Weekend Computer Workshops

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The Eli Whitney Museum is offering workshops for young programmers and modelers. First timers will enjoy learning logic with popular game characters through Code.org's new beginners' courses. Or develop your skills with Scratch, MIT's drag-and-drop language which gives you the freedom to create your own games and animations. Intermediate coders will learn or continue with new modules in Code Combat and those interested in 3D modeling and animating will learn the language of Blender, a powerful tool.

Code.org and Scratch is being offered to 9 – 12 year olds
Code Combat and Blender is for 11 year old and up.

If you try to register and the link is no longer available for a particular class, please call the Museum to be put on a waiting list.

Code.org /Scratch (Beginning or Continuing Workshop)

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Code.org has expanded their "Hour of Code" lessons with new courses. Learn coding concepts by using drag-and-drop logic blocks to guide popular characters through a series of challenging puzzles. You will help characters from "Angry Birds", "Plants vs. Zombies," "Flappy Bird" and Disney's "Frozen" to draw pictures, collect flowers, farm fields, and navigate mazes.

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Code Combat / Python Fall 2015

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If you want to learn to program, you don't just need lessons. You need to write a lot of code and really enjoy doing it. That's what programming is about. It's fun (not fun like 'yay I got a badge' but fun like 'wait mom, I just have to finish building this level!'. That's why CodeCombat is a multiplayer game, not just a 'gameified' lesson course.

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Blender – 3D Modeling and Animation

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Learn the basics of Blender, a professional, open source 3D modeling and animation toolkit. Blender is used to create animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, interactive 3D applications and video games. This program contains numerous modeling features as well as an integrated game and physics engine.

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