During Florence 3 summer school’s Tech Boot Camp for Kids we have been using lots of technology tools. This year we added a NEW national feature. The Charleston, SC area was piloting Computer Science First Clubs. This is a Google project and we were included. Scratch has been a favorite of mine for years and we had included it in the curriculum last summer.
This curriculum is complete for 8 weeks of after-school clubs. Two subjects were ready in the summer: Music & Sound and Game Design. There are now 3 additional modules: Art, Fashion & Design, and Story Telling.
We used the Music & Sound module and did 2 modules a day on 4 days of Boot Camp.
For those who don’t know Scratch it is a product of MIT which allows very young people to put together computer code snippets and program Sprites to perform.
There is training available from the website for all interested in having their own CS First Club. These are designed for outside volunteers to be the 2 Gurus with one teacher/staff person to over-see the tech use during club time, but they are very flexible...and did I mention all needed supplies are FREE including headsets on loan. All is shipped to you. Enjoy!
