FizGig Summer Camps For Teens
The FizGig Summer camps in Dublin are designed to capture the imagination of kids that love gaming and computer animation. You just don't play games you make them. And if your kids spend hours on YouTube watching animations – why not teach them to create their own? FizGig offers the hottest 2 camps in Dublin, Computer Gaming Camps and Animation Camps. The focus of the camps is to make learning fun for the kids and ideal for kids that are bored with conventional multi-activity camps or who love gaming and spend hours on the computer. These camps are for children 9 to 16 years of age and where the group is more than 20 children they will be broken into two age groups 9 - 12 years and 13 - 16 years.
These one-week camps give children the opportunity to put their creative juices to work in one of the cool environment in Dublin, the Windmill Lane Recording Studios, where they can learn new skills and have a great time. It’s not all screen-facing, kids will have regular breaks with supervised indoor activities such as golf putting, table tennis, quizzes and more.
FizGig Animation Summer Camps
Your child will be taught how to use Stop-motion animation and imovie software to create short animations which they will be able to access at home via their mobile phone or other resource such as YouTube.
The Animation camp runes for one week from 20 - 24 June and 15 - 19 August
FizGig Gaming Summer Camps
Your child will be taught to develop their own game using Macs and specialist gaming software, Mac Scratch 1.4.
The Gaming camp runes for one week from 13 - 17 June and 8 - 12 August
Family Fun Tip -
- It is important to realise that in order to create the type of commercial games/animations that children are used to playing/seeing can take many years of training and experience.
- Fizgiggers will have access to the internet but there will be viewing restrictions in place so as to make inappropriate content hard to access.
FizGig Camps Times
The camps run daly from 9.30 to 14.00 with supervisuion available until 14.30
- 9.30 to 10.00 - Supervised activities – children will not be thought however they will have access to computers and some fun stuff e.g. a golf putting strip, board games, table tennis
- 10.00 to 11.00 - Course starts. Introduction to gaming / animation theory and practical introduction to using creativity to generate game storyline / video.
- 11.00 to 11.15 - Quick active break – e.g. table tennis
- 11.15 to 11.45 - Active demos and use of software and tools on computer equipment
- 11.45 to 12.30 - Use of video equipment, cameras, green screen
- 12.30 to 12.45 - Lunch Break / Activities
- 12.45 to 14.00 - Editing of material on computers using software tools
- 14.00 to 14.30 - Course finished 2pm Supervision available until 14.30
FizGig Camps Prices
The courses cost €180 per camp per child. Where siblings are booked on the same course or where a student is booked for two consecutive camps, a discounted rate of €160 per child per week applies
FizGig Camps Booking
- You can book these camps Online now
- By calling 01 4784045 and they can take your booking and payment over the phone
- You can find more information on the camps at FizGigcamps.com
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