Coding on Scratch

$225/camp

5 days • 90 minutes per day

Harness the endless possibilities of your young learner’s imagination. In each week-long camp, your child will breathe life into animations, games & applications, for a fun learning experience. Developed by MIT, Scratch is a block-based coding platform ideal for introducing programming concepts. It’s highly visual interface enables our learners to focus on problem-solving, patterns and logic.

Your Child Will Learn

Coding on Scratch

• Introduces learners to Scratch and its possibilities and opens the door to an exciting world of technology.
• Builds their coding principles and computational thinking
• Simulates advanced programming concepts in an easy-to-understand visual environment with drag-and-drop functionality
• Boosts confidence in young learners

Camp 1 - Scratch Creator

Core Learning

• If they don’t have one already, your child will set up their Scratch account and join an online community of 50 million fellow students.
• Students get exposure to real-world applications and learn to create a simple version of a chatbot.
• As the week progresses, they will become familiar with Scratch’s potential and learn basic commands including Loops,
• Conditionals and Variables and Sensing to get busy creating!

Prerequisites: This is a beginner level camp with no experience necessary.

Camp 2 - Scratch Master

Core Learning

• The creative sandbox where our learners bring it all together with a can-do spirit!
• Our happy campers can now conceive more interactive features in the animations, stories, and games that they design.
• Students use more advanced concepts like Inputs, Cloning and Broadcast & Receive to create interactive stories, multi-player games and more

Prerequisites: Students need to have completed Coding on Scratch Camp 1 or similar introductory course as a prerequisite.

System Requirements

A laptop or tablet with connected keyboard and mouse, webcam, and a good Wi-Fi connection.