Summer Camp 2023
At 4200 McKee Road, Charlotte, NC 28270
Future Designer
Future Designer Medley
Morning Camp Dates: June 26 - 30, July 10 - 14, August 7 - 11
Afternoon Camp Dates: July 3 - 7
As a Future Designer, our young students will experience age-appropriate mix of all camp activities to learn design skills and techniques. They will explore their creativity by building 3D Designs to print, paint Digital Art, create Comics, and even make animations on Scratch. Read below to see the different activities that will occur during our Future Designer weeks:
3D Design & Printing
Starting with the basics, students will learn skills of conceptualizing, designing, implementing creative works of 3D Art. They will then upload their creations for printing, the final product will be mailed to them.
Technical Concepts
- Design basic and complex shapes
- Combine and glue shapes together
- Efficient printing by distributing pieces vs building all at once
- Creating hollow shapes, slicing shapes and more!
Digital Art & NFTs
Campers will create amazing works of art including picturesque landscapes, floating logos, black and whites and so much more. Their creativity will get unbridled wings in this unique program combining design and technology all in one week of incredible learning and fun. The camp will teach them all the skills to be a digital designer with unlimited opportunity for application of individual creativity. Campers can also publish their artwork on a NFT marketplace (requires a crypto wallet - a 5 min process to set up, for which instructions will be sent to parents).
Sample Projects Include:
- 3D Logo Design
- Photo Editing: Black and White Conversion, Enhancements: Luminosity, Color, Filters
- Parametric Brushes, Curves, Layers
Comic Creation
Ever wonder how worlds come alive on paper? What the process of creating a story as a comic looks like? Then this is the perfect place for you! Students will use their creativity to learn storytelling and design skills to create comics. They will write, plan, draft and publish comics. Our students will watch their visions come to life!
Technical Concepts
- Build on storytelling and writing skills
- Plan and organize ideas to create drafts of panels and monologues
- Learn about layout, character, and setting design
- Create a visual story and more!
Digital Animations with Scratch
Campers create animations using MIT's Scratch platform and see creations come to life immediately in front of their eyes. Campers will build a myriad of different animations from Space pursuits to Wizard battles all within the Scratch Platform. There will be enough challenges to keep both beginner and advanced programmers engaged and learning.
Technical Concepts:- Conceptualizing an idea and implementing with Code
- Using a library of sprites and backgrounds
- Design custom characters
- Content customized by age group and skill
- Learn to identify errors, debug, and gain problem solving skills
3D Design & Printing
June 26 - 30 | August 7 - 11 | Morning with Web Site Design & Development
July 31 - August 4 | Afternoon with Digital Art NFT
Starting with the basics, students will learn skills of conceptualizing, designing, implementing creative works of 3D Art. They will then upload their creations for printing, the final product will be mailed to them.
Technical Concepts:- Design basic and complex shapes
- Combine and glue shapes together
- Efficient printing by distributing pieces vs building all at once
- Creating hollow shapes, slicing shapes and more!
Web Site Design & Development
June 26 - 30 | August 7 - 11 | Morning along with 3D Design & Printing
Students learn HTML and Rapid Development tools to build a fully functioning and live website with multi page navigation, embedded pictures, videos, links to internal and external pages etc. They will learn all the basic skills needed to be able to build any kind of website in the future with many practical uses (like organizing their study links, managing calendars and events to share with parents etc).
Technical Concepts: HTML- Text Formatting
- Background Colors
- Image integration
- Table creation and modification
- Linking to internal and external pages
- Design balance between images and text and Third's rule
- Animated text
- Visitor counter
- Embedded sites, images, videos
- Buttons and hyperlinks to internal and external pages
** Advanced students will branch out into learning and applying Cascading Style Sheets in their website.
Digital Art & NFTs
July 31 - August 4 | Afternoon with 3D Design & Printing
Campers will create amazing works of art including picturesque landscapes, floating logos, black and whites and so much more. Their creativity will get unbridled wings in this unique program combining design and technology all in one week of incredible learning and fun. The camp will teach them all the skills to be a digital designer with unlimited opportunity for application of individual creativity. Campers can also publish their artwork on a NFT marketplace (requires a crypto wallet - a 5 min process to set up, for which instructions will be sent to parents).
Sample Projects Include:- 3D Logo Design
- Photo Editing: Black and White Conversion, Enhancements: Luminosity, Color, Filters
- Parametric Brushes, Curves, Layers
Comic Creation
July 10 - 14 | Morning with Digital Animation
Ever wonder how worlds come alive on paper? What the process of creating a story as a comic looks like? Then this is the perfect place for you! Students will use their creativity to learn storytelling and design skills to create comics. They will write, plan, draft and publish comics. Our students will watch their visions come to life!
