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Scratch Beginners Course for Kids (10 – 12)

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Develop your Child’s Logical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills with Coding

Designed specifically for children (age 10-12) who are completely new to programming / coding, this program introduces our children to a lifelong skill that is important for the future.

Children will be using Scratch, a graphics based computer coding language developed by Mitchel Resnick, LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research and head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT media labs.

At the end of the course, students feel empowered to create, design and develop computational media which they enjoy in their daily lives. They start their journey to build the next blockbuster game (Eg. Angry Birds or Flappy Bird) here.

Most importantly, this programme strengthens their logical and problem solving skills which are useful in many aspects of life, be it immediately in their studies (e.g. Mathematics Problem Sums, Science, etc) or in the future.

Coding for Kids (Scratch:Beginner) Course Outline

Introduction to Scratch

Explore scratch and familiarise with interface.
Basic step by step animation (loops, events and parallelism techniques)

Animation

Hands on experience and application of techniques.
Making your animation come alive (music, colour, costumes)

Telling stories

Creating a story board using scratch
Create your own characters, coordinate interactions
Manage timing and broadcasting of these events

Gaming time

Learn how to build interactive games
Add your own score count and games.
Tackle 9 scratch programming puzzles
Learn to debug your game

Project showcase

Work on your game/app/animation concept
Use the techniques you have learnt over the past 4 days
Show and tell

Who is this coding class for?

Children 10-12 years old
No prior knowledge required
Laptop provided (one per child)
Maximum tutor : students ratio of 1 : 8

Schedule

Upp Bukit Timah

20 Mar – 24 Mar (Mon – Fri): 9:00AM – 12:30PM

Raffles Town Club

13 Mar – 17 Mar (Mon – Fri): 2:00PM – 530PM

NSRCC (Changi)

Beginner I Only! 13 Mar – 14 Mar (Mon – Tues): 9:30AM – 5:00PM
Beginner II Only! 15 Mar – 16 Mar (Wed – Thu): 9:30AM – 5:00PM

Term Classes/5-Day Workshops

Class Structure (Term)

Course Duration: Total 20 hours
Number of lessons: 10
Hours per lesson: 2

Class Structure (Holiday Intensive)

Course Duration: Total 17.5 hours
Number of lessons: 5
Hours per lesson: 3.5

2 Full-Day Camps (Beginner I or II only)

Class Structure

A Special Full Day Camp just for 2 days
Lessons starts from 9.30am and ends at 5.00pm
1:8 Tutor to Student Ratio

Daily Class Schedule

9.30 am – 11.30 am – Class
11.30 am – 1.00 pm – Lunch
1.00 pm – 3.00 pm – Class
3.00 pm – 3.30 pm – Tea Break
3.30 pm – 5.30 pm – Class

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Age

10–12

Price

5-Day Workshops: 695 SGD
Earlybird / 5-Day Workshops: 645 SGD (10 Days prior to course commencement)
2 Full-Day Camp: 445 SGD
Earlybird / 2 Full-Day Camp: 395 SGD (10 Days prior to course commencement)