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Digital Summer School
Enroll a child in summer school or not? BDG's Digital Summer School is back to bring a vibrant and enriching experience to teenagers during their summer break. We aim to make thei...
What you'll gain
- ✓ Basics of programming
- ✓ Basics of marketing
- ✓ Graphic design skills
- ✓ Improving English
✓ Free consultation · Certificate on completion · Practical learning · Certificate-ready · BDG since 2009
Duration
2 months
Format
Offline
Level
Beginner
Starts
Jun 05, 2024
Certificate
On completion
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Who can you become?
Enroll a child in summer school or not?
BDG's Digital Summer School is back to bring a vibrant and enriching experience to teenagers during their summer break. We aim to make their vacations brighter, more engaging, and filled with exciting discoveries. Digital Summer School serves as a platform for professional guidance, self-discovery, and the overall development of teenagers. Over two months, participants will delve into the fundamentals of programming, design, and marketing, and enhance their English communication. Tailored for students aged 11-16, Digital Summer School caters to those intrigued by digital professions, offering a space for fresh exploration in a captivating and progressive environment during the summer holidays. Participants will be divided into 2 age groups (11-14 and 14-16). The program encompasses three primary areas: programming, design, and marketing. Through engaging in games and hands-on activities, participants will grasp the fundamentals of these professions, create their own games, develop brand elements, and learn how to effectively present products or skills. Simultaneously, trainers will focus on identifying participants' interests, fostering self-expression, and honing communication and presentation skills. The English lessons integrated into the program aim to enhance spoken English and master professional vocabulary. Thanks to English lessons, they will improve their spoken English and master professional English vocabulary. Digital Summer School classes are organized from Monday to Thursday, 14:00-18:00. Most of the classes are held in the BDG office (H. Kochar 4). We will have thematic visits to various centers and companies (Armath Lab, Cafesjian Center, Planetarium, etc.).Individual consultation
before and after the course
Who is this course for
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11-16-year-old schoolchildren
Digital Summer School-իis intended for schoolchildren aged 11-16 who are interested in digital professions and are looking for an opportunity to spend summer vacations in an interesting and developing environment.
Program
- Basic computer concepts and terminology
- Device and software versioning
- Introduction to different operating systems
- General introduction to the design concept
- Colors, color types, and properties
- Forms
- What is marketing?
- Marketing history
- The role and importance of marketing
- Who is a marketing specialist, and what functions do they have?
Participants discover each other's interests and share interesting facts using simplest English expressions through the game "BINGO"
- Creating simple documents, tables, and slides
- Introduction to Google Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides
- Introducing the features of online editors
- Group work with documents
- The technical side of design
- Styling on paper
- Features of the characters' bodies
- Social Media Marketing (SMM)
- Search Engine Marketing (SEO)
- Mobile Marketing
- Email Marketing
Creative Sketching Challenge - learning English by drawing. Participants take turns listening and drawing a word or phrase related to design, and programming, while others try to guess.
- What is programming?
- The role, importance, and possibilities of programming
- Differentiation of programming languages
- Analysis of space, space phenomena, and objects for board game design
- Character design
- Characteristics of character features
- Portraying the character's character through forms
- Security of personal data
- Creating strong passwords
- How to be vigilant and avoid phishing
- Copyright on digital platforms
- Prototype Challenge - Each team is randomly assigned a theme or genre for their playable character (eg. futuristic robot, magical creature).
- Teams should choose materials (paper, markers, glue) that best represent their game character.
- Teams come up with ideas for their character based on their appearance, personality, and abilities, and present it in English. The most creative team receives a small gift.
- Introduction to Scratch
- Create an account in Scratch
- Exploring the Scratch program interface
- Creating and maintaining a new project
- Adding Sprites and Backgrounds
- Space-themed board game card styling
- Styling rules
- Work with simple and complex forms
- Teams fill in English words presented on pre-made marketing template cards. These templates will include ads and product descriptions.
- Word Chain Challenge - Improve vocabulary and spelling skills. One of the participants writes a word. The next one should write a word that begins with the last letter of the previous word. If a player repeats or misspells a word, he is out. The game continues until one player remains.
- Familiarize yourself with the operation of basic blocks
- Moving Motion blocks on the Stage with Sprites
- Changing the direction and speed of sprites
- Character design in the program in the 2D domain
- Flat characters, their study, and analysis from popular cartoons
- Character adaptation in an environment
- What is content?
