Kids love video games, just ask them. But, what if they could build their own video games? Could you help them success with at that goal? Probably not, but that’s fine because I have a complete video course developed just for this purpose.
During the summer of 2016, our Gaming Bootcamp taught 133 kids how to build video games. Their ages ranged from 7 to 17 and most of them had no prior experience building games. Read more
On October 15, 2016 Embe co-hosted the first ever Girl’s Maker Day geared towards building confidence in making and getting girls excited about fields where women are traditionally under-represented. The fair included all hands-on activities including video game programming, chemistry, design thinking, 3D printing, and more.
This summer we hosted nine Gaming Bootcamps around our region that included 133 kids. Out of all of those kids, most of them were boys, which just breaks my heart. We struggled to get six girls to attend our camp that we co-hosted with the Girl Scouts. Read more
Code Bootcamp, Sioux Falls Diversity Council, and AT&T team up to teach STEM education on South Dakota’s Indian reservations through building video games, and we are so excited.
The Sioux Falls Diversity Council has received an $11,000 contribution from AT&T that will target STEM education for Native American grade school students in South Dakota. The grant will support our Code Bootcamp of Sioux Falls program to teach programming skills to students on various South Dakota’s Indian reservations.
I am so excited that we are launching our third Code Bootcamp of South Dakota this summer. We can’t wait to start our next session, we have learned so much from our first two bootcamps. Our twelve week educational experience focuses on academic learning, hands-on projects and group activities, all the details can be found at: Read more
Code Bootcamp of South Dakota switched gears in early August. Instead of spending 12-weeks teaching adults how to kick start a career in coding we are hosted a summer camp!
That’s right! It is a summer camp with computers. Our first five-day Gaming Camp for kids is taking place the Code Bootcamp of South Dakota headquarters. Read more
Code Bootcamp launched on May 26th with 9 students! We have been working hard, touring local technology businesses and starting our work projects. In the coming weeks we will be profiling each of our students, so keep an eye out for those. A quick insight into our students include three who have moved to Sioux Falls from out of state, three women and one high-school student! Read more