Technical Concepts:- Build on storytelling and writing skills
- Plan and organize ideas to create drafts of panels and monologues
- Learn about layout, character, and setting design
- Create a visual story and more!
Digital Animations with Scratch
July 10 - 14| Morning with Comic Creation
Campers create animations using MIT's Scratch platform and see creations come to life immediately in front of their eyes. Campers will build a myriad of different animations from Space pursuits to Wizard battles all within the Scratch Platform. There will be enough challenges to keep both beginner and advanced programmers engaged and learning.
Advanced: Our Advanced Scratch program boasts a highly engaging curriculum designed for experienced programmers. If you think Scratch is just simple block coding, think again. In the Advanced Animation Programming curriculum, your experienced programmer child will learn many sophisticated algorithms to build ultimate challenging animations like the Harry Potter Wizarding battle, the Wingardium Leviosa where you cast custom spells based on custom waves of the wand and much more. A great program to learn advanced Game Design logic in a very comfortable platform designed by MIT.
Technical Concepts:- Conceptualizing an idea and implementing with Code
- Simple to complex animations
- challenging concepts taught and implemented
- Using a library of sprites and background
- Design custom characters
- Learn about Simple, Repeat & Nested Loops, variables for data tracking, broadcast messaging, and define custom functions.
- Sequential and Parallel processing of code.
- Content customized by age group and skill
- Learn to identify errors, debug, and gain problem solving skills
3D Design & Printing
July 17 - 21 | Morning with Javascript
Starting with the basics, students will learn skills of conceptualizing, designing, implementing creative works of 3D Art. They will then upload their creations for printing, the final product will be mailed to them.
Technical Concepts
- Design basic and complex shapes
- Combine and glue shapes together
- Efficient printing by distributing pieces vs building all at once
- Creating hollow shapes, slicing shapes and more!
Digital Art & NFTs
July 31 - August 4 | Afternoon with 3D Design & Printing
Campers will create amazing works of art including picturesque landscapes, floating logos, black and whites and so much more. Their creativity will get unbridled wings in this unique program combining design and technology all in one week of incredible learning and fun. The camp will teach them all the skills to be a digital designer with unlimited opportunity for application of individual creativity. Campers can also publish their artwork on a NFT marketplace (requires a crypto wallet - a 5 min process to set up, for which instructions will be sent to parents).
Sample Projects Include:
- 3D Logo Design
- Photo Editing: Black and White Conversion, Enhancements: Luminosity, Color, Filters
- Parametric Brushes, Curves, Layers
Comic Creation
June 26 - 30 | Morning with Digital Animation
Ever wonder how worlds come alive on paper? What the process of creating a story as a comic looks like? Then this is the perfect place for you! Students will use their creativity to learn storytelling and design skills to create comics. They will write, plan, draft and publish comics. Our students will watch their visions come to life!
Technical Concepts:- Build on storytelling and writing skills
- Plan and organize ideas to create drafts of panels and monologues
- Learn about layout, character, and setting design
- Create a visual story and more!
Digital Animations with Scratch
June 26 - 30| Morning with Comic Creation
Campers create animations using MIT's Scratch platform and see creations come to life immediately in front of their eyes. Campers will build a myriad of different animations from Space pursuits to Wizard battles all within the Scratch Platform. There will be enough challenges to keep both beginner and advanced programmers engaged and learning.
Advanced: Our Advanced Scratch program boasts a highly engaging curriculum designed for experienced programmers. If you think Scratch is just simple block coding, think again. In the Advanced Animation Programming curriculum, your experienced programmer child will learn many sophisticated algorithms to build ultimate challenging animations like the Harry Potter Wizarding battle, the Wingardium Leviosa where you cast custom spells based on custom waves of the wand and much more. A great program to learn advanced Game Design logic in a very comfortable platform designed by MIT.
Technical Concepts:- Conceptualizing an idea and implementing with Code
- Simple to complex animations
- Challenging concepts taught and implemented
- Using a library of sprites and backgrounds
- Designing custom characters
- Learn about Simple, Repeat & Nested Loops, variables for data tracking, broadcast messaging, and define custom functions.
- Sequential and Parallel processing of code.
- Content customized by age group and skill
- Learn to identify errors, debug, and gain problem solving skills