More than 70 students are participating this week in the EVSC’s second Creativity Camp, a week-long technology camp for students entering third through sixth grades. The camp, which includes students from all around the Evansville area, is taking place at Scott Elementary School.
The camp, which is sponsored by Scott’s PTA, includes five, week-long tracks: Photography, iPad Video, 3D Printing, Minecraft and Coding. Each track is taught by an EVSC licensed teacher and gives students a hands-on and up-close look at different technology programs and software. In each track, students will work on projects that they will complete by the end of the week.
More information on each track can be found below.
Beginning Photography, Room 34: Students will learn basics of digital photography and photo editing using Apple iPads and Adobe Photoshop. We will experiment with composition and various lighting techniques. Student will learn basics in photo editing using selection techniques/masks and adjustment layers. Students will create and bring home a digital portfolio of their work.
iPad Video: Lights, Camera, iPad!, Room 37:Â Students will learn to shoot video and edit on the iPad. Emphasis will be placed on the tools to create and edit video on the iPad and the week will culminate with a video creation produced and edited by the participating students.
| 3D Printing and Engineering, Room 36: Students will get the opportunity to work through the engineering design process while working on their problem solving skills. Students will be presented with real world problems and create ideas to solve them. They will then use computers to design solutions. Did we mention that they will be able to print them on our state of the art 3D printer? Not only that, but students will have access to 3D scanning, which can allow them to scan and print themselves.
Minecraft Mania, Room 33: In their quest to become Minecraft Masters, students will become problem solvers and leaders! Students will be asked to develop their leadership skills throughout our game-playing, using role-playing, goal setting, problem solving techniques and more. Activities will also include curricular connections, including language arts and math. |
Coding is Cool, Room 40: In this class students will learn the basics of computer coding. We will starting with the common points of all computer coding and then progress into the basics of HTML and how to create a simple website. Following this students will explore coding for robotics application – both drag and drop and Javascript. Students will test their robotics code using Sphero robotic balls. At the end of the week students will have a better understanding of the language programmers use to “talk†to computers. They will also have coded a simple website as well as controlled a robot with code.
