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Minecraft Maker - On Campus
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Minecraft Maker – On Campus
Become a part of the Maker Movement by using Minecraft! You will be thrown into an intensive mix of creativity, gaming and engineering.
Course highlights
Minecraft is a learning environment
This class lets you customise your Minecraft environment by learning shortcuts to designing maps for your worlds, learning shortcuts to building up your environments, and understanding the Redstone programming and electronics platform inside the game.
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 are able to learn new design skills and tools. Take your super cool worlds home and share them with your friends. Imagine it and build it!
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 course is also available in part-time and online formats.
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
On Campus 8-12
1.5 hours
Kick off
20 minutes
Break
1.5 hours
Lesson time
45 minutes
Lunch
2 hours
Lesson time
20 minutes
Break
1 hour
Lesson time
15 minutes
Plenaries 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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