Creative Coding with Scratch (Advanced)

Each week students will: 

 1. Create a game of their own design 🎮
 2. Make new friends 👏
 3.  Complete exciting weekly challenges 🎯
 4. Share their games with their peers 👩‍💻🧑‍💻plex projects in game development and interactive storytelling! 

This class is designed for students who are comfortable with intermediate concepts and ready to tackle more challenging code and ambitious creations.

In each session, we’ll explore advanced coding concepts, like using custom blocks, complex conditionals, cloning, and advanced animations to make projects more dynamic and polished. 

Students will be guided by friendly and patient instructors who love empowering creativity and encouraging problem-solving. From building multi-level games to designing interactive narratives, students will be encouraged to push their coding skills further with supportive guidance and plenty of room for exploration.

This club is a welcoming, collaborative space where young developers can bring their ideas to life, gain confidence, and share their creative projects with friends who share their passion for coding!

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What We'll Cover:

Advanced Projects: Build complex games and interactive stories that challenge and inspire.

Skill Mastery: Dive into advanced concepts like custom blocks, cloning, and managing multiple sprites and scenes.

Collaborative Environment: Connect with classmates to brainstorm, problem-solve, and share project progress.

Creativity & Confidence: Every completed project will add to their confidence and creativity as coders.

Supportive Guidance: Our instructors provide patient, individualized feedback to foster growth and learning.

Why Join?
This Advanced Scratch Club is perfect for students who are excited to create bigger, more complex projects and who love coding in a collaborative, imaginative setting. Each project is a new adventure that adds to their coding toolkit and lets their creativity shine!

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Tech

For the best coding experience, mobile students are encouraged to have one device for coding and one device for Zoom.📱💻 Students who are coding on computers can use the same device for both if they know how to switch back and forth between the two application. 

Headsets are not necessary, but do provide a more focused experience and tend to block out more background noise. 🎧

Before Class

Students should ensure their devices are compatible with the Scratch 3.0 app or can access the Scratch website. Students should also be comfortable with the device they will be coding on as this class does not help with computer literacy skills. 

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Fall 2024

Week of 8/5	Drawing Game
Week of 8/12	Shop Game
Week of 8/19	Wall Dodger Coin Collecting Game
Week of 8/26	Flying Birds Game
Week of 9/2 Scrolling Background Advanced
Week of 9/9 Crab Jump Game
Week of 9/16	2-Player Racing Game
Week of 9/23	Whack-a-Mole
Week of 9/30 Two Player Soccer Game
Week of 10/7	Pop Ball
Week of 10/14 Platformer
Week of 10/21 Food Truck Frenzy Intermediate
Week of 10/28 Free Throw Shooter
Week of 11/4 Spin for a Prize!
Week of 11/11	Weather Creator
Week of 11/18 Balloon Blaster
Week of 11/25 Health Bars
Week of 12/2	Choose Your Own Adventure
Week of 12/9	Double Jump 
Week of 12/16 Subway Surfers