Builders
Late Elementary. Bigger projects, real code, and serious fun for confident young builders!
Junior Minecraft Hacker
Build and share your own custom Minecraft mods
Your child goes from playing Minecraft to rewriting its rules. Using visual modding tools, they design, code, and deploy their own custom blocks, items, and creatures, then export a library of mods to share with friends.
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Along the way students think in systems: defining properties, behaviors, and recipes, and watching how one change ripples through the whole game. They practice real programming logic like conditionals and event triggers, getting their first genuine taste of software engineering inside a world they already love.
What Makes Us Different
- Your child builds and exports real Minecraft mods to keep and share
- Creates custom blocks, items, and mobs with their own properties
- Uses conditional logic and event triggers to control behavior
- Learns systems thinking: how one change affects the whole game
Create & Play Your Own Games: Scratch
Build arcade-style games and master game logic in Scratch
Your child becomes the game designer, building classic arcade-style games in Scratch while mastering the computer-science logic underneath them. They manage scores, lives, and game states using variables, and code collisions and physics with conditional logic.
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Students get real creative freedom, choosing their own themes, characters, and rules, then polish their projects through peer feedback and testing before sharing them online. They finish with a multi-level game they designed and debugged themselves.
What Makes Us Different
- Your child builds a complete arcade-style game with levels and scoring
- Uses variables to track scores, lives, and timing
- Codes collisions and mechanics with conditional logic and broadcasts
- Tests, debugs, and polishes a real project to share
Build Your Own Machine Learning Games
Build and train your first machine learning models to play with in Scratch!
Your child builds a video game that gets smarter the more it plays, powered by a machine learning model they train themselves. They run the full loop real AI engineers use: collect data, train, test, and wire it into a game. It is the difference between using AI and building it.
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Every session features hands-on projects where kids train models to recognize hand gestures, keypresses, or voice commands, then connect those models directly to games they build in Scratch. Along the way, students learn about dataset size, accuracy, bias, and the engineering mindset.
What Makes Us Different
- Train real machine learning models using images, text, and sounds
- Integrate custom AI models directly into Scratch games
- Learn the entire machine learning pipeline from data collection to testing
- Get personalized guidance with small class sizes
No camp is scheduled for this group right now. reach out and we'll tell you the moment one opens.
Payment Options
- Single class or camp a la carte option available
- Secure online payment via Stripe
What's Included
- Laptop for each student
- Personalized guidance and mentorship
- All software and class materials
- Small class sizes
Questions?
Have questions? Contact us and we'll help you find the right fit for your child.
Past Sessions
Chess Club @ TaliTech
Chess Club will not be offered this season. Chess is still available in our Makerspace, and you can let us know if you'd like it back.
View Class DetailsMinecraft Modding In Java
Camp
Transform your child from a Minecraft player into a creative mod developer in just one week! Through hands-on projects using MCreator, students will build their own custom game modifications while developing essential skills in logic, problem-solving, and game mechanics. They'll dive into structured thinking and even get an introduction to real Java programming concepts along the way.
Learning Focus
- MCreator
- Textures (Blocks, Items, Armour)
- Mod Blocks (Hardness, Material)
- Mod Crafting Recipes (Crafting Table, Furnace)
- Project Management
- Beginner Java Programming
Prerequisites (recommended)
Familiarity with Minecraft gameplay. Some previous coding experience (Scratch or similar) preferred but not required.