We are compiling and occasionally updating a running list of resources and ideas for what to do with the kids during the stay at home directives. Have something cool to add? Leave it in the comments below.
Read More »Fun Things For Kids to Do During the PandemicJune 2020 Update: Sadly, due to the continued COVID outbreak and ongoing social distancing guidelines which will be with us for the foreseeable future, we… Read More »Covid-19 Notice
This January, MIT had released their most recent iteration of Scratch 3.0. For those without young children, Scratch is a hugely successful platform for teaching children about computer science while encouraging creative play and exploration. Projects created can vary from animations to games and much more. The platform is web-based and comes packed full of assets for characters, background artwork, and music. You are also able to upload your own images and sounds with up to 50 MB allocated per project. Interaction with characters (called Sprites) occurs by dragging and dropping blocks of code in the proper sequence on the coding stage.
We’ve been having some one-off holiday camps this September and spend one of the days playing around with creating Bitsy games. Bitsy is… Read More »Mini Games with Bitsy
Check out the weird, wonderful interactive stories designed and written by our very own Zero Day Campers.
Parser Based IF The Wizard Sniffer http://bit.ly/wiz-sniff [details] Zork I [play] [details] The Hithchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy http://bit.ly/play-hhgg [details] Superluminal Vagrant Twin [play] [details]… Read More »Interactive Fiction
Zero Day Camp is happy to announce the location of our new store front located at:
This spring session we tried something a little different and hands on. Campers were on a mission to build their dream home and automate it using the Microbit. The focus was on providing a project based and camper led experience. Working in pairs, basic programming and physical computing concepts were introduced such as creating LED circuits, programming sounds for the doorbell, using a servo to make a fan and introduction to sensors as burglar alarms. The Microbit and blocky based programming IDE (pxt.microbit.org) served as a user-friendly platform for exploration.
Read More »Creating an Automated House with the MicrobitI've been using the excellent Minecraft "mod" ComputerCraft a bit to teach some programming inside of Minecraft and wanted to make sure that anyone who wanted to set this up at home could do just that. Read More »Setting up ComputerCraft in Minecraft – installing Minecraft “mods” for beginners.
We are happy to kick off another session of Zero Day Camp at PS 9. This session we will continue breaking up into smaller groups and pursuing student interests. Check out some of the exciting projects we are up to!Read More »Spring 2017 Kickoff
