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IT Summer Camp at Bentley University is open for children, adolescents of all skill levels, there are summer courses in programming, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cinema, robotics, game design, development skills that are in demand in the high-tech labour market (Dell, Bose, Boston Scientific, Intel).
In the summer camp participants get several advantages: small classes, qualfied camp staff and instructors, significant expansion of students' practical skills.
Roblox is a fast-growing platform for creating games that attracts more than 100 million players every month, and leading developers earn more than $ 1 million per year. Using the built-in Roblox editor to create three-dimensional worlds, participants will publish their projects online, play with friends on any platform, from the console to the mobile phone. Young people will learn games that have become hits, learn how to implement some monetization strategies.
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Roblox is a fast-growing platform for creating games, it attracts 100 million players per month, developers receive more than $ 1 million per month. Using the built-in Roblox editor, participants will work on Lua, a powerful, fast game-oriented programming language. Lua allows you to create scripts of your own game, sell them to other designers.
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Students will learn the source code of Minecraft, the basics of the Java programming language, integrate custom tools, blocks, mobs into their version of this open game. The course includes programming in Java in an accessible way that will prepare graduates for future studies.
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The use of Java-code allows you to add a personalized modernized Minecraft style, your own items, blocks, design, build an adventure map, include your own additions. By practicing Java coding, game design, students will create mods, maps, and be able to share them online.
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95% of all sites in the world use JavaScript: the use of this powerful language allows you to learn the basics of coding, and helps to create exciting interactive games. Participants will be able to program their own projects, apply vivid graphics, read input data, and recreate their favorite games. Later, young people will learn to introduce voice, sound, image recognition into the game. Using artificial intelligence, JavaScript, HTML, participants will develop the next generation of games, begin to program.
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A universal, dynamic course combines coding, development, students will start with the basics of computer, hardware, combine this knowledge with the concepts of object-oriented programming. Participants will be trained in programming on micro: bit, an interactive handheld computer that they will take home. JavaScript micro: bit helps to determine movement, send messages, create games. Individual students will have to tighten their practical coding skills.
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Participants will learn how to use autonomous robotics using Sphero RVR, a programmable robot that is ready for use immediately after installation. Sphero RVR is a custom bot equipped with a wide range of sensors, a professional-level control system, a powerful engine, and off-road equipment.
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Pupils will launch a gaming YouTube channel, learn how to broadcast their favorite video games, move on to the basics of video production, create audio, visual effects, and an exciting online broadcast. YouTube's Gamecasting & Video Production course is the perfect mix of games, video production, and a host of exciting, real-life skills.
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Video Production: Start Your Own YouTube Channel will teach young people how to create their own online brand. From video blogs to study guides or short films, participants get complete freedom to oversee their online presence. Having studied the basics of preliminary preparation, compositions, adolescents will realize their creative ideas and will shoot on professional equipment. Improving staff with Adobe Premiere software, students will take their projects to the next level.
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Students at Creative Design Studio with Adobe Animate implement their own projects, using bright details, master the fundamental principles of art, animations that are used by game design professionals, will use premium software - Adobe Animate, a set of other Adobe products that reveal their inner vision. By instilling critical thinking skills and composition planning, this course will allow you to build a solid foundation, learn the principles of design, the formation of creative solutions that a future designer needs.
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The 3D Printing & Modeling with Take-Home Printer program includes the development of simple models, the study of the basics of three-dimensional modeling, the practice of the 3D printing process, the development of Autodesk Maya models, the import of a more complex design, and its use as a starting point. While working on the project, students will learn how to maintain a 3D printer, take with them everything they print, acquire skills, tools to continue working.
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Participants will learn the professional design of video games, use popular industry tools. They will begin the week by mastering the stages of creating Maya 3D objects, designing levels in Unreal Engine 4, channeling new skills into developing a well-thought-out world, importing their Maya models into Unreal, setting up a well-thought-out world, adding unique coded elements thanks to the UE4 Blueprints visual scripting system. Participants will supplement the portfolio with their own professionally developed game level.
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Participants at Fortnite Camp & Unreal Engine Level Design will unveil the power of the game development tools used to create it. Epic Games' Unreal Engine will allow you to develop your own levels inspired by Fortnite, discover gameplay strategies, game mechanics, build a team, analyze Fortnite level design. Using new skills to create Battle Royale levels, participants will begin their future as Unreal Engine professionals.
