Coding Excellence - Boston

We offer a variety of onsite activities including sports, arts and crafts and team games. Our activities provide opportunities for students to have fun and make international friends.

Students are housed in brand new, modern, air-conditioned dormitory buildings with single en-suite bedrooms on the boarding school campus. Common rooms, laundry facilities and Wi-Fi internet access are available.

Meals

3 Meals per day

Pocket Money

Please ensure you have money available for arrival and the first two weeks. We suggest around $250.

Excursions allow students to really get to know the USA. We use destinations such as Downtown Boston as a classroom,where students will find historic and cultural information through guided walking tours and visits to museums and other places of interest.

Shared airport transfer from/to Boston Logan Airport is inclusive in the course price

This course will combine lessons, lectures and workshops to engage and inspire students who are interested in coding and modern technology. Lectures introduce theory while lessons allow students to look at web design, basic Java skills and 2D arrays. During workshops students will explore design software, real-world programming and coding practice culminating in creating their own video game. Visits to local universities including the world-renowned MIT and Harvard will also be included enabling students to get a taste of where their further studies could take them.

**PROGRAMME OUTCOMES ** ** **You will:

• Learn the basics of web design.
• Learn the basics of Java.
• Learn how to use professional design software.
• Learn how programming is used in the real world.
• Explore video game design.
• Create your own video game.
• Visit top U.S. universities including MIT.

TUITION: Lessons and workshops that allow students to apply coding to solving a number of problems, including designing a computer game.

VIDEO GAME CODING: Students will take part in workshops with a focus on design software and coding practises in order to create their own video game as the final outcome.

EDUCATIONAL VISITS: Our educational visits provide the perfect complement to lectures and workshops and give a real world perspective to our courses. They include tours of both Harvard University and MIT.

CERTIFICATE Awarded for the successful completion of the course including a final finished computer game.