This camp will focus on the fundamentals of chess including strategies for the beginning, middle and endgame. Students will develop their skills through puzzles, lessons, and games against other students. The instructor will challenge students with exciting openings and unique strategies as they play games in groups. This camp is designed for beginners and those new to chess that want to improve their skills.

Ages 7-18, let's learn some keyboarding skills! Build fast, confident typing skills in a fun and engaging way! Students learn proper finger placement, accuracy, and speed through games and hands-on activities designed for young learners. A strong foundation in keyboarding sets kids up for success in school and beyond.  Join us to learn proper technique and practice improving your speed and accuracy. Students will play fun typing games to reinforce proper technique.

Unleash your child’s creativity in our Digital Art Camp! Students will dive into the exciting world of digital design and illustration, learning to create and edit images, shapes, and text while experimenting with photo collages, digital brushes, selection tools, filters, and more.

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Throughout camp, students will gain confidence using professional digital art tools, exploring concepts like image resolution, color management, file formats, and pixel depth. They’ll also learn texturing, compositing, and special effects to bring their creations to life, and even design frames for animations! By the end of camp, students will not only have amazing digital artwork but also a strong foundation in digital creativity and design.

Looking for a fun, hands-on way for your child to learn coding? Our Scratch Coding Camp introduces students to the exciting world of programming with colorful, block-based coding that makes learning both easy and creative. Campers will bring their own games, stories, and artwork to life while strengthening typing, reading, and problem-solving skills in a playful, kid-friendly environment.

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With Scratch, your child can create characters, design animations, switch backdrops, keep score, and build all kinds of interactive projects. Along the way, they’ll explore important coding and math concepts like events, loops, variables, random numbers, and the coordinate grid all while gaining confidence in the fundamentals of programming. By the end of camp, students won’t just be playing with Scratch they’ll be creating their own interactive worlds!

Level up your creativity at our Roblox Game Design & Coding Camp!  Using Roblox Studio, students will design, build, and code their own games while learning beginner LUA programming, game design, and storytelling. With hands-on projects and easy-to-follow scripts, kids will add challenges, actions, and interactive elements to their creations, and leave with games they can play and share with friends and family.

This camp introduces the cool web technologies of HTML and CSS that form web pages! Learn techniques to design and build a basic web page with animated graphics and learn about the underlying frameworks and scripting languages that can power websites.  Examples of projects include a greeting card, a recipe, and a custom page relating to the student’s interest such as cars and sports. 

Ready to bring your game ideas to life? Our Game Design with Godot Camp is an exciting, hands-on experience designed for students ages 9–12 who want to explore the world of game development. Using the powerful Godot game engine, students will dive into text-based programming by writing GDScript while building their own 2D and 3D games. Along the way, they’ll strengthen core programming skills such as conditionals, loops, and counters and explore key game design elements including animation, audio programming, physics, and more. A foundational background in programming is recommended.

Check out some of the incredible projects made in Godot here.

ComputerCraft is a modification for Minecraft that’s all about computer programming. It allows students to build in-game Computers and Turtle Robots, writing programs for Minecraft using the Lua programming language. By learning how to program computers in ComputerCraft, students gain extra control over their Minecraft worlds and can create new and exciting things.  

This mod allows you to build fully-functioning computers inside your Minecraft world, then use those computers much like you use a real computer. Students can play games and program the robots to carry out actions, such as mining, farming, crafting and protecting them against monsters, while learning basic programming concepts such as loops, variables, and conditional statements.  

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Minecraft is a lot of fun.  However, it is more engaging, entertaining, and educational when kids learn how to build mods—small programs that let users modify game elements and add content. This introductory class teaches kids and parents how to create mods of different types, using the Minecraft Forge modding tool. No programming experience is needed.

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Ages 7-11 & 12-16. Young Innovators & Entrepreneurs is an exciting, hands-on program designed to inspire creativity, leadership, and entrepreneurial thinking in young minds. Campers will explore innovation, problem-solving, business basics, and creative thinking through engaging activities, team challenges, and real-world projects. This camp helps students build confidence, collaboration skills, and a growth mindset while learning how ideas turn into action. Perfect for aspiring creators, future leaders, and young entrepreneurs eager to think big and innovate.

This course will teach app building for Android-based mobile phones and tablets using MIT App Inventor - a visual programming environment that will raise your kids from the status of technology consumer to technology creator. Apps are created by simple drag and drop features instead of the regular and more complex coding environment. Students can bring their own Android device or use the Android phones that will be provided. 

Attendees will learn useful features such as how an app uses the camera, voice recognition, and language translation. User interface components like buttons, sliders, and notifications will also be created. There are over 22 million apps in the library of MIT App Inventor, created by 400,000 unique monthly users from 195 countries!

This camp has the potential for an endless amount of projects.

Curious about artificial intelligence and machine learning? Our AI & Machine Learning Camp introduces students to these exciting, cutting-edge technologies in a hands-on and creative way. Campers will learn key AI concepts while training machine learning models to recognize text, numbers, images, or sounds turning coding into a fun, interactive experience.

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Building on foundational coding skills, students will bring their AI creations to life using Scratch and App Inventor. They’ll design projects, build games, and explore how smart models work, gaining confidence in both programming and problem-solving. Concepts covered in camp include:

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• Algorithms

• Data processing

• Classification

• Machine learning

This camp introduces students to coding by creating fun projects such as watches and step counters. Students will learn about the Internet of Things using Micro:bit. This camp is designed for kids and beginners and is non-intimidating for new programmers. Students will take home their wearables!

Topics covered:

• Micro:bit interface

• Understanding basic Hardware

• Building machines

For students who have had some coding experience, this is an introduction to object-oriented programming.  Learn about topics like polymorphism, classes, abstraction, and inheritance.  Students will put these into practice by building engaging applications. Did you know that Minecraft was created using only Java? Students will have the ability to create their own games such as tic-tac-toe, endless runner, and many more exciting projects.

This camp introduces campers to building, controlling, and playing with Robots! Campers will use an easy to learn, block-based coding platform to control their robots and learn basic coding concepts such as event-handling and conditionals. Campers will also get hands-on and manipulate their robots using gears, motors, and electricity. For this camp we will be using the Ozobot Evo and Makeblock mBot brand robots. Dive into the world of robotics today!

Python is often thought to be the best first typed language for beginners to learn!  Not only is this language easy to learn, it is commonly used in the professional technology world to achieve a wide variety of results such as website development, machine learning, game creation, and data science/analytics. Learn to use loops, counters, conditionals, and other basic coding constructs. Python is the real deal, favored by companies such as Instagram, YouTube, and Spotify.  We will introduce algorithmic or computational thinking that will help students solve problems logically before coding.

Concepts covered:

• Navigating a code editor

• Turtle, a library of code to help generate graphic art

• Basic coding concepts