Youth will learn the basic function and reason programmers use loops in their functions. Then we will create a dice roller code to understand loops in a virtual setting and get the campers moving.

In this activity, youth will have a chance to unleash their creativity and create their very own Magic 8 Ball game with some basic Python commands.

This at home activity will help introduce youth to solving and creating logic algorithms. Using an online version of the Tower of Hanoi, youth will learn some more helpful strategies when tackling a logic problem.

Campers will be introduced to the concept of coding by programming an “instructor robot”. This robot will have a set of predetermined commands. The goal is to program the instructor to draw the picture they are shown as accurately as possible.

Campers will learn what makes a strong password, and best practices for making and using passwords. They will use this knowledge to make a Python program that takes user input and returns a strong, memorable password to the user.

Campers will strengthen their knowledge of variables by drawing mandalas. These mandalas will have features that are determined by a list of variables.

Campers will use if/else statements and basic commands in Python to create their own rock, paper, scissors game!

In this unplugged activity, campers will play the role of a programmer and write the set of directions, or "code", for getting around the house, or around different places in the neighbourhood, while exercising their new-found knowledge of if-statements, for-loops, and while-loops