Ohio State University Summer Camp

Java Coding: Build Mods with Minecraft

• 10-12 liters
• Coding, Game Dev
• Features: Minecraft, Java, IntelliJ.

The Java Coding: Build Mods with Minecraft course will help you learn the source code for Minecraft, the foundation of the Java programming language. Participants integrate custom tools, blocks, mobs into their version of this open game. The course will introduce Java programming in an accessible way, prepare for future training in the IT field.

Learning Outcomes:

• Using variables, functions, control structures to configure Minecraft
• Java development
• Minecraft Mod Development
• The development of logical thinking, problem-solving skills.

Java Coding: Custom Blocks & Maps in Minecraft

• 10-12 liters
• Coding, game development, creative
• Provision: Minecraft, Java, IntelliJ.

Using Java-code allows you to add a personalized modernized Minecraft style, create your own items, blocks, design, build an adventure map, include unique additions to the game. The practice of Java coding, game design, will allow you to create mods, maps, share them with friends.

The curriculum includes:

• Creating adventure maps, Minecraft mods
• Using variables, functions, control structures to configure Minecraft
• Learning Java
• The development of logical thinking, skills to solve technical problems.

Game Creation & AI with JavaScript

• 10-12 liters
• Coding, game development, creative
• Tools: JavaScript, HTML5.

Students will learn JavaScript, a powerful programming language that is used by 95% of all sites in the world, used to create exciting interactive games. Participants will develop projects with vivid graphics, learn to read input data, recreate their favorite games. Teenagers will begin to explore machine learning, complement their game with voice, sound, image recognition. Using artificial intelligence, JavaScript, HTML, participants will develop the next generation of games, begin to program.

Classes allow you to:

• Use programming logic, develop game mechanics
• Design games from start to finish
• Practice the principles of game design.

Coding & engineering 101

• 10-12 liters
• Game Dev, Creative
• Equipment: Autodesk Maya, Unreal Engine 4.

Students of the Coding & Engineering 101 summer program will learn more about professional video game design and will use the most popular industry tools. Participants will learn how to create 3D objects in Maya, design levels using Unreal Engine 4, combine the acquired skills, creating a thoughtful world. By importing their Maya models into Unreal, teens will add unique coded elements using the UE4 Blueprints visual scripting system. This comprehensive course allows you to create your own professionally developed level, complement the portfolio.

Students will learn:

• Create levels, environments
• Design 3D Models
• Use Blueprints Visual Scripting
• To instill game design skills, creativity.

Robotics & Sensors with Take-Home Sphero RVR

• 10-12 liters
• Coding robotics
• Features: Sphero RVR with Advanced Sensor Kit.

Students will learn autonomous robotics - the revolutionary Sphero RVR, a programmable robot ready to work right after a stop. Sphero RVR is a customizable bot with a wide range of sensors, a professional-level control system, a powerful engine, and increased cross-country ability.

Participants will learn:

• Sphero RVR bot management, coding techniques
• Robotics Basics
• The basic behavior of artificial intelligence.

YouTube Gamecasting & Video Production

• 10-12 liters
• Creative
• Software: Adobe Premiere, video equipment, YouTube.

Students will launch a YouTube gaming channel, learn how to broadcast their favorite video games, move on to the basics of production, create audio, visual effects for an exciting online broadcast around the world. YouTube's Gamecasting & Video Production program is the perfect mix of games, video production, and a host of exciting, real-life skills.

Syllabus:

• Creation of gameplay YouTube videos
• Using carrier software, editing video, audio
• Creating an online brand.

Video Production: Start Your Own YouTube Channel

• 10-12 liters
• Creative
• Tools: Adobe Premiere, video equipment, YouTube.

Video Production: Start Your Own YouTube Channel will teach you how to create your own brand, launch a YouTube channel. Pupils themselves determine the format of online presence: from video blogs to textbooks, short films. Having studied the basics of preliminary preparation, compositions, young people will shoot on professional equipment, edit frames using the Adobe Premiere software, and will take their projects to a new level.

The course includes:

• Shooting video content, using the basics of production
• Using Professional DSLR Cameras
• Creating a unique online brand.

Creative Design Studio with Adobe Animate

• 10-12 liters
• Game Dev, Creative
• Hardware: Adobe Creative Suite.

Students will master the fundamental principles of art, animation, which are used by game design professionals, will use premium software Adobe Animate, a set of other Adobe products that allows you to reveal your inner vision. Developing such skills as problem solving, critical thinking, composition planning, the course will form a solid foundation for designing, creating creative solutions, and the necessary skills to enable a future designer to succeed.

Learning Outcomes:

• Mastering the basics of design, animation using the basics of drawing
• Using a Wacom Professional Drawing Tablet
• Practice visual storytelling through concepts, planning
• Digital Portfolio Development.

