Create & Code in Minecraft & Roblox

2023 Minecraft Create & Code

Rising 2nd-6th (Co-Ed)

June 5-9
June 19-23
July 10-14

Fee: $425 per session/Limited Enrollment

Campers will use Minecraft Education Edition, a game-based learning platform that promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving in an immersive environment where the only limit is your imagination.  Campers will start by completing building and redstone mini-challenges to develop and sharpen Minecraft skills.  They will then use those skills to work together in multi-player worlds to design and build hot air balloons, luxury resorts, and islands in the sky. 

Campers will also go on a Minecraft coding journey learning about algorithms and sequencing to loops, conditionals, and debugging. They will investigate, solve challenges, and collect samples as they journey from the Galapagos Islands to Mercury's cratered surface, coding along the way.  Campers will then solve puzzles to escape a mysterious mansion in Minecraft's Escape Estate. They will use computational thinking to unlock secrets, open trap doors, and reveal hidden clues. Code your way out by dawn and earn a million emeralds!

 

2023 3D Create & Code in Roblox

 

Rising 4th– 9th (Co-Ed)

June 12-16
June 26-30
Fee: $425 per session/Limited Enrollment
 

Campers will use Roblox Studio, an immersive creation engine, where they will manipulate 3D parts, design and playtest a variety of games focusing on a fun user experience.  They will code with Lua, a professional scripting language used by game designers around the world, to use functions, events, and loops to create special effects, traps and buttons. Campers will use their imaginations and coding skills to create simulator, story, and adventures games, and to design a city that can be destroyed with laser beams for points. Finally, campers will show off their new skills by designing and coding a round-based multiplayer experience where users compete to be the last player left. Who will win the Battle Royale?

Campers will also learn how to use Trimble SketchUp to build amazing 3D models of anything they want, such as mansions and castles, or race tracks, skate parks and space ships.  Students will learn how to draw 3D shapes and develop them into simple models, then progress onto more sophisticated techniques.  They will then learn how to import ready-made components to enhance their projects, and create a walkthrough showing the viewer around their 3D design.