{"id":29557,"date":"2021-06-08T05:30:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T10:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=29557"},"modified":"2021-06-07T22:18:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T03:18:23","slug":"apsu-coding-camps-allow-middle-schoolers-to-learn-how-to-make-their-own-websites-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2021\/06\/08\/apsu-coding-camps-allow-middle-schoolers-to-learn-how-to-make-their-own-websites-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU coding camps allow Middle Schoolers to learn how to make their own Websites, Video Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Dozens of area middle schoolers already have taken advantage of this summer\u2019s Google-supported coding camps at Austin Peay State University (APSU).<\/p>\n

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Currently, the campers are in two camps \u2013 a morning camp where they learn how to build their own websites and an afternoon camp where they learn how to make their own video games.<\/p>\n

But Austin Peay State University also is offering upcoming camps for middle and high schoolers to learn how to program in the popular game \u201cMinecraft.\u201d And high schoolers also will get a chance to learn website building and video game making.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything has been really fun this week,\u201d said Dot Rojas, who will be an eighth-grader this fall. \u201cThey make it, I think intuitive is the best word to use, and everything has gone fairly smoothly. It breaks down in simple terms that I think really anyone could understand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rojas attended the video game-making camp last week, and her favorite part was learning C# programming and how to use Unity\u2019s game development platform. She said she wants to build video games or create the art that goes into the games.<\/p>\n

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Austin Peay State University coding camps. (APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the camp\u2019s instructors, Rashaad Washington, a computer science senior at Austin Peay, said he wished he had had a similar camp in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, when he was in middle school.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this was available at the time, I\u2019d definitely go to something like this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Washington\u2019s favorite part of the camp, like Rojas\u2019s, was with using Unity to build games.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s interesting to see how the kids like it because, although it\u2019s new to me, it\u2019s also new to them,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s just a cool experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Registration still open for upcoming camps<\/h3>\n
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The first week of the summer coding camps was last week at Austin Peay State University. (APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n

This summer, Austin Peay State University is offering 10 camps \u2013 in addition to the popular \u201cMake Your Own Website\u201d and \u201cMake Your Own Video Games\u201d camps. All camps are half-day and Monday-Friday.<\/p>\n

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The university also has added two new offerings to the summer coding camps \u2013 Minecraft camps for both middle (June 14th-18th) and high school students (June 28th-July 2nd) and girls-preferred camps (June 28th-July 2nd).<\/p>\n

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Austin Peay State University coding camps. (APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThe students in the Minecraft camps will get a free year of Minecraft (education edition) that they can take home with them,\u201d said Dr. James Church, associate professor in APSU\u2019s Department of Computer Science and Information Technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the camp is not going to be just playing Minecraft, it\u2019s going to be the basics to programming in Minecraft,\u201d Church stated.<\/p>\n

Registration is still open for these and other camps, and because of a $40,000 grant from Google, students who want to attend the camps can sign up at a steep discount. The first half of campers who sign up will get a 90% discount off the normal $99.00 price. All other campers will get a 60% discount.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit www.apsu.edu\/csci\/camp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Google grants fueling APSU initiatives<\/h3>\n

The summer coding camps are heavily funded by a competitive grant from Google. Austin Peay State University also recently received Google community grants to support a new makerspace at the APSU GIS Center<\/a> and Operation: STEM Success<\/a>, which offers free Algebra I and chemistry tutoring to local high school students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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