"I'm not a techy person, my mum signed me up. I love that here you combine creativity with technology. I really want to keep learning."
Alba, Young Minecraft Enthusiast
Minecraft Maker - Week-long
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Minecraft Maker – Week-long
Become a part of the Maker Movement using Minecraft! You will be thrown into an intensive mix of creativity, gaming and engineering.
Course highlights
Minecraft is a learning environment
Learn to customise your Minecraft environment by learning the best shortcuts and understanding the Redstone programming and electronics platform
Digital and physical design
Students learn the fundamentals of 2D and 3D design and modelling to turbocharge the creation of their worlds. Learn about electronics inside the Minecraft world.
Turn play into serious fun
Harness your enthusiasm for Minecraft into a creative superpower as you learn new design skills and tools.
Featured FAQ
Is Minecraft educational?
Minecraft itself teaches many skills that can be gained from gaming such as resource management, co-ordination, strategy etc. However, this course uses tools outside of Minecraft for teaching and the game …
Minecraft itself teaches many skills that can be gained from gaming such as resource management, co-ordination, strategy etc. However, this course uses tools outside of Minecraft for teaching and the game is used to help visualise the results of their work. This includes doing 3D CAD design to terraform maps and build large scale structures, using electronics both virtual and physical and much more.
Student work
Gallery of some past students work from this course
Course Overview
Become a part of the Maker Movement by using Minecraft! In this course, you will make your own world, blocks and structures. As a Minecraft Maker with Fire Tech, you will be thrown into an intensive mix of creativity, gaming and engineering. Each student finishes with an impressive command of important computing concepts, practical making skills, and an enhanced understanding of how to expand and enjoy their Minecraft universe.
This is an engaging course for 9-12-year-olds that will get them building, designing, coding, and making, all using the Minecraft “sandbox”.
Minecraft is an incredibly popular block-building game, the second most-downloaded game of all time. Through this course, students can gain experience in core computing concepts such as Computer-Aided Design, conditions, loops, and iteration.
We have explored more of the educational and computing benefits of Minecraft in our blog post on The Benefits of Learning with Minecraft.
This is an online course taught live by an expert tutor who is fully DBS-checked. You will join a small group of other young learners online, working together and making lots of progress in fun and interactive sessions. All classes are monitored and recorded for safety.
You will need a laptop or desktop computer capable of running Minecraft Java Edition. As long as the computer is able to run Minecraft it should be able to run the other tools too. The tools in this course will work with the Minecraft Java Edition only, this can be on Mac OS or Windows, they will not work with the Windows 10 Edition, Pocket Edition, Pi Edition or the various Console versions.
You will also need a license for Minecraft Java Edition which can be bought from here: Minecraft Java Edition
This course is also available in part-time formats.
Course ratings
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How much did you enjoy your course? Score: 4.8/5 |
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How would you compare your experience at Fire Tech to school? Score: 4.5/5 |
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How likely are you to create with technology for fun, using the skills you learned? Score: 4.5/5 |
Source: Post-course feedback, 40 ratings, Apr-Jun 2020
What your child will learn
- Enhanced understanding of STEM fields such as coding, game design and computational thinking
- Modify the 3D world using tools such as WorldPainter
- Customise blocks using skins, attributes and behaviours
- Create in-game electronics circuits with Redstone
- Build and import complex structures using third-party world editing tools
Typical daily schedule
All Day
Part-day
1 hour
Lesson time
15 minutes
Break
1 hour
Lesson time
1 hour
Lunch
45 minutes
Lesson time
15 minutes
Break
45 minutes
Lesson and finish
45 minutes
Lesson time
5 minutes
Break
40 minutes
Lesson and finish
Meet Sean
Sean studies Design Engineering at Imperial College London but you'll often find him buzzing around camp teaching our Video Game Design courses. He loves seeing campers push through challenges and publish a game to show their friends and family.
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