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Learn through Play w/ Press Start Academy! March 2020 Online Workshops

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Build Your Own Adventure Game!

Game development, programming, computational thinking
March 16-20, 23-27, 30-April 3 (M-F)
3:30 – 4:30 pm
Ages 10-14
HKD3,088/student

Design and build your first choose-your-own-adventure game!

Over the course of 15 sessions, you will learn HTML, CSS and JavaScript, practice the fundamentals of video game development and use techniques like flowcharting to plan your game.

A special collaboration with Hong Kong-based ed-tech startup BSD Academy, this program will also cultivate computational thinking, collaboration and presentation skills as you will prepare to showcase and present your final product to your peers by the end of the course!

Expect hands-on exercises and individual activities as you begin your game development journey. Prior coding experience not necessary!

Save the World w/ the Food Heroes!

Health, hygiene, nutrition, sustainability
March 16, 18, 20, 23, 25, 27 (M/W/F)
9:00 – 10:30 am
Ages 6-8
HKD1,888/student

Join the Food Heroes on their quest to save the world!

In this six-class online series, you will join the Food Heroes to learn about and tackle real-world challenges in health, hygiene, nutrition and sustainability. Discover how all of these topics are interconnected and earn points to achieve Food Hero status yourself!

In each class, you will be accompanying the Food Heroes on an exciting quest exploring a new topic. Classes will include story time, conversation, active learning, movement and extension activities to ensure that your learning journey will be as colorful and challenging as the Food Heroes’ missions!

Food Heroes is an award-winning game-based curriculum on food sustainability and health developed by international NGO JUCCCE (the Joint US-China Cooperation on Clean Energy). Press Start Academy is delighted to invite Meredith Bosco, one of the Food Heroes curriculum developers, to teach this unique collaboration course.

Legends of Tomorrow: A Superhero Story

Creative storytelling, strategic thinking, collaboration
March 16, 19, 23, 26, 30, April 2 (M/Th)
5 – 6:30 pm
Ages 11-14
HKD1,888/student

Calling all heroes – Century City needs you! Legions of evildoers are plotting to cause chaos and wreak havoc across the city, and only a team of brave champions can stop them once and for all!

In Legends of Tomorrow, you will create your own iconic superhero and join forces with other legendary characters to battle against the forces of evil and save the day. Super strength? Lightning speed? Power armor? Your superpowers – and how you team up to defeat the villains – are limited only by your imagination.

Our nine-hour program is inspired by superhero franchises and universes such as Marvel’s Avengers and DC Comics’ Justice League. It is based on OVA, a narrative-driven role-playing game system, and is designed to cultivate skills in creative storytelling, strategic thinking, collaborative decision-making, empathy and healthy group interaction and communication skills.

PROTO-type Your Own Business

Entrepreneurship, business strategy, design thinking
March 18, 25, April 1 (W)
4:30 – 6:30 pm
Ages 11-14
HKD1,388/student

Have you thought about running your own business one day? Get a small taste of the life and journey of an entrepreneur in this four-class online workshop based on the card game Proto!

Developed in conjunction with innovation consultancy Epiphany & Labs, this program will put you in the hotseat together with a group of enterprising young entrepreneurs as you learn about business strategy, practice design thinking and even tackle potential business challenges along the way. You’ll finish with a well-developed business idea and a plan to build it out!

Proto is an innovation storytelling card game co-developed by Let’s Make Great! and Press Start Hong Kong and is the cornerstone of the corporate design thinking programs designed by our sister company Epiphany & Labs.