DESCRIPTION: For kids who dare to design and code their creative vision and immerse others in their imagination! Participants will explore a number of creative technologies such as Makey Makey, littleBits, MicroBit, and DIY sensors as well as coding platform such as p5.js and 3D CoSpaces and design immersive experiences for themselves and others to interact with. We’ll design and code for all of our senses - visual, touch, taste, smell, and body, interact, revise, and wow each other. Depending on each participant’s level of expertise and interests, they may choose to focus on a certain element of the immersive world - a participant may decide to focus on drawing and painting, another participant may decide to design sound tracks, code interactive elements in p5.js (an open-source JavaScript library for creative coding that allows you to use programming as an artistic medium), code interactive littleBits sensors using block based coding, build their own sensors, turn everything into a touchpad using Makey Makey, design and code their VR scenes and superimpose into the real world through AR, Participants learn fundamentals in interactive design, block-based and text-based coding, and create colorful, dynamic, and engaging visuals and sounds for design, architecture, fashion, gaming — anything they can imagine. This workshop series is a wonderful blend of coding, artistic vision, and presentation skills.
Kids will be picked up at dismissal time. From 3 to 3:30 they will engage in free play/making time while waiting for all of the participants to arrive.
Recommended for ages 8-10
FORMAT: In Person at PS 33
DATES: Wednesdays at 3:00-5:30pm, from Jan. 4th to Mar. 29th (skipping 2/22 for public school holiday)
LEARN ABOUT
Block Based Coding and/or JavaScript foundation (text based coding) - depending on each participant’s level of expertise
Creative technologies, sensors, and microcontrollers + CoSpaces and p5.js’s full range of functionality from simple 2D sketches to generative visualizations using interactive animations and multimedia elements (for advanced participants)
Digital art, painting, and designing immersive worlds
PRICE: $48 per session when you sign up for the full semester or $54.40 per individual session