3D Printing & Modeling with Take-Home Printer

• 10-12 liters
• Creative
• Provision: Autodesk Maya, Monoprice Select Mini V2.

The program will help form the foundations of three-dimensional modeling, create simple models, and trace the entire process of 3D printing. Participants will design a model from scratch in Autodesk Maya or import a more sophisticated design to use as a starting point. When creating their project, participants will learn how to maintain a 3D printer, take everything that they have printed home, acquire skills, tools that allow them to continue working in the field of 3D modeling.

Program Content:

• Mastering the 3D printing process
• Use best practices for efficient 3D printing, troubleshooting
• Work in 3D space, design of 3D models
• Development of visual spatial abilities.

Game Design & Development 101

• 13-17 l.
• Game Dev, Creative
• Equipment: Autodesk Maya, Unreal Engine 4.

Young people will get acquainted with the professional design of video games, master the most popular industry tools, learn the creation of 3D objects in Maya, design levels of Unreal Engine 4, and combine their new skills to create a thoughtful world. By importing Maya models into Unreal, students will customize their world, add unique coded elements using the UE4 Blueprints visual scripting system. Graduates will complete the course by developing their own professional game level, adding to the portfolio.

The curriculum includes:

• Creating levels, environments
• 3D model design
• Using Visual Scripting Blueprints
• Development of the necessary design skills, creativity.

Level Design & Cinematics with Unreal Engine 4

• 13-17 l.
• Game Dev, Creative
• Tools: Unreal Engine 4, Adobe Photoshop.

Level Design & Cinematics with Unreal Engine 4 teaches you the skills to create a game world, using a world-class photo-realistic engine that is used to create award-winning products. Using the Sequencer, an editing tool, animations, students will create dynamic clips, detailed characters, animations, and sound design.

Study results:

• Creating levels, environments
• Filling worlds with nets, actors
• Shooting a video, using the Sequencer
• Using Visual Blueprints Programming Language
• Mastering basic game development skills.

Program Gameplay Mechanics with Unreal Engine 4

• 13-17 l.
• Coding, Game Dev
• Equipment: Unreal Engine 4.

Students will develop unique games and use the full set of tools from Unreal Engine 4, the leading game engine that is used to create award-winning projects. Teens will learn how to develop traditional types of games - FPS, platformers, racing games, use Blueprints, a visual programming language, to change, create game events - moving platforms, control points. Teenagers will expand their design skills and advance towards a career as a game designer.

The curriculum includes:

• Designing levels, environments
• Filling worlds with nets, actors
• Using Blueprints, the Unreal Engine visual programming language, implementing game mechanics
• Player interaction development
• Essential game design skills.

VR Design with Unity & Oculus Go

• 13-17 l.
• Coding, Game Dev
• Provision: Unity, Magica Voxel, Oculus Go.

Participants in the course will get acquainted with virtual reality, try Oculus Go. This all-in-one virtual system with no wires or cords connected is combined with Unity, a standard game engine. Creating amazing worlds, students will experience the possibilities of visual, audio immersion, take their projects home, Oculus Go, continue to create, improve interactive virtual projects.

Students will learn:

• Use of virtual environments, game objects, models, levels
• Program Interactions with C #
• 3D modeling, creating a virtual reality experience
• Development of coding skills, design.

Intro to Python Coding for Machine Learning

• 13-17 l.
• Coding
• Tools: Python, Tensorflow, PyCharm.

Young people will learn coding skills - one of the most popular in the modern labor market, get real experience of introduction to machine learning, see how coding knowledge is applicable to machine learning. Students will learn logic games, Python, the fastest growing programming language available, will move on to object-oriented concepts. With a deeper understanding of coding, they will study the creation of simple neural networks and prepare for more advanced machine learning courses.

Classes teach:

• Python Programming
• The basics of neural networks
• A basic understanding of machine learning
• Computational thinking skills.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

• 13-17 l.
• Coding
• Equipment: PyCharm, Python, TensorFlow.

Summer camp Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning offers students to master machine learning, which opens up the possibility of completing tasks that were previously considered impossible. Students use data sets, probabilities, statistics, use Python and TensorFlow (help computers emulate the work of the brain). Novice students are encouraged to learn the basic Python skills for machine learning.

The curriculum allows you to:

• Use TensorFlow, create neural networks
• Learn Python Machine Learning
• Learn without direct coding
• Develop coding skills, logical thinking.

Cybersecurity & encryption

• 13-17 l.
• Coding
• Provision: Python, PyCharm.

Students will learn how to encrypt information, create secret messages, share plans with their classmates, always staying one step ahead of potential cyber attacks. The curriculum includes data encryption, the use of special programs, they will learn how the principles of cryptography are related to modern cybersecurity, learn functions, write the implementation of algorithms (SHA, RSA) that ensure the security of modern computer systems.

