frederick.edu/Youth • 301.846.2661 9 KOC519 Touch, Type and Create AGES 10-13 Keyboarding skills are a lot more enjoyable when you’re practicing using fun projects. Learn how to type at a rate of 15 - 25 words per minute without making a lot of mistakes. Use Microsoft Office Word to become skilled at basic word processing, formatting, correcting errors, and proofreading your work. Practice cutting and pasting, changing fonts, underlining, using italics, and bolding. This interactive class will keep your fingers flying across your keyboard. KOC634 Minecraft: Architecture - Seven Wonders Of The World AGES 10-13 Combining the open world of Minecraft with the versatility of Legos, students will learn about various types of architectural wonder. From the Great Wall of China, to the Empire State Building, students will study about the architects who helped to create these masterpieces of craftsmanship, and then build their own. Students will begin by exploring building designs, and then use the computer to recreate them using Minecraft and Legos. Combining what they have learned with their imaginations, they will create their own architectural marvels, focusing on their own Wonder of the World. KOC642 How to Build a PC AGES 9-14 Building your own PC can be a cost effective and rewarding experience for anybody. In this hands-on class, students will disassemble and reassemble recycled PCs. They will learn to repair and troubleshoot issues as they build a PC from the ground up. Program installation is the next step and then it’s onto use the PC for gaming and other tasks. Computer components and tools will be provided, but students do not bring home a PC. KOC738 Minecraft: Coding AGES 8-11 Learn some basic coding as you get a virtual robot to do the digging in Minecraft! Take on challenges with your friends and learn about conditionals, functions, and coordinates in your own Minecraft world. KOC739 Minecraft: Collaborate AGES 8-11 & 10-13 Building in Minecraft is more fun when you are sitting right next to a kid who’s also in your virtual world. Work together with your friends to learn important social and collaborative skills as you build a real and virtual community. KOC767 Minecraft: Survival & Civilization AGES 8-11 & 10-13 Collect and assemble resources, build shelters, and gather food and provisions, as you create and develop a society that grows individual hovels to whole cities. Share resources with your friends to build a civilization that can withstand the challenges presented to the class. KOC216 Advanced Level Minecraft AGES 12-15 Would you like to challenge yourself in Minecraft and tackle something more complicated than a simple house or castle? How would you like to recreate Neuschwanstein Castle in 1:1 scale? No? Is that not difficult enough? How about creating the Titanic to scale? These and other ancient and modern wonders of the world will be examined and recreated in this advanced version of Minecraft Architecture. At the end of the week you will take a tour through, around, and inside the structures that have been recreated. Previous Minecraft experience is necessary to join this class. Computers & Technology LEGO®, Robotics & More KOC224 LEGO® Mindstorm Robotic Creations AGES 10-13 Join us as we set out for a week of exploring and building robots. Students will work in pairs to use LEGO® Mindstorms Robotics. Build a robot that will follow your commands, and modify and test various robot creations. Using a computer and an infrared transmitter, students will program their robots to meet various challenges we put in place. Bring along your enthusiasm and imagination - we’ll have a blast with robotics fun! KOC509 Video Game Design AGES 8-11, 9-14, 10-13 Do you love to play video games? Have you ever thought about designing your own? In this course, you will get a chance to create a game like the pros do. Learn how to design fun and efficient game levels as well as techniques for properly pacing a story line for a game. Design any type of game you want, from racing, action and puzzle games to old school side scrolling games. If playing games is not enough for you, then video game design just may be your calling! KOC743 LEGO ® SPIKE AGES 8-11 Learn to problem solve through complex challenges with your own ideas and intuitive coding as you create with LEGO® Education SPIKE kits. Whether you already know about coding with LEGO® kits or this is your first try, it’s going to be fun. You will work collaboratively through a variety of experiences that help build confidence and STEM knowledge about everyday problems and observations.
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