👶 Ages 8–12📍 Lincoln Square

Coding & Game Design for Grades 3rd-6th

Name: Coding & Game Design for Grades 3rd-6th
Start: 2026-08-31T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-08-31T14:00:00-04:00
Location: Lincoln Center Robofun

📆Mon, Aug 31 · 1:00 PM

📍Lincoln Center Robofun · 110 West End Ave, New York, NY

🏷From $497

About this event

Students will design their own video-games using software developed by MIT media lab called Scratch. They will learn to be programmers: use logic, develop and piece together code to make their own games. As they build and move through such games as our “Adventure”, “Maze” and “Platform” games, they will advance their coding skills and increase the complexity of what they’re working on to more and more realistic games. In this class, students often go from being uncertain about what programming is, to being confident about their ability to come up with their own game and design it in a single class. Scratch was developed by Dr. Mitchel Resnick of the MIT Media Lab and associates. Dr. Resnick is one of Robofun’s Board members and trusted advisors.

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