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About this event
Smart devices – phones, tablets – are being used all over. And Google’s Android-based devices are a great way to learn to develop apps. This course will get you creating apps and games for Android.
Course Highlights:
Introduction to the Android platform
Basics of AppInventor
Understanding AppInventor blocks
Creating views in AppInventor
Start to Build Games
Install Apps on your Smart Device
Please note you will be required to get your own Android smart device to test out the apps that you develop.
For ages 9 and over.
Available at St Lukes (HO), Botany, Stonefields and Albany centres. For more details please call on 09-8150825 or visit our website www.scratchpad.co.nz
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Organiser SCRATCHPAD
Organiser of Develop Games for Android- SCRATCHPAD Holiday Programme
Coding, Robotics and 3D Design for ages 5 – 18
SCRATCHPAD is a group of technology learning centres that teaches Coding, Robotics and 3D Design. Our approach is fun and intuitive and helps to reveal where your kids’ potential lies. Our programmes are for ages 5 – 18, are sure to catch their interest and develop life skills such as collaboration, problem-solving and creative thinking.
Secure your kid’s future and choose from after school or weekend sessions, holiday programmes, virtual classrooms, parent-child sessions, coding for mums etc.
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS
Our holiday programmes in Auckland include the courses Roll up your sleeves – Let us Code, Minecraft – Develop Your Own Mods, Code That Bot using Edison, Learn to Code BBC:Microbit, Lets learn Makey Makey, Develop websites using Python, Develop Games for Android, Introduction to Developing Websites, Let's Learn 3D Printing, Introduction to Graphic Design, Code That Bot – Program a Robot. Check out www.scratchpad.co.nz
AFTER SCHOOL AND WEEKEND PROGRAMMES
Discovery Programme:
* Suitable as an introduction to coding and robotics
* Learn how to use code to create interactive stories, and how to program games on mobile platforms
* Experiment with robotics
* Delve into 3D printing designs
Adventurer Programme:
* Suitable for those familiar with some coding
* Create and develop advanced games or apps
* Construct complex 3D models
* Progress to advanced robotics and programming
Accelerate Programme:
* Suitable for those considering programming as a school subject or wanting a career in IT
* Course content caters for NCEA, Cambridge and IB curriculum
* Kids will reach a point where they are ahead of their school grade
VISIT AN OPEN DAY
Come and see what a Technology Learning Centre is really like! Visit our free Open Day and experience hands-on demonstrations of coding, robotics and 3D designing.
Registration for Open Days is now open at www.scratchpad.co.nz/event call (09) 815 0825. If you can't make it to an Open Day, feel free to contact us we can schedule you in for a free trial session.
Step inside the world of SCRATCHPAD – limitless possibilities, and where the present becomes the future. See you all!
