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Creative STEM on MONDAYS - Theme: Design and Code Your Own Games, Mazes, Puzzles, and Escape Room


  • The GIANT Room 26 West 23rd Street, 4th floor New York, NY, 10010 United States (map)

DESCRIPTION: For kids who dare to puzzle!

Join us to build epic puzzles and challenge others to solve them! Play all sorts of puzzle games and decide how to use elements for your own. Create your own mazes, logic puzzles, riddles and sequence all sorts into designing your own escape rooms and games for others to solve. Master giving clues to help or hinder people and learn game dynamics and techniques to use in your story to keep people on their toes. Participants will also explore game genres, like spinner games and games of chance, timers and timed games, mazes and pac-man style games. This experience is a wonderful mix of game design, math, technology and storytelling.

Kids will be picked up at dismissal time. From 3 to 3:30 they will engage in free play/making time while waiting for all of the participants to arrive.

Recommended for ages 7-10

 

We provide complimentary pick up from PS 11, PS 33, PS 41, PS 340, Avenues, and Corlears for those who register for the whole semester.

 

FORMAT: In Person at GIANT Flatiron Hub (26 West 23rd Street, 4th floor)

DATES: Mondays at 3:00-5:30pm, from April 17th to June 26th (Skipping 5/29, 6/19 for public schools holidays)

LEARN ABOUT

  • Fundamentals in block-based coding (logic, loop, variables, functions, events, and more)

  • Digital art and animation

  • Game design, prototyping, and fabricating physical arcade games, board games, and more

PRICE: $60 per session when you sign up for the full semester or $68 per individual session