Cobham – Summer Holiday Camp (10th Aug – 14th Aug 2026)

Make games rather than play them using your own ideas! Become game developers for a day using a physical and virtual platform for creating video games in the classroom. When students build games, they become the writers, artists, designers, and developers of their own interactive stories.

It all starts with an idea. We provide resources that encourage collaboration while guiding students through a design thinking process. Students create their own 13-bit layouts, characters, and art for their game.

• turn your physical creations into digital game elements
• edit and customize everything from characters to settings
• develop interactions and behaviour between characters
• tell rich, dynamic narratives through your games
• publish them so others can play them too

Learn how to code in Java with Minecraft in a highly interactive learning environment!

The participant can use a drag & drop interface which is highly intuitive, but the blocks also show the actual java code too. Coding concepts like variables, if/then/else statements and constructors will be learnt. More advanced participants can switch any time from block-based drag-and-drop code to Javascript.

The children can play with their creations and show their friends at the end of the session on a secure server that only the course participants on the day will have access to:

• Code in Minecraft using a Java editor
• Increase complexity with Conditions and Variables
• Learn about Boolean and Loops
• Test and debug using logic and systematic reasoning
• Connect your world and Play in Minecraft

Children use the Lego WeDo 2.0 to design robots to solve real world problems. They learn to code their robots in interactive challenges. In addition to the basics of robotics, children learn key engineering principles such as force and motion, gear ratios and aerodynamics.

• Solve a real world ‘big problem’ such as pollution, animal welfare, dinosaur habitats
• Apply engineering concepts such as gear ratios, aerodynamics, motions
• Explore visual programming with the WeDo 2.0 and EV3 software
• Build robots that use motors
• Program and utilize different sensors
• Develop structural design skills