The Port Jefferson School District hosted an inaugural summer coding camp for Port Jefferson Middle School and Earl L. Vandermeulen High School students. The five-day camp, which took place at Edna Louise Spear Elementary School, was taught by Mr. Robert Farenga. Students were encouraged to hone their skills in educational tools such as Scratch, the block-based visual programming language, to more advanced 2D and 3D cross-platforms such as GDevelop to learn to create animation, PC and mobile games on the open-source game engine. Mr. Farenga was excited to engage the students in the stimulating environment while advancing their critical-thinking skills. As he oversaw two students working together on a basic drop coding project in Scratch, he was brainstorming lessons in writing code to advance the fundamentals in their coding skills and ready them for high school computer science courses.

Date Added: 8/7/2023