Minecraft Club for Kids: Design a Video Game

Already a Minecraft fan? Become a pro! Use your skills of creativity, collaboration and problem solving to design worlds, build projects and install mods.

Minecraft Club for Kids: Design a Video Game

Program Details

Take your Minecraft skills up a notch at the STEAMLabs Minecraft Pro Club! Participants use their considerable enthusiasm for Minecraft to extend their creative, collaborative, and problem solving skills. The learning is kid-driven, with projects defined by the kids as a group. This is a multi-week Minecraft program that manages the progress arc of the participant projects. Parents are encouraged to attend on the final class of each round for the showcase of everything they’ve made.

What's included

Skills Learned

  • Install Mods
  • Set up a Minecraft Server
  • Create Redstone circuits and contraptions
  • Create their own mods with MCEdit and the Java programming language
  • 3D printing objects designed in Minecraft
  • Laser cutting objects designed in Minecraft
  • Computercraft – programmable computers within Minecraft
  • WorldEdit – commands to create complex structures
  • Citizens – add NPCs and program them to talk and interact with players

Pricing

$210 / 7 week program
$270 / 7 week program (+ optional $60 robotics starter kit)

We offer an optional $60 robotics kit that you can use to take your project home and continue experimenting with it. This kit includes several basic parts to complete a robotics project and can be reused for future programs at STEAMLabs and beyond! If your child is interested in exploring robotics in this class and using it in their project, this kit can also be purchased afterwards with the instructor.

Upcoming dates

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Frequently Asked Questions

Youth

What Should I Bring?

- Lunch & afternoon snack (or sign up to purchase catered lunch & snacks) - Water bottle with your name on it - Weather appropriate clothing + supplies for venturing out to the park on break (sunhat, suncream, warm layers, rain coat etc.) - Any medications or epipens with instructions

How Do I Sign Up for Before & After Care?

1. Before and after care is bookable by the hour each day of camp; purchase as little or as much you need 2. Select the program(s) you would like to enroll your camper in through our enrollment portal. Follow prompts to add on extras like before/after care & lunches, complete forms and process payment. 3. Repeat for additional campers.

Already have a robotics kit you want to reuse?

If your child has a kit from a previous program that they would like to disassemble to reuse kit parts, please sign up for the program without kit at check out.

Is financial aid available?

Yes. Individuals can apply for a scholarship.
Information for specific scholarships is listed on each individual program page.

How do I get there?

Please visit our contact page in order to see a list of directions.
Please double check where your specific program is located before the start date.

What happens if I miss a class?

Unfortunately, we are unable to provide make up sessions when classes are missed.

What’s your cancellation policy?

10% fee when you cancel more than a month before program start date.
50% fee when you cancel between 1-4 weeks before program start date.
No refund for cancelations within a week before program start date.