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 9-11 focusing 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

Instructors and Co-facilitators

Sponsors

Funding supporting the ASEA platform and development of the lesson materials are in part from: AEP Fund of the Columbus Foundation, PORTSfuture Program funded by DOE EM PPPO, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, and Voinovich School Appalachian New Economy Partnership