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July 21-25, 2014 -Middle School (Girls Only)

Summer Camp 2014 Application

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Art, Music and Games with Scratch and AppInventor (NCWIT)


All participants must complete the NCWIT Media Waiver

Art, Music, and Games with Scratch and App Inventor



Come learn how to create music, art, and games with Scratch and App Inventor. Both Scratch and App Inventor are free and allow you to drag blocks together to make things move, make music, make art, and make simple games.

Monday
Morning:
Pre Survey
Do a getting to know you game like Kinesthic Learning Activity: boolean game
Show the Xylophone app and how to downloaded it to the phone. See http://www.appinventor.org/Xylophone2. Show how the program looks and talk through what the blocks are doing.
Have the girls do the Talk to Me app at http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ai2/beginner-videos.html

Afternoon:
Ask the girls what their favorite apps are. Ask specifically about how the user interface works on the apps. Do a user interface design activity http://csunplugged.org/human-interface-design
Have the girls do Digital Doodle or the Ball Bounce at http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ai2/beginner-videos.html (the pdfs are at the bottom of the window).

Tuesday
Morning:
Do flowchart hopscoth http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt/1356
Introduce Scratch - show http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/10128067/ and http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/11806234/
Have kids try the Step-by-Step intro at http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tip_bar=getStarted. If they finish quickly they can try the "Holiday Card Tutorial" also in tips.
Give kids time to create their own cards or projects that are about them.

Afternoon:
Do green screen pictures.
Let kids do Interactive art http://ice-web.cc.gatech.edu/dl/?q=node/772 or Flappy Bird http://ice-web.cc.gatech.edu/dl/?q=node/981. Have them show off what they have done.

Wednesday
Morning:
Campus Scavenger Photo Hunt
Have students do the fortune teller http://ice-web.cc.gatech.edu/dl/?q=node/882 or Magic 8 Ball http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ai2/magic-8-ball.html

Afternoon:
Recreation

Thursday
Morning:
Have students to the Get the gold app http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ai2/get-gold.html or MoleMash http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ai2/molemash.html.
If they would rather do Scratch try Mad Lib at http://www.ice-web.cc.gatech.edu/dl/?q=node/787

Afternoon:
Show the girls http://www.dotdiva.org/profiles/macherie.html and http://www.dotdiva.org/profiles/angelica.html Ask girls to write a page about what they are doing in the future in computing (driverless cars, Google glass, robots, etc) and how they got there.
Work on Showcase Projects

Friday
Morning:
Work on Showcase Projects

Afternoon:
Post Survey - from NCWIT http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/AspireITProgPart-R2
Family Showcase

Instructor: Tiffany Hsieh
Materials: Laptops, mice, chargers, Android phones, Google accounts, notecards, green screen, CS Unplugged, tape, dice, scavenger hunt, blank paper
Workers: Madison, Karima
Mornings: Megan

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