Scratch Coding Club for Beginners - Make Video Games - On-Going, Multi-Week

Do your kids want to learn coding with Scratch?  Scratch 3.0 is a great platform to learn coding skills. .  Coding is an essential 21st century skill - It helps young people learn to think creatively.  In this course, your child will create their own video games. After class, they will have the skills to enhance the games to their likings. 

Students will learn how to create games and storyboards by using Scratch 3.0.  
Each week, we would focus on learning new coding knowledge. 

Week of 

<Feb 16> Monkey catching bananas
      Students will create a game where they control a monkey and try to catch falling 
      bananas avoiding   falling rocks.
<Feb 23>Project: Ghost Hunter
      Whack the ghost to score points. Based on the game Whack-a-Mole.
<Mar 2> Project: Breakout
      Based on the popular arcade game, Scratches attempt to break all the blocks. Game 
      resumes at a faster pace once all blocks are broken
<Mar 9>  Project: Dino Dash 
      Students will learn how to make their dinosaur jump and move to avoid the 
       oncoming rocks.
<Mar 16>  Project: Underwater Adventure
       Students will learn how to make their sprite follow the mouse through the water 
      and try to collect  stars while avoiding the    attacking octopus
<Mar 23> Project: Counting Picos
       Try to count the aliens as they ascend to the clouds. Harder than you think. A fun 
       family game.
<Mar 30> Project: Snake
      Create your own Snake game. Snake continues to grow as you eat more food.
<Apr 6> Project: Cash Grab
      Learners try to catch balls of different dollar amounts within 15 seconds
<Apr 13> Project: Space Invaders
      Learners will create a project to shoot down invaders from space. Learners will 
      shoot lasers to save us from the invaders  
<Apr 20> Project: Asteroid 
      Asteroids are flying at your  spaceship at different speeds. Blast them out of the air 
      and you must avoid being  hit or game over
<Apr 27> Project: Floppy Bird
      Scratchers will create a game similar to Flappy Bird. . Guide your bird through the 
      obstacles trying to get a better time.
<May 4> Project: Pacman
      Create your own PacMan based game in Scratch, complete with ghosts, food and 
      doughnuts for more lives

Students also need a Scratch account before the class is started.  
Please go to the below link to sign into an account:
https://scratch.mit.edu/