2010 Summer Camp Schedule for Northern Denver/Boulder County
For camp schedules, click below:
BOULDER
LONGMONT
ARVADA
WESTMINSTER
For more information about classes, see our Summer Camp Page.
Please be sure to understand our Policies before registering.
Prices (except Longmont):
$285 per session (morning or afternoon)
$265 per session through April 15 at Friends School & Woodrow Wilson Academy
5% discount for multiple classes or children
$150 non-refundable deposit is required for each space reserved.
Full payment is due by May 18 and for all reservations made after May 18.
Click on a class name for a description
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Friend’s School
5465 Pennsylvania Avenue
Boulder, CO 80303-2853
Directions: Intersection of 55th and Pennsylvania Avenue
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Registration at the Friends School Website: Register
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| LONGMONT
Memorial Building
700 Longs Peak Ave
Longmont, CO 80501
Phone (303) 651-8404
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Register through Longmont Recreation Department (not available yet)
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June 14-18
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Garrison Street Center
9101 Ralston Road
Arvada, Colorado 80002
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Register through the Arvada Recreation Department (not available yet)
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June 21-25
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8:30-12:00
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Woodrow Wilson Academy
8300 West 94th Avenue
Westminster, CO 80021
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July 12-16
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Camp Program Descriptions
Roaring into Robots: What’s NeXT: Ages 8-14
This exciting class teaches you how to build and program the LEGO® Mindstorms® NXT robots, the coolest robot available. You will use your new skills to meet such challenges as reacting to intruders, moving objects to different locations, stinging an intruder with a robot tail, or beating your opponent at LEGO® Sumo, a BBB favorite.
You don’t need any experience with robotics or programming to begin your robotic adventure. Students who took our robotics After School Class can take this for a more solid foundation or move on to the Advanced Robot Challenges. All robot classes will be taught with the new LEGO® Mindstorms® NXT robot. The new robot system includes a new programming language, a new building system, and new sensors, including a sound sensor and ultrasonic sensor.
*Robots are for use by students in class only. The robots are expensive, and students will not be able to take them home.
Advanced Robot Challenges: Ages 8-14
We’ll challenge your engineering and programming skills with the LEGO® Mindstorms® NXT robot. Want to learn how to program a robot with a bluetooth cell phone? Build a walking bot? Use the new ultrasonic sensor to react to movement or the sound sensor to react to different sounds? Program the new servo motors for precise movement? The possibilities and challenges are endless.
You can work on individual challenges, challenge others, or pair up and work as a team. This course is for students who have experience with building and programming LEGO® Mindstorms® robots. Students should have a basic understanding of how to use sensors, motors and repeat blocks. This class provides new challenges each session and can be taken multiple times. All robot classes will be taught with the LEGO® Mindstorms® NXT robot. The new robot system includes a new programming language, a new building system, and new sensors, including a sound sensor and ultrasonic sensor.
*Robots are for use by students in class only. The robots are expensive, and students will not be able to take them home.
NXT Robotics Master Class: Ages 7-14
Are you a robotics master? Take this class and find out. This class is for those who have taken Roaring into Robots and Advanced Robot Challenges. You’ll be presented with challenges you may not think can be completed. You’ll work with, or compete against, other robotics masters. Can you build a 4-legged walker? Can you make a robot that climbs a wall? Can you make a gear shift with a remote control? Bring your thinking cap, this stuff is hard!
Game Creation: Ages 8-14
If you think playing computer games is fun, think what a blast learning to program your own games will be. Your imagination is the limit as you use GameMaker software to create maze, strategy, and a variety of other types of games. You’ll learn about creating sprites, objects, events and actions. Design a room, make it look the way you want, add objects and play your game. We’ll teach you how to display health, lives, score, splash screens and high score tables. Using drag and drop programming, you’ll be creating exciting, professional looking games you can play with your friends.
You can keep making games when you get home as the software is an inexpensive download from the Internet. If you think you’ve got a great idea for a game, you want to see what it would be like to be a game designer, or you just think computer games are fun, this class is for you. You must be experienced using a computer to take this class. If you’ve taken our Game Creation After School Class, this class goes into greater depth and reinforces previous learning.
Advanced GameMaker Techniques: Ages 8-14
This class is for those already familiar with GameMaker who want to take their game creation skills to the next level. We will examine gravity, platforms, bosses, levels, effects, GML (GameMaker’s built in programming language) and learn how to keep expanding our skills. You must have already taken a Game Creation class with us or in some way demonstrate your ability to keep up with this class as basic GameMaker skills will be assumed.
GameMaker Master Class: Ages 8-14
Become a GameMaker Master. This class is for those who know how to make games in GameMaker and want to work on their own projects with teacher assistance. You will learn advanced techniques, including how to write code, while working on your own game or working on the new Space Tek game. You must have taken at least one GameMaker class (such as Advanced GameMaker) and be comfortable making games on your own.
Exploring Bits, Bytes & Bots: Ages 8-14
This class is the perfect introduction to Bits, Bytes & Bots’ offerings. Students will learn how to make stop-motion animated movies, build and program LEGO® Mindstorms® robots and create their own computer game.
*Robots are for use by students in class only. The robots are expensive, and students will not be able to take them home.
Brick Films: Ages 8-14
A Brick film is an animated film that uses LEGO® characters and pieces to tell a story. If you’ve ever wanted to direct your own movies or like making up stories, then this camp is for you. Using digital cameras, Stop Motion Pro animation software, and video editing software, you’ll create multi-scene movies with transitions, titles, credits, sound effects and narration. Design your own set with backgrounds, characters, and scenery. The stories are up to your imagination.
This is a great class to take with friends. No experience is necessary and you can take this class as many times as you like. Students take home a DVD with their movies at the end of the week.
Bits, Bytes & Beyond: Ages 6-7
The computer camp for 6 – 7 year olds. You’ll build and play with real LEGO® Mindstorms robots and make animated movies that you can take home on CDs. This class meets for 3 hours rather than the 3 hours, 30 minutes of the other classes.
*Robots are for use by students in class only. The robots are expensive, and students will not be able to take them home.
LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies and does not sponsor, authorize or endorse Bits, Bytes & Bots, LLC.
