Summer Camp 2025: Aug 4-8

Written by Boolean Girl | Aug 7, 2025 2:11:31 PM

Silver Spring camps came to an end last week, but we still have two weeks left of Marymount camps in Arlington! Check out the updates below and scroll down for photos!

Arlington - Marymount

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 for games like "Farm Hop" on Friday!

A lot of our Scratch campers are using their knowledge to create walk-through course games. Wicked has also been popular at camp this summer, and one camper this week created characters from Wicked for her game!

Question to ask your budding computer scientist: What kind of game are you building, and what are your sprites doing?

Create an Artificial Intelligence Application

In our Artificial Intelligence camp, your children are applying their coding knowledge in Scratch to build an AI app using machine learning. Throughout the week, campers are learning how to interact with AI tools and how AI impacts our lives.

AI campers began the week by brainstorming ideas for their chatbot. There are so many cool ideas, such as a chatbot that can walk you through cooking recipes. Seeing the final results at the gallery walk will be very exciting.

Question to ask your AI camper: What kind of application are you creating?

micro:bit Robotics

Our micro:bit Robotics campers are learning how to create inventions by programming micro:bit microcomputers with Microsoft Make:Code. Getting creative, campers will design, build, and code their own inventions. So far, they've been working on building their own robotic pets and will soon be adding various motors and sensors to them.

The micro:bit campers are bursting with creativity! There was so much craft material being used at the start of the week to create animal micro:bits. Students have created dogs, flower boxes, bunnies, and beavers so far!

Question to ask your micro:bit Robotics camper: What robotic invention are you working on creating?

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/.

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