4th - 12th

Students in grades 4 - 6 will learn to create their own video games using MIT's Scratch, while Junior High and High School students will transition to JavaScript, C# and the Unity professional development environment. Students will learn to break large tasks into smaller problems that can then be solved with code. An emphasis will be placed on strategies for solving common problems and building complex projects from these solutions.

Concepts such as animation, collision detection and artificial intelligence will be introduced. Students will employ coding logic such as local and global variables, conditionals, sensing and broadcasts, and object-oriented programming.

Practical applications of math skills such as angles & degrees, greater than & less than, decimals, multiplying by negative numbers, radius and diameter, and coordinate systems will be demonstrated.

2nd - 6th

Students will learn to program robots to complete a series of increasingly complex challenges in our Mission to Mars and annual robotics competition. They will develop problem-solving and algorithmic thinking skills as they utilize programming logic such as loops, events and conditionals.

Students will form teams with defined roles, and an emphasis will be placed on role-play, communication and conflict resolution strategies needed to become an effective team in both the classroom and workplace.

TK - 1st

Students will develop critical thinking skills such as sequencing, prediction and revision using a variety of resources such as kinesthetic activities, iPad coding apps and robots. Student will then create animated stories in code using the free iPad app, Scratch Jr.

By placing an emphasis on creative coding and a blockly language, students will develop a visual coding vocabulary that they will build on in subsequent years.