COURSE DURATION: 3 Months

Course Fee: 1999/- Per Month

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Extending from Google’s CS First themed curriculum, we introduce grades 2-5 students (7 years-old and up) to coding principles, all in project-based activities. Kids will systematically learn to program in Scratch, meanwhile explore storytelling techniques, build fun games, and craft interesting presentations. The projects will showcase their creativity with the aid of coding and digital designs.

Level#1: 

• Storytelling with Scratch (8 activities)

Students use code to tell fun and interactive stories. Storytelling emphasizes creativity by encouraging students to tell a unique story each day.

Activities list:

1. Dialogue and Storytelling: Learn about CS First and Scratch, then create a story in which two characters talk without using questions.
2. Animation: Tell a story in Scratch. In the story, a character walks through a scene describing what they see.
3. Dynamic Setting: Create a dynamic stormy day setting, complete with rain and lightning.
4. Premise: Build a story around one of four premises.
5. Characterization: One character narrates another character’s actions and thoughts.
6. Interactive Storytelling: Create a story in which the audience can make a decision.
7. Personal Narrative: Create a personal narrative based on one of three premises.
8. Your Innovation Story: Create an innovative product or idea, then use storytelling to pitch or sell it

Level#2:

• Sports with Scratch (8 activities)

Students use computer science to simulate extreme sports, make their own commercials, and create commentary for a sporting event.

Activities list:

1. Victory Celebration: Learn about CS First and Scratch, then create a victory

celebration in Scratch.

2. Sports Commentary: Create a dance, cheerleading, karate, or basketball performance competition. Then write the commentary for each of the competitions.
3. Net Sports: Create a fun net sport game with a bouncing ball and an athlete.
4. Fitness Gadget Commercial: Create a commercial around one of four fitness gadgets: wrist wear, eyewear, headwear, footwear.
5. All-Star Passing Drill: Build an all-star passing game where you try to aim at a moving receiver.
6. Batter Up: Build a home run derby style baseball game.
7. Extreme Sports: Build an extreme sports game in which a racer navigates an obstacle course for as long as possible.
8. Post-Game Interview: Build a project in which you get interviewed about what you programmed and learned in class

Level#3:

• Game Design with Scratch (8 activities)

Students learn basic video game coding concepts by making different types of games, including racing, platform, and launching.

Activities list:

1. Gaming Story: Learn about CS First and Scratch, then create a gaming story.
2. Racing Game: Create a two-player racing game in which users control movement with the keyboard.
3. Maze Game: Create a game in which the user guides a sprite through a maze.
4. 2-D Platform Game: Create and learn about platform games. Students program a player sprite to move and jump across platforms.
5. Escape Game: Create an escape game in which a player must avoid other sprites that move randomly.
6. Launcher Game: Create a launcher game using key press events, clones, and variables.

7. Quest Game: Learn how to use storytelling in video game design while building an RPG style Quest Game.
8. Cave Surfing Game: Create a game with a side scrolling background (like the popular game Flappy Bird)

Level#4:

• Code Your Own Projects (3+ activities)

Design and create your own Storytelling, Sports, and Game projects

Activities list:

1. Code Your Own Storytelling Project
2. Code Your Own Sports Project
3. Code Your Own Game Project

COURSE DURATION: 3 Months

Course Fee: 1999/- Per Month

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Scratch Plus: Game Design is centered around the various logic concepts used within many common games. Students will apply their basic knowledge of scratch as well as new important logic and computer science concepts through recreating existing and original games. Students can express their creativity through game design. The course focuses on the application of code in original game mechanics created by the students.

Overview:

This course builds off a basic understanding of coding through scratch and introduces more advanced concepts through the creations of popular games.

Level#1: 

Classic Games

• Unit 1: Maze Game

Description: We are making a course for the player to find their way to the exit. Students will imagine and create original obstacles and learn the basic concepts that all games follow

• Unit 2: Platformer

Description: We recreate a popular game genre and design our own levels and add in new game mechanics

• Unit 3: Tower Game

Description: We expand upon what we learned in the previous unit, and try our hand at making a game completely random and endless.

• Unit 4: Breakout

Description: Students dive deeper into more mathematically complex code to create physics inside our games to create the realistic bouncing of a ball

• Unit 5: Snake (If class moves quickly and there’s extra time)
• Description: This project explores different ways to use clones as well as tests the creativity of the students by creating new mechanics for the originally simple game, snake!

Level#2: 

Modern Games

• Unit 6: Top-down Shooter/ Horde Fighter

Description: Students create a simple top-down shooter but can imagine and code their own enemies, bosses, and weapons!

• Unit 7: Scrolling Platformer

Description: Students take their knowledge of variables to the next level to create a massive platformer level, stretching on a level infinite in size in all directions

• Unit 8: Online Multiplayer Board Game

Description: Students create their favorite board game and play it with their friends! Students include original game mechanics into the board game as well as learn the basics to play it with a friend across the cloud

• Unit 9: Online Multiplayer Fighting Game

Description: Taking the cloud variables to the next level, students create an action-packed fighting game where they can imagine and code original attacks and characters while also being able to play it with a friend online