Students will master:

• Message encryption, information storage mechanisms
• Decryption of encrypted messages
• Creation, analysis of small security programs.

Voice Apps for Amazon Alexa & Google Assistant

• 13-17 l.
• Coding
• Features: Voice stream for Alexa and Google Assistant.

Take voice applications to the next level. In this unique course, you can develop an application for Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant. Regardless of whether you want your application to play a voice game or transfer music to rooms or devices, drag and drop encoding in Voiceflow makes your voice application a reality. Develop the next record app and post it online to share with the world.

In this course you will:

• Create voice applications
• Work with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant
• Use operator programs.

Advanced Minecraft Modding with Java

• 13-17 l.
• Coding, Game Dev
• Equipment: Minecraft, Java, IntelliJ.

Students will learn production Java coding with Minecraft. In this increasingly popular game, they will change the live code base, create their own tools, blocks and mobs. By revealing the capabilities of Java, students will gain the skills of solving problems for their future careers and personal projects.

Training allows you to:

• Use variables, functions, control structures to configure Minecraft
• Encode using Java
• Create Minecraft Mods
• Develop logical thinking, problem solving skills.

Code Apps with Java

• 13-17 l.
• Coding
• Tools: Java, IntelliJ.

Teens will learn the basics of Java, one of the most relevant programming languages today. Java has many uses, from game development to business applications. Regardless of how far students have advanced in coding, the program will help improve Java skills through console applications, programming tasks.

Learning Outcomes:

• Java Project Coding
• Using arrays, loops, if statements
• Definition of variables, data types, classes, constructors
• The solution to programming problems.

Java Coding & Game Development

• 13-17 l.
• Coding, Game Dev
• Features: Java, IntelliJ, processing.

Teenagers will discover the intersection of coding and graphics, using Java, one of the most popular coding languages in the world, learn the basics of programming, design arcade games. Going beyond the scope of text programs, participants will create visual interactions using a processing library. Fascinating graphics that go beyond console programs will allow you to create a portfolio that colleges will notice.

The curriculum includes:

• Java Games Encoding
• Defining variables, if statements, loops, classes, constructors
• Creation of graphics, animations
• Game Design Application
• The solution to programming problems.

Code Apps with C ++

• 13-17 l.
• Coding
• Software: C ++, Microsoft Visual Studio Community.

Code Apps with C ++ program participants will learn the basics of one of the most important programming languages, master applications covering design, system software, and game development. C ++ opens the door to the vast world of coding, development, allows you to create projects, test the growing knowledge of coding issues in an interview format.

Tasks allow you to:

• Initialize, use variables
• Work with strings, characters, algorithms
• Solve programming problems
• Read, respond to user input.

Develop & Code Games with C ++

• 13-17 l.
• Coding, Game Dev
• Tools: C ++, the Microsoft Visual Studio Community.

Teenagers will take C ++ to a new level, embed images in their projects, use graphic libraries, create their own arcade games using one of the most popular programming languages. Participants will focus on managing the keyboard, mouse, basic artificial intelligence, find the interaction points of all the main components of the creation of the game. Students will improve their gaming programming skills using the standard edition of Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition.

Program Content:

• Initialization, use of variables
• Work with strings, characters, algorithms
• Using graphic libraries, adding visual effects
• Reading, replies to users.

Autonomous Robotics with Take-Home Sphero RVR

• 13-17 l.
• Coding, Robotics
• Equipment: Sphero RVR with an advanced set of sensors.

Young people will discover the world of autonomous robotics, managing Sphero RVR - a durable, versatile, programmable robot, ready to work immediately after installation. Sphero RVR takes into account individual characteristics, has many built-in sensors, a professional-level control system, a powerful engine, and off-road protectors. This is more than a regular programmable bot - it is a new level of interaction between hardware, practical robotics, and engineering.

Study results:

• Using Sphero RVR to learn coding techniques, robotics
• Reading Sensor Data
• The formation of the basic behavior of artificial intelligence
• Using programming logic, machine learning.

3D Printing Modular Devices with Take-Home Printer

• 13-17 l.
• Robotics, Creative
• Features: Autodesk Maya, Monoprice Select Mini V2.

Participants in the 3D Printing Modular Devices with Take-Home Printer program will open the developing world of 3D printing, create complex models using Autodesk Maya, and design moving parts. Teenagers will experience the printing process from start to finish: they will learn the correct maintenance procedures, safety, replace the filament, clean, prepare the assembly plate, make a print sample. Students will see how their prints take shape layer by layer, connect the engines to the models.

