Summer Camps – 2023 Future Designer

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:

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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!

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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

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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!

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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

Scratch - Read More

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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!

Register

Web Site Design & Development

June 26 - 30August 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
Technical Concepts: Rapid Web Dev Tools
  • 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.

Register

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

Register

Comic Creation

July 10 - 14Morning 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!

Register

Digital Animations with Scratch

July 10 - 14Morning 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

Scratch - Read More

Register

3D Design & Printing

July 17 - 21 | Morning with Javascript

June 26 - 30 | Morning with Advanced Web Design & Development

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!

Register

Advanced Web Design & Development

June 26 - 30June 26 | 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
Technical Concepts: Rapid Web Dev Tools
  • 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

Register

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