Q Academy’s Minecraft kid’s camps combine learning and gaming, and add the social elements that many kids at home don’t get to exercise. Through face to face interaction and some real-world building activities, your child will have tons of fun.

Campers learn how to work as a team as they take on the real-world jobs of programmer, game designer, artist, and architect. There are two modes of the game. The scenario above describes the survival mode. There is also a creative mode where there are no monsters and you will be able to fly around and have unlimited resources to build amazing creations and buildings. What kind of adventure you choose will be up to you!

This camp is for beginners and those already playing the game.

Minecraft is a block-building game with no set rules, where you can build anything you can possibly imagine.

In Minecraft 102, players build, explore, create, collaborate, and even survive within the game. Minecraft has created a new type of gaming environment so embrace your inner gamer. For veteran gamers, this camp will assist you in your survival and creative skills and you may also learn new strategies from creative mode.

This camp is for those campers that have already been playing Minecraft. Campers learn how to make modifications and use tools to expand their creative abilities.

Dig into the Minecraft source code to explore the fundamentals of the Java programming language by creating custom blocks, items, and mods for Minecraft. This camp introduces Java programming in an accessible way that is sure to get students excited about a future in coding.

This camp is for those campers that have already been playing Minecraft and have completed 101 and 102.

All campers are required to have a Minecraft account for this class. Purchase a standard account and desktop version (PC/Mac) of Minecraft at: https://minecraft.net/en-us/

Campers should bring their account login when they come to camp.

Campers will be using Bitsbox and Code Avengers to learn basic coding skills. This program was designed for children and it teaches them the basics of programming as they create animated characters, video games, and interactive artwork.

Since computer programming is considered the new literacy, Q Academy wants to provide today’s youth with the great opportunity of getting a taste of the basics of programming. Your children will be learning as well as having fun, and while using Bitsbox and Code Avengers, they learn to think creatively, work collaboratively, and reason systematically.

This camp is for beginners.

This is the camp to take for those that want their creativity to run wild and create a video game that others want to play. Learn to Code 102 teaches campers how to build two-dimensional video games. This software provides an easy-to-use game-authoring environment that allows campers to create many types of computer games, screen savers, and other applications.

Campers will get started with a Space Shooter Game where they learn how to create moving backgrounds, add scores and lives, design instructions and titles, create waves of enemies, and transition screens. Later in the week, campers will learn more advanced skills to assist them in Learn to Code 103.

This camp is for beginners and students that completed Learn to Code 101.

Campers will be using a gaming software to recreate a short video game. The program is designed for children, and teaches them the basics of programing as they create animated stories, video games, and interactive artwork.

Using colorful programming blocks, campers drag and “drop” together the blocks to make a character a Sprite walk, play music, or interact with other sprites.

Since computer programming is considered the new literacy, young people now have an opportunity to put together multimedia programs without any previous programming knowledge. As children create with the program, they learn to think creatively, work collaboratively, and have fun while learning.

This camp is for students that completed Learn to Code 101 and 102 or previous coding skills.

There are several programs that will allow kids access to an already constructed animation file that they can manipulate. Functions such as character art, walk cycles, dramatic movements, and facial expressions can be recreated and added to your file in an instant! The result is an animation of your character art doing what the original character could.

Students will go the steps to recreate artwork for their character to animate!

Basic computer skills are necessary for this camp.

Adobe Photoshop is a powerful image manipulation and photo editing program. Does you child want to learn how to manipulate photos and graphics?  Are they interested in how to remove blemishes, tattoos and airbrush photos?  Then this camp is for them.

Students will be shown how to take a photo of a person and manipulate it using masks and filters to add and remove features from faces. Changing hair colours, and enhancing photos is always great fun. Basic Computer skills are necessary (powering on, mouse use, basic desktop navigation etc.)

Student must bring their own digital images in a usb drive or have access to their camera or phone to upload pictures with.

Basic computer skills are necessary for this camp.

Pow! Wow! Screech! Does your child live and breathe comic books?  Do you always find them reading their favorite Comic? Why not allow them to create their very own comic book, in our Comic Creation Camp!

They will have loads of fun creating their own comic using your favorites characters or their own characters to develop your comic book story.

Using computers, software, cameras, & imagination, kids will have tons of fun in this camp. At the end of the week, campers will be provided with a printed & digital copy of the comic book they created.

Basic computer skills are necessary for this camp.

Kids Spring Break / Summer Camps

Kids Pi Camps- Date Pending

The Raspberry Pi is a low-cost computer, adopted by an eager community of hackers and makers. It powers projects around the world and in space. Since 2012, more than 11 million have been sold. The goal of Pi Camp, taught by instructors from the Victoria PiMakers Group, is to help teens learn about computers, to help them participate in shaping a digital world. . It is a great introductory course for kids who are interested in computers.

All camps are pending the minimum number of student to run.

Camps Schedule: Monday through Friday 9 am to 3 pm Student are given a 30 minute for lunch which is supervised.

Additional Services:

Before Camp care: 8:30-9 am $15.00 a day or weekly for $75.00

After Camp care: 3 pm – 4:30 pm max $25 .00 or weekly for $125.00