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When developing Unreal Engine 4, participants will create their own world using a world-class photorealistic game engine used to create award-winning game products. Using the Sequencer, an editing, animation tool, participants will create dynamic videos with detailed characters, animations, sounds. By combining their own imagination, knowledge gained, participants will be able to create new intricate stories.
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Students will push the boundaries of skills, create unique games by working with a complete set of tools, Unreal Engine 4, the leading game engine that is used to create award-winning games. Young people will learn how to develop traditional types of games - FPS, platformers, racing games, use Blueprints, a visual programming language, to change, create game events (moving platforms, control points). Refining their design skills, preparing for the start of a career as a game designer, participants will complement the resume with interesting projects.
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The curriculum offers an introduction to virtual reality, Oculus Go - an all-in-one virtual system without connected wires or cords, combined with Unity, a standard game engine. Having created amazing worlds in which you can see, hear, and students will take their projects home, Oculus Go, in order to continue to create and improve their interactive virtual projects.
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Participants will gain practical experience in introducing machine learning, coding skills - one of the most popular in the modern labor market. Having learned the basics, students will move on to logical games, Python, the fastest growing programming language, object-oriented concepts. With a deeper understanding of coding, they will create simple neural networks and prepare for a more advanced machine learning course.
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The program forms an idea of machine learning, the tasks that it performs. Participants use data sets, probabilities, statistics, use tools such as Python, TensorFlow (help computers emulate the work of the brain).
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At the Cybersecurity & Encryption course, young people will learn how to hide information, create secret messages, share plans with their classmates, always staying ahead of potential cyber attacks. Participants will learn how to encrypt data with the help of programs, learn how the principles of cryptography are related to modern cybersecurity, learn functionality, implement algorithms, (SHA, RSA) to ensure the security of modern computer systems.
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Voice Apps for Amazon Alexa & Google Assistant will take you to the next level in voice application development. A unique course will help develop an application for Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant, which plays a voice game that transmits music. Voiceflow programming will allow you to develop a new voice application, post it online.
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Participants will go beyond the basics, go to Java coding with Minecraft. They will change the live code base inside the popular game, create their own tools, blocks, mobs, reveal the capabilities of Java, and acquire the skills to solve critical problems necessary for a future career, personal projects.
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The Code Apps with Java course involves learning the basics of Java, one of the earliest, most current programming languages. Java has many uses, from game development to business applications. Participants from beginner to those preparing for the AP Computer Science exam will be able to hone their Java skills using console applications, programming tasks.
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The curriculum includes the study of the basics of C ++, one of the most important programming languages, applications, covering the stages from system software design to game development. C ++ opens to students a huge world of coding, development, regardless of what they want to create. Using coding skills, creating projects, students will test the growing knowledge of coding problems in an interview format.
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Participants will master C ++ skills, learn how to introduce gameplay images, and create their own arcade games using graphic libraries. Students will focus on the implementation of basic artificial intelligence, keyboard and mouse controls, and will find the interaction points of all the main components of the creation of the game. Participants will prepare for a career in gaming programming, learn how to use the standard edition of Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition to create new projects.
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Students will discover the world of autonomous robotics with Sphero RVR, a durable, versatile, programmable robot that is ready to go right after installation. Designed with individual characteristics in mind, the Sphero RVR has many built-in sensors, a professional-level control system, a powerful engine, and off-road protectors. Sphero RVR is more than your regular programmable bot, it is a new level of interaction between hardware, practical robotics, and engineering.
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Participants in the Robotics Engineering & Coding Lab with VEX course will advance their real robotics skills and learn about the VEX Robotics design system. They will set up, create, connect the base for their robot, will observe how it works. Participants will adapt the robot to solve dynamic, user-driven tasks (obstacle courses), developing teamwork skills. Using VEX Coding Studio, VEX C ++, a language of robotic coding, students will program the bot to perform autonomous tasks (navigating in the maze, stacking, moving objects).
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Students will discover the fast-growing world of 3D printing, create complex 3D models with Autodesk Maya, and design moving parts driven by an engine. The program allows you to track the printing process from start to finish: to study maintenance procedures, compliance with safety standards (replace the filament, clean, prepare the assembly plate for the best possible print). Participants will see how prints take shape layer by layer, plug in engines, see how their designs come to life.
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YouTube is a place where participants can realize their innovative ideas: create video blogs, game broadcasts, study guides to ensure an online presence, and engage in video production. Students will take pictures with professional equipment, use Adobe Premiere to improve their project. Advanced students will improve their skills in Adobe After Effects, combine their creative efforts, creating an interesting channel that will attract subscribers.
