
This is our 10th year offering summer camps in Arlington and 7th year in Montgomery County!
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Arlington - Marymount
Mid-Week Update
Reminder: Fun Friday Presentations & Pizza
Strawbees + micro:bits
Question to ask your budding engineer: What is your favorite part of the city you are creating?
Coding Adventures 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.
Scratch students have focused on a lecture from Instructor Julie who showed them all the special elements Scratch had to offer. Students voiced their opinions on the elements they liked best and began using them for their own projects.
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 began using code to program their micro:bits! Sometime's figuring out the code and getting the code to work can be tricky, but with help from our amazing instructors, the projects are coming to life!
Question to ask your budding inventor: What kind of wearable are you creating, and what will it do?
Getting Started in Python (Python 1: Turtle Art)
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/.
👉 Trinket is a free development environment you can use to code in Python at home, available at https://trinket.io.
👉 You can purchase a micro:bit Kit at https://www.microbitkit.com/.
Silver Spring
Mid-Week Update
Reminder: Pizza Party Friday!
Children who don't want pizza should bring their lunch, and everyone should still bring their snacks. We will also be having a "Show and Tell" for students to present to their classmates and families. If you are available to join, the Scratch room will present first at 2:30PM, and at 2:45PM we will all go see what the Python and micro:bit rooms have made.
Code Your Own Adventure in Scratch (Scratch 2)
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?
👉 Scratch is available for free at https://scratch.mit.edu/
You can create an account and save all your children’s projects online and share them with the rest of your family and friends.
👉 You can purchase a micro:bit Kit at https://www.microbitkit.com/
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