- Content types
- The role of content in marketing
- Features of content on digital platforms
- Creating content for our product
- A descriptive game about the participants' favorite cartoon characters and their super abilities
- Kahoot: Gameshow Quiz - Marvels, Power Rangers
- Using Event blocks
- Creating interactive stories using Dialogue and Text sprite blocks
- Digital colors and transitions, psychology of color, highlighting character traits through color
- Color regions
- Experiments: getting colors on paper with different techniques
- Mixtures of colors
- Creating color combinations on paper, digitizing them
- The role of visual content in marketing
- Colors in marketing
- Visual content creation toolkit
- Creating visual content for our product
Gameshow Quiz - a quiz on the basics of programming and Scratch -Kahoot
- Understand the mechanics of game creation
- Creating game elements using the Sprite editor
- Store points using variables
- Types of boxes
- Design on a box, design, application on a mockup
- 2 game environments design
- What is marketing research for?
- Types of marketing research
- Conducting research for our produc
- Types of illustrations
- Creating illustrations in any 3 styles for game environments
- Teams write a social media post for their game character.
- They should include relevant hashtags in their posts to increase visibility and engagement.
- Creating animations using animation and control blocks
- Adding sound effects and background music
- Creating visual effects using graphic effects blocks
- Development of a game logo
- Rules for creating a letter
- Creating a text part on playing cards
- Finalizing the game box - adding texts
- What is a marketing campaign?
- Introduction to international best practices
- Development of a marketing campaign plan
- Developing a marketing campaign plan based on your own product
- Teams create their own brand for their game character, including a name, logo, and slogan
- They can include several visual elements (color, shape) in their design.
- Using sensory blocks to ask and answer questions, creating multiple-choice questions
- Creating a scoring system for the quiz
- How to prepare a presentation
- What components are needed to create it?
- Choice of colors
- Rules for presenting works in one style
- Presentation structure
- Presentation development
- Presenting a presentation
- Exercises for working with the audience / eye-contact
- Adjusting the pace and rhythm of speech
- Sound control
- Familiarity with math blocks
- Creating a simple calculator using math blocks
- Discussion, analysis
- Choosing themes to generate characters from
- What is blogging?
- Platform selection
- Creating a blog
- Designing 3 characters of Armenian origin
- AI generation through keywords
- What is storytelling?
- The Application of Storytelling in Marketing
- We develop Storytelling skills
- Learn about Loops and Repetition operators
- Creating repeating patterns using the Loops operator
- Repeat until the Break block is encountered
- Creating environments for characters
- Generate environments based on the period the character lived in
- Combination of details and color gamuts using AI
- Mime - combining learning English with mime to easily remember marketing concepts and describe customer behavior.
- Kahoot - Gameshow Quiz
- Familiarity with conditional block
- Using an if-then-else conditional block
- Creating a guessing game
- Development of presentation style
- Collection of completed works
- Creating a presentation on the website
- A study of buyer psychology
- Creating a buyer persona based on your product
- Understand programming errors
- Debugging and Troubleshooting techniques
- Testing and adjustment
- Presentation for a small audience
- Preparation for team presentation
- Portfolio
- Understand the structure of a platformer game
- Creating platformer game elements using the Sprite editor
- Creating game physics
- Design analysis - discussion
- Work on the website portfolio
Course details
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Schedule
Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday
2 pm - 6 pm
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Payment
For each module (3 modules)
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Junior-friendly
Yes
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Certificate
On completion
50+ lessons
3 modules
Course trainers
Mariam Abrahamyan
Head of marketing department, Management psychologist
With over 5 years of marketing expertise, Mairam has collaborated with more than 150 local businesses. Additionally, Mairam is one of the creators of entertainment board games “ԽԱՂ...
Meri Jilavyan
English trainer
Mary Jilavyan has about 5 years of experience in teaching English. During those years of work, she developed her own teaching style, that pays attention to the development of commu...
Shushan Tonoyan
Graphic Designer
“My motivation is to motivate others. It’s truly fascinating when you can spark love and interest in a new profession within people. I deeply enjoy seeing my students succeed; that...
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Certificates
Certificates you can receive
Depending on the course format and results, students can receive one of BDG's certificate types.
- ✓ Verified BDG certificate
- ✓ QR / signature-ready format
- ✓ Armenian & English certificate design
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Participation
For students who actively participate in the course learning process.
For active participationCompletion
For students who complete the course requirements and finish the program.
For successful completionExcellence
For students who complete the course with outstanding results and strong performance.
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A co-branded certificate for selected HR and partner-certified programs.
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