Online Resources

Course	Software (Website)	Software (Download)	Hardware
3D Design	TinkerCAD – Free https://www.tinkercad.com/ Google Chrome 10 Mozilla FireFox 4 Windows 7 Apple OS X 10.6 Graphics card supports WebGL.
2D Design	Easel – Free https://www.inventables.com/technologies/easel Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 2 Ghz CPU	Inkscape – Free https://inkscape.org/ Windows 2000 or later Mac OS X (10.4 Tiger) or later 1GHz processor 256Gb RAM CorelDraw – Paid with Free Trial https://www.coreldraw.com/en/ Windows 10, 8.1 or 7 2GB RAM 1GB Hard drive space Intel core i3/5/7 or AMD Athlon 64
Graphic Design	Canva – Free with Paid options https://www.canva.com/ Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Safari Edge Internet Explorer (IE11 only)
Video Game Design	Flowlab – Free with Paid options http://flowlab.io/ Requires Flash plugin on browser	Game Maker Studios 2 – Free with Paid options https://accounts.yoyogames.com/downloads 64bit Intel compatible Dual Core CPU 2GB RAM DX 11 compliant graphics card Microsoft 64-bit Windows 7 HDD with at least 3GB of free disk space
Coding with Python	Trinket – Free with Paid options https://trinket.io/
Coding with Arduino	TinkerCad (Circuits) – Free https://www.tinkercad.com/ Graphics card supports WebGL	Arduino IDE – Free https://www.arduino.cc/en/main/software Windows 8, 7, Vista SP2 128GB RAM 600Mb free disk space Pentium 2 266 MHz processor	Arduino – Paid https://elmwoodelectronics.ca/collections/arduino Use the code “stemminds” for 10% off most items!
Coding with Drones		Makeblock – Free https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cc.makeblock.makeblock&hl=en Android 4.3 and up https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/makeblock-play-stem-robots/id918804737?mt=8 iOS 9.0 or later iPhone, iPad, iPod touch	Airblock – Paid https://www.makeblock.com/steam-kits/airblock
Film & Photography	Pixlr – Free with Paid option https://pixlr.com/ Adobe Flash Plug-in	Stop Motion Studio – Free https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/stop-motion-studio/id441651297?mt=8 iOS 9.0 or later https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cateater.stopmotionstudio&hl=en_CA Android 5.0 and up Windows Movie Maker – Free https://www.topwin-movie-maker.com/ 600MHz processor 128GB RAM 2GB Hard Disk Space Go Play Editor – Free https://www.goplayeditor.com/
Lego Robotics		LEGO Mindstorms – Free https://www.lego.com/en-us/mindstorms/downloads 2GB RAM 1.5GHz processor 2GB available hard disk space Available USB port or Bluetooth 2.0 or above Virtual Robotics Toolkit – Paid https://www.virtualroboticstoolkit.com/ intel processors (i3, i5) AMD processors (A8, A10) 4GB RAM Integrated Graphics Card Mac OS X Lion – or better Windows 7 – or better	LEGO EV3 – Paid https://spectrum-nasco.ca/catalogsearch.htm?Action=Display&Search=LEGO%20EV3&PLPG=ECCDES%20-%20EV3
Robotics 101 – Bee Bot		Kodable – Paid https://www.kodable.com/download	Bee-Bot – Paid https://www.amazon.com/Bee-Bot-Rechargeable-Robot/dp/B0141I3RBU
Robotics 202 – Dash and Dot		Dash Apps (Wonder, Blockly, Go, Path, Xylo) – Free https://www.makewonder.com/apps/ iOS 8.0 or later Android 4.4 and up Blocklify 4 Kids – Free https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dcsdb.blocklify.kids&hl=en iOS 8.1 or later Android 4.4 and up	Dash Robot – Canada – Paid http://logicsacademy.com/store/wonder-workshop/ Dash Robot – US – Paid https://www.makewonder.com/robots/dash/
Robotics 303 – Sphero		Sphero EDU – Free https://www.sphero.com/education/ iOS 9.0 or later Android 5.0 and up	Sphero – Paid https://www.sphero.com/
Web Development	Mozilla Thimble – Free https://thimble.mozilla.org/en-US/
App Development	Ionic Creator – Free with Paid options https://creator.ionic.io/app/login?didUserLogOut=true
Coding with Java		Eclipse IDE – Free https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/ Java Version 1.4.0 512 MB RAM 300 MB disk space 800 MHz Processor speed
Coding with C++		Visual Studio IDE – Free https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/ 1.6GHz processor 1GB RAM 50MB disk space 5400 RPM hard disk drive DirectX 9-capable video card
Little Computer Engineers	Studio Code – Free https://studio.code.org/s/pre-express Compatible with Chromebook and iPads	Arduino IDE – Free https://www.arduino.cc/en/main/software Windows 8, 7, Vista SP2 128GB RAM 600Mb free disk space Pentium 2 266 MHz processor	Arduino – Paid https://elmwoodelectronics.ca/collections/arduino
Young Entrepreneurs	TinkerCad – Free https://www.tinkercad.com/ Google Chrome 10 Mozilla FireFox 4 Windows 7 Apple OS X 10.6 Graphics card supports WebGL. Canva – Free with Paid options https://www.canva.com/ Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Safari Edge Internet Explorer (IE11 only) Ionic Creator – Free with Paid Options https://creator.ionic.io/app/login?didUserLogOut=true	Arduino IDE – Free https://www.arduino.cc/en/main/software Windows 8, 7, Vista SP2 128GB RAM 600Mb free disk space Pentium 2 266 MHz processor	Arduino – Paid https://elmwoodelectronics.ca/collections/arduino
Minecraft Club		Minecraft Education Edition – Paid https://education.minecraft.net/get-started/download/ 1 GHz or faster processor 1GB RAM for 32-bit, 2GB RAM for 64-bit DirectX 9 or later Disk Space: 16GB for 32-bit OS, 20GB for 64-bit OS Minecraft Code Builder (Works with Education Edition) – Included with Education Edition https://education.minecraft.net/cs/

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