Coding Camp
Coding teaches valuable skills for any future career and also builds skills for school and life. It’s an excellent way to learn soft skills, like creativity, confidence, and communication, that are hugely important for kids to thrive in the future. Fessenden Summer Camps has partnered with iCode Wellesley to offer several age-appropriate Coding Camp experiences focused on a variety of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) related topics. Campers will spend half a day at Coding Camp and the other half of the day enjoying traditional Day Camp activities, including free swim.
Features of Coding Camp
State-of-the art facility and equipment
Instruction in cutting-edge technology and craftsmanship by experienced teachers
Student-centered, teacher-supported approach that promotes an interactive exchange of ideas
A daily schedule that includes outdoor time and free swim
About iCode Wellesley:
With a comprehensive curriculum that is constantly updated and improved, iCode helps prepare K-12 campers with the knowledge and skills to understand the current and future technologies and their application in creating innovative solutions.
iCode’s trained instructors make each class fun and exciting with hands-on-application of the concepts to complement the understanding of theory. The iCode curriculum also incorporates soft-skills through hands-on collaborative projects that teach campers time management, team work, presentation, communication skills, computational and strategic thinking and much more, which result in a superior learning experience and cultivating skills useful in life.
Coding Camp Program Options
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Coding Vex Robotics Week 3
- Length: +Camp
- Gender(s): Boys & Girls
- Age Range: Entering Grades 2-5
- Dates: –
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Schedule:
Monday to Friday
9 am to 4 pm - Extended Program: Extended Day Program Options: Mornings 8-9a, Afternoon 4-6p
- Price: $915
- Description: In this camp, campers are able to learn the basics of robotics programming starting with the simplest of devices and then graduate to more complex builds with Lego and EV3 systems and then to complex Robots. They do a variety of hands-on activities starting with the basic interactions with hardware devices and then extending to the more complex applications of making a moving robot think! With the advanced course they also learn to connect their creations with programming and have them use AI to respond.
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Coding Minecraft Modding Week 4
- Length: +Camp
- Gender(s): Boys & Girls
- Age Range: Entering Grades 3-5
- Dates: –
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Schedule:
Monday to Friday
9 am to 4 pm - Extended Program: Extended Day Program Options: Mornings 8-9a, Afternoon 4-6p
- Price: $915
- Description: Campers will be introduced to the wonderful world of Minecraft, a realm where their imagination and creativity can be unfettered and take flight. They will learn concepts like Engineering through hands-on building of structures and design with different textured blocks. They will be introduced to key mods that extend the base functionality of Minecraft to make it the immersive world that children love to be lost in, learn and socialize with friends and co-designers. Expanding their imagination, extending their creativity and helping them hone their skills and learning is the perfect gateway to strengthening the student’s confidence, competence and collaborative muscles! Building their own basic mods is an unparalleled way to allow them to express their creative skills.
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Coding Minecraft Adventures Week 5
- Length: +Camp
- Gender(s): Boys & Girls
- Age Range: Entering Grades 1-2
- Dates: –
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Schedule:
Monday to Friday
9 am to 4 pm - Extended Program: Extended Day Program Options: Mornings 8-9a, Afternoon 4-6p
- Price: $915
- Description: Calling all Artists, Engineers, Creators, Gamers and Coders! In this camp, the campers get introduced to Minecraft (an extremely popular creative world-building platform) by Microsoft. This is a platform where engineers and artists can show their creativity. Campers explore art and architecture and plan to create basic and complex designs. Campers will learn to explore the world by walking, swimming and flying! They will build the world, starting with basic structures, all the way to the most complex designs. They will also learn about materials starting with simple to compound metals. Students will build different types of worlds and work as a team in a shared world.
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Coding Vex Robotics Week 6
- Length: +Camp
- Gender(s): Boys & Girls
- Age Range: Entering Grades 6-8
- Dates: –
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Schedule:
Monday to Friday
9 am to 4 pm - Extended Program: Extended Day Program Options: Mornings 8-9a, Afternoon 4-6p
- Price: $915
- Description: Campers are able to learn the basics of robotics programming starting with the simplest of devices and then graduate to more complex builds with Lego and EV3 systems and then to complex Robots. They do a variety of hands-on activities starting with the basic interactions with hardware devices and then extending to the more complex applications of making a moving robot think! With the advanced course they also learn to connect their creations with programming and have them use AI to respond.
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Coding AI Engineering Week 7
- Length: +Camp
- Gender(s): Boys & Girls
- Age Range: Entering Grades 3-5
- Dates: –
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Schedule:
Monday to Friday
9 am to 4 pm - Extended Program: Extended Day Program Options: Mornings 8-9a, Afternoon 4-6p
- Price: $915
- Description: Artificial Intelligence is all around us and on everyone’s lips. In this camp, campers will be introduced to types of intelligence and What is Artificial intelligence. They will be instructed to distinguish whether it’s truly AI or programmed behavior using examples we will explore types of artificial intelligence. We will dive into types of AI and what makes AI work. Understanding how AI learns, they will then identify what specific AI programs are good at. Using various tools. we will dive into AI that is good at one or multiple things.
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Coding Scratch Final Five
- Length: Full Day
- Gender(s): Boys & Girls
- Age Range: Entering Grades 1-4
- Dates: –
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Schedule:
Monday to Friday
9 am to 4 pm - Extended Program: Extended Day Program Options: Mornings 8-9a
- Price: $685
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Description:
Our Scratch AI camp extends the traditional visual/block coding language that teaches kids the basics of coding along with key skills in logical thinking, and problem solving with AI capabilities such as image recognition, chat bots, image generation and much more. Scratch has been the beloved introductory language for kids allowing them to learn while having fun and this just extends that further so they can use their creativity as well as computational thinking skills to build enjoyable and useful solutions