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Video Production & Special Effects for YouTube will allow students to explore all stages of video production by planning, frame-up their digital work, collaborate with their colleagues, make a film, and explore professional equipment. Using the capabilities of Adobe Premiere to edit clips, add animations, special effects using Adobe After Effects.
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Java is the most relevant, demanded programming language that will allow you to start the future of a computer scientist, develop basic coding skills, create Java applications, and implement advanced college-level concepts.
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Using Java, participants will learn the basics of programming to create attractive applications, graphic games. Going beyond the interaction with the console, text programs. The priority of visual, user feedback will optimize the user experience. Thanks to graphic manipulations, interactive design, visual implementation, the course will provide a direct understanding of programming.
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3D-printed objects are changing the world, used by many industries - from prosthetics to the creation of rocket engines. Participants will use Autodesk Maya to design, create complex three-dimensional models, use a 3D printer. Participants will learn the best safety and maintenance practices, see how a sample designed by them is created, connect their models to a DC motor, and see how they begin to move.
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Development of moving 3D printed models.
Revealing musical abilities, students will engage in the development of electronic music, explore this constantly expanding genre, which covers many variations. Girls will use professional software, realizing their creative potential, create their own rhythm, polish compositions to the studio level. With electronics, students will explore the world of digital music production.
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Pupils realize amazing images, a full set of creative Adobe products, including Adobe Animate, learn the basics of composition, develop critical thinking skills, creativity, and solve design problems.
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Participants will create perfect pictures, complement the portfolio, learn the principles of digital SLR photography, the basics of editing to improve images of Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop. They will publish edited photos (Instagram), create their own brand or other online presence.
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The course teaches the creation of content for video blogs, study guides, short films, use professional-grade cameras, Adobe software. After learning the basics of filming, editing, participants will launch the YouTube channel, remove their own story, launch the YouTube channel.
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Machine learning methods, although formalized in the 1950s, have only recently begun to have a significant impact. These deep learning methods have shown the best results in the field of diagnostics, imaging, Snapchat filters, natural language processing, Siri, allowing the development of future technologies.
Students will begin to learn Python, Tensorflow, a lot of data to build neural networks, set up reward schemes, process data. Second stage: students will test their skills in the environments used by professional researchers - Deepmind Starcraft 2 Learning Environment.
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Participants will develop application development skills, the result of a two-week team work will be a real product. In the first week, they will learn the basics of application development with Unity, the standard development tool, C #. Having created their UX / UX experience, working on the interaction of coding, technologies that they already own. After learning the basics, participants will work collectively, realizing a common vision. Teenagers will check the code in online repositories, they will be able to actively create versions of the code based on a real project. The final course will be the development of an application or game.
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Cybersecurity professionals are in high demand in today's globally connected, technically oriented labor market. The Cybersecurity Lab: Encryption & Steganography course is aimed at participants planning to work on cryptographic elements, encrypt information, use complex puzzles, ciphers. Students will learn how encryption turns numbers, text, images, sounds into a scrambled stream, combines them again, they will see how time-tested methods protect information today.
Participants will learn methods of hiding, storing information on digital media, hashing algorithms (SHA, RSA), use Linux, and discover aspects of cryptography, security, encryption that provide secure network communication.
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Young people will learn the C ++ syntax, develop games based on 2D graphics, using custom controls throughout the session, while learning this programming language. Next, students will improve the game using gameplay algorithms (finding paths, developing maps). Mastering C ++ will help those who plan to learn the development of games or applications.
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Students will turn to C ++, create their first game, study the similarities in the structure of game code, which elements help to quickly, efficiently introduce new content. This knowledge will become the basis of your own game engine, understanding what code to save when creating the starting point of several projects. Game engines are an integral part of professional game development, allow you to iterate mechanics, balance, bring development to a high level of performance.
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Bentley University offers students several dormitories located on the campus. The buildings have several types of rooms: single, 2-beds, 4-beds.
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In their free time and on weekends children have an entertainment program - they can explore campus and nearby, participate in organized campus fun events by the summer program staff and have lots of fun meeting other students from all over the world.
Bentley University Summer has the most advanced hardware and software. Participants will get access to the latest professional developments, innovative tools from Adobe, Epic Games, Autodesk, VEX, Sphero, Roblox.
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