About This Course
Take the lead in this online version of our camp by building your own interactive programs in a visual coding language designed by the MIT Media Lab. With Scratch, you’ll create imaginative games that send you as far as space, blasting away the meteors in your path! You’ll shift gears to VEXcode VR, learning to program a virtual robot to navigate mazes on its own with sensors and adaptive variables. As you explore math and science concepts, your pathway to learning Python and C++ begins—switch to the code viewer in VEXcode VR to see behind the scenes and start writing your own Python code. There’s no better way to dive into the exciting world of STEM!
Tools: Scratch by MIT Media Lab
Topics Covered
- Develop a game design and programming skill set
- Create variables and conditional statements
- Work with mathematical operators and equations
- Build dynamic code and interactive games
Course Format
This course is part of a a weeklong and weekend virtual summer camp running Monday through Friday and some for Saturday and Sunday. Your child will learn online with a small group of other students, in sessions led by expert instructors. Each day includes one hours of live instruction.
Curriculum
- 17 Sections
- 17 Lessons
- 13 Weeks
- Introduction to Technology1
- Getting Started with Scratch1
- Input and output1
- Types of data strings1
- Creating using variables1
- Concatenation1
- Doing basic math1
- Using if you decide what to do1
- More math relation operators1
- Building a game higher or lower1
- Improving or lower game1
- Creating definite loops1
- Creating indefinite loops1
- Calculating the length of stings1
- Creating a palindrome checker1
- Creating arrays1
- Creating an insult generator1
Requirements
- Laptop
- Zoom Application
- Internet
Target audiences
- 7 - 15 years