Introduction to Coding with Scratch

222 Columbia St NW, Olympia, WA 98501, USA

Full | Youth and Teen

Description

Most kids love to play video games, watch animations, and build with LEGO Bricks. But what if you could combine all that with learning how to control the action yourself, by learning how to code your own games, animations, and control LEGO Models with a tablet! This NEW for 2022 camp is designed for kids with little to no coding experience, especially if they are LEGO lovers looking to expand their horizons and learn the language of tomorrow: programming. We use Scratch 3 -- an amazing code environment developed at MIT especially for kids. Scratch 3 curriculum is used at many levels educationally, from Elementary school on up to high school, and it’s a great way to expand your child’s play time into a foundation for career potential! Kids will spend time on computers and tablets, but no, we don’t expect them to sit in front of a device for 3 hours! We swap activities about every 20 minutes so that kids are getting up, stretching, and doing creative building activities, mixed in with learning how to code. Campers should already have good reading skills. Not sure if your child can keep up, or not sure if they will have enough to keep them busy? The Bricks 4 Kidz approach to teaching code is fun and helps kids self-pace, so that they are challenged, but not frustrated, and able to learn and apply more each day. All campers make and take home a custom mini-figure and photo collage of the week’s experience. Please bring a snack and water bottle. Also register for the afternoon Bricks 4 Kidz LEGO Camp: Video Game Design and get a full day of supervision 8:30am-4:30pm at no extra charge (bring your lunch). Staff-to-camper ratio is 1:10.