Free Summer Camp: Introduction to Coding for Game Development

This summer the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service is offering a 3-week Appalachian STEM Enrichment Academy (ASEA) online summer camp, Introduction to Coding for Game Development for high school students grades 9-11focusing on computational literacy via game design.

This program is intended to help promote computational literacy for students in Ohio’s Appalachian counties.

All 6 sessions meetings will be held online and students will be tasked with an extended learning activity between sessions. Limit of 12 students.

Students will:

• Learn computational thinking skills

• Play with coding syntax in two different coding languages: Scratch and Python

• Gain confidence in their independent-learning capabilities

All lessons will be posted FREE on the ASEA webpage upon the conclusion of the camp!

Email Jennifer Bowman with questions.

Schedule 

All sessions meet from 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. EDT

Week 1
June 5	Session 1: Build a Jumping Game using Scratch
	Scratch coding, conditional statements and loops
June 8	Session 2: Build a Platformer Game using Scratch
	Variables and objects
Week 2
June 12	Session 3: Build a Fighting Game using Scratch
	Variables and objects
June 15	Session 4: Build a Text-Based Game using Python
	Python file structure, syntax, commenting code
Week 3
June 19	Session 5: Build a Drawing Game using Python
	Python libraries (Pygame, etc.) and  game loop
June 22	Session 6: Build a Breakout Game using Python
	Object-Oriented Programming and game physics