DESCRIPTION: For kids who dare to design and code their artistic vision, and immerse others in their imagination! Participants will explore a number of creative technologies such as Makey Makey, littleBits, MicroBit, p5.js, and DIY sensors, 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, or turn everything into a touchpad using Makey Makey. 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.

Recommended for ages 8-10

FORMAT: In Person at GIANT Chelsea Hub

DATES: Wednesdays at 3:30-5:30pm, from April. 27th to Jun. 22nd

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 + 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: $50 per session when you sign up for the full semester or $60 per individual session