Summer Camps

Students explore a variety of classic platformers, like Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong, before learning how to create a platformer of their own. Instructors will teach several advanced game components, such as keeping score, adding timers, and leveling up. Students will also learn the basics of video game player movement by making their sprites run, jump, and interact with objects and other sprites. This class is the first step towards creating more advanced, multi-level games!

See these example projects built in past camps

Take a hands-on approach to Coding in this unique camp that incorporates programming, engineering, circuits, and art/creativity. If your programmer thinks coding is cool, they will love how they can write code to control physical objects like lights, motors, and motion sensors to create robots that drive and perform other tasks like blowing bubbles, playing music, or racing through a course. Like all of our camps, campers will be inspired to design and create their own inventions. Campers will work alone and on teams using lego blocks and other common household items like cardboard, pipe cleaners, glue, and so on to build a variety of robotic gadgets.

We know this camp will inspire your children to keep on creating at home! 

Interested in the intersection of technology and fashion, fitness, safety, music, or really anything, this is the camp to prototype an invention of your own design using a microbit computer to control sensors, motors, and other apparatus.

With a focus on wearable tech, inventors, guided by our female rockstar staff, might build wearable art, fitness apps, or wearable safety devices like the bike helmet with turn signals. Campers will be inspired to design and create their own inventions using a microbit, lego blocks, and other common household items.Read More

We know this camp will inspire your children to keep on creating at home!

Python is one of the most widely used programming languages in the world – it is used by many well-known tech companies including Wikipedia, …Google, Yahoo!, NASA, Facebook, Amazon, and Spotify. In this course, students will learn coding and computational thinking using Python syntax. Students will encounter important coding concepts like loops, variables, and lists while they use Python to build a drawing application that creates a work of art. In addition to coding, interested students will have a chance to express their creativity through visual design. If your learner is ready for Python, this class will give them foundational knowledge and skills while having fun.

See these example projects built in past camps

text adventure in Python. Part game, part story, a code your own adventure program is inspired by the famous Choose Your Own Adventure book series in which the reader makes decisions that affect the steps and outcome of the story.

In this Python version, students will review concepts from the previous course and learn how to implement new concepts like conditionals, functions, and user input.  Students will demonstrate and celebrate their problem solving skills and perseverance as they build a custom user-driven adventure in Python.

In the process of building their projects, campers will learn what AI is, and how machines learn.  They will also play with real AI tools. Campers will build an AI app that uses machine learning and identify the ways in which they are already interacting with AI, and explore the origins and history of artificial intelligence. By the end of this course, coders will be able to demonstrate and explain how computers mimic human intelligence by making “smart” decisions.

This course is taught in Scratch so the campers can concentrate on AI principles, not learning a new coding language.

Please see class requirements before enrolling.