It's our last week of Summer Camp for 2025! We've had such a great time learning and growing our skills while making new friends and reuniting with old ones! If you're loving Boolean Girl, you can sign up for our upcoming Fall Clubhouse at Marymount University. Clubhouses are Saturday mornings from 9-Noon. Learn more and sign up here!
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Mid-Week Update
We kicked off the week with so many fantastic projects already in creation!
Reminder: Fun Friday Presentations & Pizza
We will be having pizza for lunch on Friday, so if your child would like to have pizza, please send them with $5 by the end of Thursday (if you haven't already) and we will add them to the pizza order list.
We will also be having our camp-wide project presentations for each camp starting at 2PM. We invite all families to come by to see our young coders’ projects from each of our camps. Whether you can or can’t make it, or need to show up later than 2PM, your child will have their project saved on their online account and on our public Google Drive, which will be accessible at home. More information will be sent in our recap email after Camp has concluded (email will be sent the following week).
Build Games in Scratch
After learning how to create stories in Scratch, our advanced Scratch campers are exploring how to create their own gaming platform like the classics, Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, and so many more. Most students decided to make interactive games or videos. We're looking forward to seeing the final results on Friday!
Scratch campers have been busy working on their miniature game designs. One camper is creating a game called Star Destroy featuring space and aliens! There is very exciting work brewing in Scratch.
Question to ask your budding computer scientist: What kind of game are you building, and what are your sprites doing?
Storytelling in Scratch
In our Code Your Own Adventure camp, your children are creating their own interactive choose-your-own-adventure stories in Scratch by coding flow charts, user inputs, and conditionals to move their original story along. Along the way the player makes choices in the story that takes our adventurer in different directions.
Question to ask your budding coder: Who are your main characters (sprites) are and where is your adventure heading?
micro:bit Wearables
In our micro:bit Wearables camp, your children are working on their very own prototype designs such as wearable art, fitness apps, or wearable safety devices. This week we are already seeing creative inventions such as a hat to teach you to dance and a tool to help the blind navigate safely.
Micro:bit campers have so far been focused on programming their micro:bits and the planning stages of their designs to present at the gallery walk. Many campers began to bring out the crafts they plan to include in their projects. Students and instructors have been busy cutting out material and providing coding assistance.
Question to ask your budding inventor: What kind of wearable are you creating, and what will it do?
Web Development
In our Web Development camps, campers have been creating their own websites about themselves and their interests by writing HTML code and formatting it with an external CSS stylesheet. They are making their own classes and IDs in CSS to change the look of their websites as well as adding images and links.
On Tuesday, Web Design campers enjoyed some fun rounds of Categories before diving back into HTML content! Once it was time to learn again, students actively listened to lectures and presentations from instructors that will help guide them in their webpage designs. It will be exciting to see what the students present on Friday!
Question to ask your future web developer: What will they be showcasing on their website?
Resources
👉 Create a Scratch account and save all your children’s projects online and share them with the rest of your family and friends. Scratch is available for free at https://scratch.mit.edu/.
👉 You can purchase a micro:bit Kit at https://www.microbitkit.com/.
👉 Learn more about HTML, CSS, and JavaScript at www.w3schools.com.
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