After-School

Using the professional 2D and 3D game creation tool called Unity, students in this course create a 3D game that is playable on Mac and PC computers. A Mac or PC (Windows) is required for this course.

Equipment needed: Windows or Mac computer needed for this course.

No prior experience needed.

This exciting PlanetBravo course has the students using the Minecraft game itself in any form (Bedrock on all play systems or Java on Windows) to dive deep into Redstone Engineering and Command Block Coding. It's a course for young students who want to bring their Minecraft experience to incorporate Engineering and Computer Science.

Equipment needed: Minecraft on any console or computer. Access to Zoom on any device: Mac, Windows, iPad, or Chromebooks.

No prior experience needed.

FOR BUDDING GAME DESIGNERS: This course is a full-fledged 3D Game Design course. Meant for students who have not used the Roblox Studio tool to create 3D games before, but even repeaters to expand or make new games are welcome. Roblox Studio is a developer's tool that mirrors the professional features found in all real-world game development programs. Roblox Studio is not the same thing as Roblox the game; "Studio" is a tool to make professional Roblox Games.

Equipment needed: Mac or Windows computers only. Sorry, no iPads or Chromebooks.

No prior experience needed.

Code Like a Girl continues to surprise our participants with tech-based projects and powerful discussions regarding women in technology. This season we enter the world of esports to explore a budding industry where women are sorely under-represented.

Equipment needed: Mac or Windows computers only. Sorry, no iPads or Chromebooks.

No prior experience needed.

The classic and most popular PlanetBravo summer course for almost a decade is finally an after-school course! Campers in this course reinvent Minecraft to make it their own. Instead of just playing Minecraft, they are editing the code and innerworkings of the game to modify (mod) how it works. Campers make their own recipes, blocks, items, potions, biomes, and so much more. This is one of the most creative hobbyist classes that PlanetBravo offers. Fun for newbies and also for veteran campers. There is always something new to create behind the scenes for Minecraft.

Equipment needed: Windows or Mac computer needed for this course.

No prior experience needed.

3D Animation has taken over all aspects of entertainment, and it's one of the most useful skills to know on a computer. In this course, students use their own Mac or PC to create short 3D animations in the powerful Blender animation program. This is a perfect course for artists, animation lovers, and anyone who loves video games.

Equipment needed: Mac or Windows only.

No prior experience needed.

Perfect for all who already have a basic understanding of Python code and want to take it to the next level, or those who are jumping in for the first time and want to code a graphical game. This course uses the Pygame library for Python where students make graphics-based games for computers. This course ends with a small set of visually fun video games that students hand-coded themselves.

Equipment needed: Windows or Mac Only, no Chromebooks.

No prior experience needed.

Perhaps the most important coding invention of our time, Scratch has been a staple of PlanetBravo's coding introduction courses since its introduction in 2007. The tool created by MIT continues to inspire creativity and develop coding skills in our youngest students. In this course, students will complete several next level coding games and projects that they can play and share long after the class ends.

Equipment needed: Chrome Web Browser. Mac, Windows, or Chromebooks allowed.

No prior experience needed.

This is the second time we have ever offered a supervised PLAY ONLY server for FUN! And the first time last season was AWESOME! That's right - this is a PlanetBravo-run Minecraft server where students claim and build on their own plot of land. They can collaborate, but by default, each plot of land cannot be altered by any other player (or 'griefed'). Anyone who has participated in our Network Game Time during camp season knows how much fun this server is. Come end the week in our Minecraft game room!

Equipment needed: Mac or Windows computers only. No Chromebooks or iPads.

No prior experience needed.

Using two of the coolest and free online tools for digital art (photo and illustration), this course has students making jaw-dropping graphics projects. Photopea is the new 'photoshop' online, and Piskel is a classic pixel art program that is tons of fun and used in professional projects regularly.

Equipment needed: Chrome Web Browser. Mac, Windows, or Chromebooks allowed.

Experience: None needed, but an on-screen personality is extremely helpful for success while recording.