The Boston Public Schools Office of Instructional and Information Technology is offering a free two-day training for students during vacation week. OIIT's TechBoston Unit in conjunction with Machine Science are hosting the two-day Scratch programming workshop. Students will learn how to design and write their own computer program or animation using Scratch, a graphical programming language developed at MIT.
During the training students will also:
- Learn how to make programs in Scratch
- Learn basic Scratch control structures
- Experiment with motion, sensing, looks, and sound
- Learn about using variables and operators
- Make drawing programs with the pen function
- Create original games and animations
- Share projects on the Scratch web site
- Download and “remix” projects from the web site
The free two-day workshop will be held on Tuesday, December 27 and Wednesday, December 28 from 8:30am-3:00pm at Madison Park High School. This opportunity is open to any BPS students in Grades 6-12. There are a limited number of seats, so sign up early!
For more information please visit http://bpsengineering.wordpress.com/student-resources/december-2011-bootcamp/. Online registration is required: http://tinyurl.com/december2011camp.
For further questions about the training, please contact:
Haruna Hosokawa
hhosokawa@techboston.org
To learn more about the Scratch programming language, please visit http://scratch.mit.edu/.
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