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
Dustin Goetz
Instructor
Southeast Ohio Native! Ph.D. Candidate, U.C. Santa Barbra, Mechanical Engineering
Jen Bowman
Co-Facilitor
Director of Environmental Programs, Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service, Appalachian STEM Enrichment Academy
Elkan Kim
Co-Facilitor
Senior IT Project Manager and Computer Software Engineer, Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and
Public Service, Appalachian STEM Enrichment Academy
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