Friday, June 29, 2018

Gamers Camp Friday

Friday

The campers completed their touches on their school this morning.  They were very proud of their work but in true Minecraft fashion were also very excited to blow it up.  Before they destroyed their work they made sure to take plenty of pictures which will be included in another post.

If your camper is interested in continuing to learn about coding below are some resources they were introduced to this week in camp.  Please note that Scratch and Stencyl are used by adults and kids, and you should monitor your child's activity on these sites.  Tynker is designed primarily as a kid site.

Scratch                 www.scratch.mit.edu   (Free)
Stencyl                 www.stencyl.com/pricing/   (Free and Paid Options)
Tynker                  www.tynker.com/parents/  (Free and  Paid Options)  

Today we also watched a video on the future of video games.  It is an exciting future that if your camper continues to learn to code their own games they might just have a hand in crafting.

Moving to a New Level in LEGO Lunch

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