Orange Community Education & Recreation

Learn to code as you create video games and program LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Robots. Over multiple sessions we'll follow student interests to explore options such as Scratch, Alice 3D animation, Python, JavaScript, Arduino microprocessors and more. No prior programming experience necessary. If you've taken this class before, don't worry! There are new games and robot challenges each time. Parents, you may choose to send a USB flash drive for your student to save projects, or provide a non-school email at registration, and we'll use it to help your student create a free online account to store their projects. No camp June 19. *Lions Club Extended Care is not available for campers before, between or after Discovery Camps. 

Wanna make video games? Love building with LEGO® bricks? This camp is for you. Learn how to create video games using Scratch, free software from MIT that you can use at home long after the class. Then, we'll bring the action to life as we build and program LEGO® mini robots. If you've taken this course before, don't worry! We explore different themes and make different games and robots each time. Parents, you may choose to send a USB flash drive for your student to save projects, or provide a non-school email at registration, and we'll use it to help your student create a free online Scratch account and store projects in the cloud. Learn more about the Scratch Online Community here: https://scratch.mit.edu/parents. No camp June 19. *Lions Club Extended Care is not available for campers before, between or after Discovery Camps. 

Are you interested in dabbling in fiction writing? Think you might have a short story or a novel in you but don’t know where to start? If you answered yes, this introductory fiction writing class is for you. Designed specifically for those with little to no fiction writing experience who want to learn how to begin a fiction writing project, this class helps you find a pathway toward your fiction writing goals. You will learn the basic building blocks of story: character, plot and setting, as well as the different forms of fiction writing and some of the genres you might like to explore. You will also learn about researching avenues for marketing your work: online versus print magazines, self-publishing versus publishing with a traditional press. Whether you’ve never written a word of fiction, or haven’t written since high school or college, you will complete the course with the skills you need to get started on a new work of fiction (or to revive an old one that’s been sitting in your bottom drawer) as well as an outline for moving forward with your project, including goals for ultimately marketing. Instructor: Jacqueline Lipton Location: Online Asynchronous