Ready, set, code!
Curious about how your favorite video games actually work? Looking to get started in robotics competitions, but don't know where to start? Game Design and Robotics Foundations is for you! This camp is an introduction to both the software and hardware sides of tech, where students spend the week learning to think like a game developer in the morning and an engineer in the afternoon. It is the perfect way to explore both before making a full semester commitment.
Morning Coding
Using Scratch, students design and build their own multi-level, player-controlled games completely from scratch over the course of the week. Along the way they explore core game design concepts including variables, cloning, broadcasting, sensing, and physics — the same building blocks used in real game development. Each day also includes dedicated open-ended game design time where students apply what they just learned directly to their own custom project. By the end of the week, every student has a game they designed, built, and can call their own.
Afternoon Robotics
In the afternoon, students step away from the screen and into the world of hardware. Using VEX IQ, students build a fully functional robot from the ground up, learn to drive and control it with a joystick, program it to move autonomously without touching the controller, explore how sensors allow a robot to detect and respond to its environment, and compete in camp competitions that put everything they have learned to the test.
The Love to Code Academy Difference
At Love to Code Academy, we believe the best learning happens when students are challenged, supported, and in an environment where who they are becoming matters just as much as what they are building. That is why every session is led directly by our in-house software developers and mechanical engineers, bringing real-world professional experience into the room and giving students an authentic look at what a career in tech actually looks like.
Unlike other coding programs that focus on only individual work, Game Design and Robotics Foundations is grounded in a collaborative first environment. We work together, code together, and help each other out. No coder left behind.
Built into each day are character connection activities and community breaks where students step away from their screens, take on building challenges, collaborate, and get to know the coders around them.
At Love to Code Academy, we grow kids, not just coders. We are not just building game developers and engineers this week. We are building confident, persistent, and collaborative students who know how to show up, work hard, and lift the people around them.