracuse
Problem and the Broken Squares Game will be used.
• 3D Printing: Youth will use 3D printing as a means to develop their spatial visualization
ability. Three types of printing to which youth will be exposed are: printing from a file,
printing a robotics part, and printing a solid by revolving a 2D shape about an axis.
Design thinking will be explored to expose youth to how engineers define a problem,
come up with solutions, and create and test prototypes. During the printing of objects,
the youth learn about measurement and scale.
• MIT Scratch 1 & 2: Youth will be introduced to Scratch programming language by
creating an online Scratch account in which they will save games and projects. They will
learn to create games individually and follow project requirements in a group format.
Several higher-level programming commands beyond variables, loops, conditionals and
arrays will be learned. Group projects will be based on a theme common to all class
participants. Gifs will be downloaded and converted into frames to animate characters
that interact with each other.
• Book Club (Fienberg only): Youth will read a new novel every month, and
share/discuss what they have read, as well as complete activities related to the novel.
• Jazz Dance (Fienberg only): Youth will focus on learning proper dance technique such
as isolation of the body (torso and hips) improving performance quality and developing
complex rhythms and patterns. Youth will be exposed to various styles of jazz such as
broadway, hip-hop and contemporary to help develop a well-rounded dancer. Class
curriculum is based on ballet technique layered with jazz movements. The class will
include a proper warm-up, stretches, isolation, cross the floor progressions and
combinations. As youth progress through each level curriculum the movements will
become more complex and intricate.
• Rock Ensemble (Miami Beach Senior High only): The student led musical group is a
collaboration of vocalists, instrumentalists, stage crew, and a sound engineering team.
The ensemble comes together to play classic and modern rock and provides vocational
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experience to its students by engaging them in professional environments at a young
age, including performing at several locations in Miami Beach.
• Speech and Debate (Miami Beach Senior High only): Speech and debate class gives
students opportunities to hone their public speaking and research skills within a variety
of formats while working as a group, in pairs, or small groups with guidance from their
instructors. All participating students have the option to enter formal competitions.
We will continue to support our vision of being a prosperous city with a special flavor of arts,
culture, education, and business with management objectives of being known for educational
excellence (K-12). If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Dr. Leslie Rosenfeld,
Chief Learning and Development Officer.
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The City of Miami Beach is funding FREE afterschool enrichment classes for students at
Miami Beach Fienberg Fisher K8 (grades 3-8) and Biscayne Beach Elementary (grades 3-5).
Classes include: Artificial Intelligence (for beginners and advanced), Playing with Physics,
MIT Scratch l (beginners), MIT Scratch 2 (advanced), 3D Printing, Inventive Engineering, Math and
Logic Games, Book Club, and Jazz Dance Club.
• Register at register.miamibeachparks.com no later than/ Friday, February 26
• New user? Click "Create an account" and enter household i o a o
• Under "After School Programs" choose either Fienberg Enrichment or Biscayne Enrichment
to sign up for classes
For questions, contact Liana Vasseur at LianaVasseur@miamibeachfl.gov.
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La Ciudad de Miami Beach ofrece un programa de enriquecimiento extracurricular gratis
para los estudiantes de Fienberg Fisher K8 Center (de 3"° a 8° grado) y de Biscayne Beach
Elementary [de 3° a 5° grado).
Las clases incluyen: Juegos de Matematicas, Jugar con la Fisica, 3D Printing,
Inteligencia Artificial, MIT Scratch 1 (para los principantes), MIT Scratch 2 (para estudiantes
avanzados), Club de Libros, Club de Baile Jazz, y Ingeniería Inventiva.
• Inscríbase visitando register.miamibeachparks.com · antes del 26 de febrero
• Nuevo usuario? Oprima "Create an Account" (Crear una cuenta} para añadir la
información de la familia
• En "After School Programs" elija "Fienberg Enrichment" o "Biscayne Enrichment" para
inscribirse en las clases.
Para más información comuníquese con Liana Vasseur al LianaVasseur@miamibeachfl.g~v.
o deje un mensaje de voz o text con ella en
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