What they learn
In this stage, children pick up these strengths with their hands.
Block coding that moves a character, keeps score, and runs many things at once.
A controller she built drives the program on screen — tilt it, press it, bridge it, and the program notices.
She rebuilds her program out of blocks she named herself; its parts signal each other and she designs the whole.
Read the error, halve the problem, change one thing, and write down what changed.
Four courses, deepening step by step
A course runs six months — it ends in one finished build, and closes with a Demo Day where children introduce what they made to family in English. The first course assumes no experience at all.
Programs in block coding — from one character to score and many things at once.
A controller she built drives the program on screen: where code meets her hands.
She rebuilds the program from blocks she named, with parts that signal each other.
The computer says the English she wrote. If nobody understands, she rewrites it.
English at this stage
Immersion deepens at this stage. Designing games and building the controller that drives them all flows in English, and children start explaining what they made in full English sentences. Because it’s English used while making, it becomes their own far faster than textbook English.
How we handle AI
At MAKER children don’t use AI — the code is theirs. Once, in the last course, the teacher simply shows how a rule she wrote differs from a machine’s guess made from examples. There are no child accounts, no cloud services and no data a child uploads. Privacy and digital citizenship begin here too — questions like “the camera sees the room — what’s okay to photograph?”
What they walk away with
One game that grows a step every course, the controller she built, her code printed in colour and film of it running — and a Demo Day where a real person tries her program out.
Class details
Shall your child start with MAKER?
Just tell us your child’s grade and interests and Adriana will personally say whether MAKER is the right fit and where to start.
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