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Scratch Coding Camp: Tinkering with Choose Your Own Adventure Stories

Come tinker with us online! Tinkering is mindful messing about with tools and materials with the goals of finding out their possibilities and limitations. We can tinker with code to find out the possibilities and limitations of a digital environment.

About This Event

Code an interactive Choose Your Own Adventure story! Discover the importance of variables and conditional statements as you code a simple animated version of your story. Create a story which asks a viewer to make decisions for your character. If the viewer chooses to go left, then they could end up at the beach. If the viewer chooses to go right, then they could end up at the forest. How will the story end? It all depends on the choices made!

Example project: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/549681413

Recommended for ages 10-13.

This workshop takes place online via Zoom. You will receive an email with the meeting link and an introductory video on Friday, July 25.

Required for this workshop:

  • Watch the introductory video in the welcome email
  • Create a Scratch account – details will be included in the welcome email
  • A desktop or laptop with an internet connection
  • Ability to switch back and forth between a Zoom window and an internet browser

Alternatively, you can use two different devices. We recommend coding on a desktop or laptop and watching on the second device

Please note: Refunds will NOT be given if you are absent or cancel with less than 5 days notice.

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Survivors

Artist: Jeff Kulak

Jeff is a senior graphic designer at Science World. His illustration work has been published in the Walrus, The National Post, Reader’s Digest and Chickadee Magazine. He loves to make music, ride bikes, and spend time in the forest.

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Egg BB

Artist: Jeff Kulak

Jeff is a senior graphic designer at Science World. His illustration work has been published in the Walrus, The National Post, Reader’s Digest and Chickadee Magazine. He loves to make music, ride bikes, and spend time in the forest.

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Comet Crisp

Artist: Jeff Kulak

Jeff is a senior graphic designer at Science World. His illustration work has been published in the Walrus, The National Post, Reader’s Digest and Chickadee Magazine. He loves to make music, ride bikes, and spend time in the forest.

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T-Rex and Baby

Artist: Michelle Yong

Michelle is a designer with a focus on creating joyful digital experiences! She enjoys exploring the potential forms that an idea can express itself in and helping then take shape.

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Buddy the T-Rex

Artist: Michelle Yong

Michelle is a designer with a focus on creating joyful digital experiences! She enjoys exploring the potential forms that an idea can express itself in and helping then take shape.

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Geodessy

Artist: Michelle Yong

Michelle is a designer with a focus on creating joyful digital experiences! She enjoys exploring the potential forms that an idea can express itself in and helping then take shape.

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Science Buddies

Artist: Ty Dale

From Canada, Ty was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1993. From his chaotic workspace he draws in several different illustrative styles with thick outlines, bold colours and quirky-child like drawings. Ty distils the world around him into its basic geometry, prompting us to look at the mundane in a different way.

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Western Dinosaur

Artist: Ty Dale

From Canada, Ty was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1993. From his chaotic workspace he draws in several different illustrative styles with thick outlines, bold colours and quirky-child like drawings. Ty distils the world around him into its basic geometry, prompting us to look at the mundane in a different way.

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Time-Travel T-Rex

Artist: Ty Dale

From Canada, Ty was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1993. From his chaotic workspace he draws in several different illustrative styles with thick outlines, bold colours and quirky-child like drawings. Ty distils the world around him into its basic geometry, prompting us to look at the mundane in a different way.