10-year-old
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Minecraft Advanced, Ages 9-12
Students explore more advanced topics like engineering with Redstone, using enchantments, brewing potions, surviving zombie sieges and excavating structures. Students will also learn about World Edit, an application that enables Minecraft enthusiasts to build and edit maps. When and Where The Class is Offered: Week 1 - June 23-27, 2025 1:30PM-5:00PM Chatham Week 2 - [...] -
Minecraft Creative – The Builder, Ages 8-11
Students will be building their dream home, setting up their village, replicating a famous building like the White House and building the Golden Gate Bridge as a team. Students will explore effective communications skills through discussions and group exercises in Minecraft. When and Where The Class is Offered: Week 1 - June 23-27, 2025 9AM-12:30PM [...] -
Minecraft Obstacle Course, Ages 9-12
Minecraft parkour / obstacle course is one of the main types of adventure maps for players to experiment with. This class will explore the most popular parkour courses for inspiration in developing their own parkour courses. Much of the fun will come from sharing and playing in parkour courses developed by fellow classmates. When and [...] -
Minecraft Survival for Beginners, Ages 8-11
The class will cover the basics of Minecraft in survival mode, including basic controls, managing inventory, how to survive the first night, avoiding hunger, building, mining, farming, reaching the Nether and conquering the end. Imagine playing survival with all the players in the same room, working together for a common goal. The teacher will facilitate [...] -
Murder Mystery Creation, Ages 10-13
Students explore the literary genre of mystery fiction. To get the blood flowing, students will participate in two murder mystery games where they will role-play characters and attempt to figure out who murdered the victim and how it was done. Then, students will analyze three short mysteries. Finally, students plan their own mystery incorporating the [...] -
Pokemon-Go-Style Games, Ages 8-11
Each week the children play a series of team work challenges that, upon completion, allow them to collect pokemon figurines. Each game requires the children to work together (like in a Pokemon gym) to win the activity first and collect different designed pokemon characters that give the team extra “powers” to succeed in the next challenge. At the end, they may even have a “Pokewar” with their characters.
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Programming – Scratch Beginners, Ages 8-10
Scratch is a programming language developed by MIT Media Lab where kids can easily create and share their interactive stories, animation or simple games. Using simple drag-and-drop programming, students can select characters (called sprites) and control their actions and interactions. Students will create animation and games while learning the programming commands in Scratch. In the [...] -
Robotics with VEX IQ, Ages 9-11
VEX IQ is a snap-together robotics system to provide future engineers the opportunity to build and program robots. Students will learn about sensors, motors, gear ratios and object manipulation. Students advance to programming tele-operated robots which navigate through challenges. Some of the robots students will build and program include a bulldozer and forklifts. When and [...] -
Stop-Action Animation, Ages 8-10
In this fast paced class, students will create up to 5 stop-motion animated flix! Each day you’ll use a new style of stop-motion. And the last two days we'll even do Lego Animation! It's the ultimate arts and crafts class where students create, direct, and film their movies. No experience is necessary. When and Where [...]
