PSLE 2020 Marking Week Holidays
ScratchThinker Beginner 4-Day Online Coding Camp
Online Virtual Classroom for Age 7 to 12
Daily Coding Classes Over 4 Days
Learn to Code with Daily Coding Exercises and Projects
Home Based Online Learning For Kids
Join our Proprietary Online Learning Platform and Virtual Classrooms
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. – Lao Tzu
Class Structure
4-Day Holiday Camp
1.5 hours per day
Daily Coding Projects
Small Class Size
Max. 6 Students
to 1 Instructor
(Min. 2 to start a class)
Location
Online Classroom
Learning Management System
& Virtual Classes
Equipment
Laptops with good wi-fi required.
Notes will be provided online.
Coding Camp
The 4-day holiday camp is a specially curated camp for the PSLE 2020 Marking Week Holidays. We want to help engage children in a challenging and fun way during this period of extended home-based learning.
On each day of the camp, students will be taught new programming concepts, and practice how to apply them in their daily coding challenges. Students will be grouped into classes with similar ages and capabilities. The class sizes are kept small at 6 students per class to ensure teachers can spend time helping individual students.
1. Proprietary Learning Management System
Student Web is Computhink’s proprietary system for our student’s learning needs, where students will log in every day, and find notes, exercises and short videos explaining concepts for the day.
2. Online Virtual Classroom
Virtual Classroom conducted over secure Zoom Web Conferences. Not to worry, we are technology experts and have put in a secure environment to ensure the online safety of your child.
3. Online Coding Platform
(www.scratch.mit.edu) this is where your child will have their own account, and where they will code their daily projects. Projects and accounts are stored online and accessible forever.
4. Online Assessments
Online Quizzes and Assignments – Students will be tested on understanding via online quizzes and assignments.
ScratchThinker Beginner
FOR AGES 7 to 12
4-Day Coding Camp
PSLE Marking Week
From Oct 19th to 22nd
4-Day Coding Camp
Dates: Oct 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd (Mon to Thu)
Choose One Time Slot:
Camp A: 9.00 am to 10.30 am
Camp B: 10.30 am to 12.00 pm
Camp C: 1.00 pm to 2.30 pm
– Last updated: 2020-Sept-01–
$240 (10% off!)
$216
* Early Bird Discount: Enjoy 10% off Camp Fees! Sign up by 18 Oct.
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Here’s what your child will experience in the 4-day camp:
Learn to program amazing games and animations with code.
Challenge themselves by coding one or more projects every day.
Learn about the exciting world of technology, computers and the internet.
Be guided by our experienced programmer trainer via our proprietary online learning platform.
Spark curiosity and creativity and let your child create anything they want!
Attending the ScratchThinker Camp will help your child to:
Experience what programming is, and how it is used professionally to solve problems and create solutions.
Encourage your child to want to learn how things work and develop a creator mindset.
Discover if your child has a talent for programming, and encourage them to specialise their talents in technology.
Inspire your child to want to learn more and create their own game and animation programs!
4-Day Camp Outline
The 4-day holiday camp is a specially curated camp for the PSLE 2020 Marking Week Holidays. We want to help engage children in a challenging and fun way during this period of extended home-based learning.
On each day of the camp, students will be taught new programming concepts, and practice how to apply them in their daily coding challenges. Students will be grouped into classes with similar ages and capabilities. The class sizes are kept small at 6 students per class to ensure teachers can spend time helping individual students.
Day 1 : Introduction to Basic Coding Concepts
Learn about the Scratch Online Coding Platform
Learn why Coding and Computational Thinking can be used
Learn about Code Sequences and step-by-step logic.
Day 2: Loops
Learn about Concept of Loops
How to repeat useful and similar code again and again
Repeat Loops and Forever Loops
Day 3: Conditional Logic
Learning about Boolean Values
Learning about Conditions and If-Else
Making decisions in code using Conditions
Day 4: Conditional Logic and Final Project
Combine Loops and Conditions to form iterative and selective logic
Brainstorming and Mind-Mapping Techniques
Learn to plan, design and code a final project
Let your child learn a skill or two this holidays!
Sign up early and enjoy great discounts off camp fees!
Not sure if this class is suitable for your child? Contact us via web-chat below, or WhatsApp us at +65 8858 6173
What Our Students Are Saying
“Recommended! Good teacher .. good school. Daughter enjoying it! Even at home she keeps talking about it and asking for the next bootcamp. Keep thanking for the idea of sending her there!”
“This is a very good Coding School, both my daughter and son learned their coding and building computer here, the Instructors very patient and knowledgeable when comes to computer stuffs. Both my kids love to attend the class there. I will definitely go again during school holiday.”
FAQ
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Is this coding camp conducted online?
Yes! This camp will be conducted fully online! Not to worry, we have been doing fully online classes since early 2020 and have a fully equipped Online Virtual Classroom for the best online learning experience for your child!
What do I need for the Virtual Classroom?
Your child will need a laptop/ computer with a strong wifi-connection. Please ensure that the web camera on the laptop is in good working condition.
Recommended system:
CPU: Intel Core i3-3210 3.2 GHz / AMD A8-7600 APU 3.1 GHz or equivalent,
RAM: 2GB
For parents with younger kids, you may need to stay with your child during the first lesson to help them operate the computer (e.g. where to click, and how to switch windows etc).
Does my child need to attend the same time slot for each day?
Yes, students will attend the same time slot for every day of the 4-day camp.
What is Scratch Programming?
Scratch is a programming language that is based on visual blocks. Kids can drag and drop code blocks and join them together to create and share interactive media such as stories, mini-games, and animations. Scratch is also an online community and kids can share their creation with people from all over the world.
As kids create with Scratch, they learn to think creatively, work collaboratively, and reason systematically, which are all essential 21st century skills they must inculcate. Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. See http://scratch.mit.edu.
What is Scratch good for?
Scratch is an ideal programming language for kids to create and share interactive media such as stories, games, and animations. Scratch helps kids express their creativity, work collaboratively and think systematically in order to solve problems in code.
Besides the ease of learning a programming language, Scratch is also an active online community of kids all around the world learning and creating programs. Projects created are shared publicly, and aspiring coders can browse other student’s projects, view the code behind and even modify other student’s code.
How does attending the Beginner Scratch Camp help in laying the foundation for my kid’s future?
Developments in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Connectivity, Big Data, and the Internet of Things, have raised the collective capabilities of these technologies and combined them into networked services that would soon render a number our current skill-sets obsolete. It used to be thought that computers and machines will only be able to replace jobs which are repetitive in nature, however, it is estimated that 40-60% of jobs will soon be replaceable by computers.
The ability to understand and write computer programmess will empower your kid with the skills to navigate, understand and perhaps create this computational future. In whichever profession that your kid may enter in the future, it is certain that programming and logical thinking skills would be a key part of it.
Is there any pre-requisites to joining this class?
No prior programming experience needed, this class is suitable for beginners.
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