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Science Quest Summer Camp at the Capitol Park Museum

Science Quest Summer Camp at the Capitol Park Museum About the class:   Introduce students to computer science and programming using Scratch. Developed by MIT Media Lab, Scratch is a free, easy-to-use programming tool to create stories, games, art, music, and animations. Students simply imagine, program, and share. Scratch projects are a great way to address 21st century information and technology skills while promoting creativity, problem-solving, reasoning, and collaboration. This popular and practical tool has applications across grade levels and content areas.  Some of the objectives covered:    Understand the difficulty of translating real problems into programs. Realize the need for formal programming structures like loops and functions Introduce Scratch resources and examples Hands-on: Explore and evaluate Scratch examples Introduce Structure and Logic of Scratch Hands-on: Create a basic project in Scratch In