The program allows you to:

• Track all stages of the 3D printing process
• Use best practices for effective 3D printing, troubleshoot printing
• Master 3D space, design of 3D models
• Create moving print models.

Snapchat Filters & 3D Modeling with Maya

• 13-17 l.
• Creative
• Software: Autodesk Maya, Snapchat Lens Studio.

Snapchat provides an unprecedented opportunity to share visual moments online. Using Autodesk Maya, students will create models, small characters, and props. Snapchat Lens Studio will allow you to design your own AR filters, Gif elements. Students implement their projects thanks to the rich capabilities of Snapchat, the power of Autodesk Maya.

Course Outline:

• Using modeling tools
• The practice of modeling methods of the environment, hard surfaces
• Adding lighting, texture
• Snapchat Filter Development
• Designing 3D models.

Video Production & Special Effects for YouTube

• 13-17 l.
• Creative
• Hardware: Adobe Premiere & After Effects, YouTube.

The Video Production & Special Effects for YouTube program will allow you to study the stages of video production, plan, frame digital videos, collaborate with your colleagues, make a film using professional equipment. Using the capabilities of Adobe Premiere, teenagers will edit clips, add developed animations, special effects using Adobe After Effects.

The course includes:

• Use of professional equipment including DSLR cameras
• Editing video, audio tracks, using operator software
• Production of special effects, animations.

Machine Learning: Coding Deep Neural Networks

• 13-17 l.
• Coding, Robotics
• Equipment: NVIDIA Jetson Nano, PyCharm, TensorFlow.

Machine learning methods, formalized in the 1950s, today have a significant impact on science, technology, various industries where high-precision knowledge is required. Machine learning shows the best results in the field of diagnostics, natural language processing and Siri, working with images, Snapchat filters, today it is ready to advance the technologies of the future.

Students will use Python, TensorFlow and data sets, build neural networks, set up reward schemes, process data, and improve machine learning. Young people will test their skills in the environments used by professional researchers - Deepmind Starcraft 2 Learning Environment.

Students will learn:

• Use TensorFlow, create a neural network
• Apply Python, machine learning
• Work without direct coding
• Optimize learning speed.

Hackathon: Team-Based App Creation with Unity

• 13-17 l.
• Coding, game development, creative
• Software: Unity, C #, Adobe Photoshop.

Students will develop a working application with a team of peers: in the first week, they will learn the basics of application development using Unity, the standard development tool, C #. Having gained the experience of UX / UX, participants will work on the interaction of coding and technologies.

After learning the basics, participants will work in a group, realizing a common vision: they will check the code in online repositories, create versions of the code. The training will end with the creation of an application or game, ready for further advancement.

In this course you will:

• Create applications, design workflows
• Encode using C #
• Learn effective techniques for working with a team.

Cybersecurity Lab: Encryption and Steganography

• 13-17 l.
• Coding
• Tools: Python, PyCharm, Prototype HARP.

Cybersecurity Lab: Encryption and Steganography allows you to study cryptographic elements, encrypt information using complex puzzles, ciphers. Students learn how encryption turns numbers, text, images, sounds into a scrambled stream, combines them again. Students will learn about modern cybersecurity and see that these time-tested methods protect information in the digital age.

Young people will learn to hide, save information on digital media, such as images, music, video. They will study hashing algorithms (SHA, RSA), Linux, will discover the aspects of cryptography, security, encryption necessary for communicating in this new language.

Study results:

• Using Python, encrypting, decrypting messages
• Mastering several encryption methods
• Development of security skills, analytics
• Solving cryptographic puzzles.

C ++ Game Programming: Algorithms & AI

• 13-17 l.
• Coding
• Hardware: C ++, Microsoft Visual Studio.

The two-week course C ++ Game Programming: Algorithms & AI will open a huge world of programming, development, C ++ syntax. Developing games with 2D graphics and user controls throughout the session, participants will master this popular programming language.

The second part of the course will complement the games with the most popular algorithms - finding paths, creating maps. Knowledge of C ++ language will help those who plan to develop games to enter college for technical courses.

Training includes:

• Read user input, print formatted output
• Game cycle implementation
• Using game algorithms (finding a path, creating a map).

Game Engine Development With C ++

• 13-17 l.
• Coding
• Equipment: C ++, Microsoft Visual Studio.

Using C ++, students will create their first game, study the similarities, differences in the structure of codes, select elements that help quickly and efficiently implement new content. This knowledge will become the basis for creating their own game engine: young people will decide for themselves which element to save or cut when creating the starting point of several projects. Game engines are an integral part of professional game development, allowing you to iterate through mechanics and balance until the game is perfect.

Participants will master:

• Read user input, print formatted output
• Game cycle implementation
• Adding graphics, project controls
• Developing an API for creating game engine content
• Creating basic code.