Alien Terrain | Shape. Trigger. React.

Welcome to the Alien Terrain Lab, where your child codes the logic behind a reactive world, one that simulates alien landscapes, hazardous floor tiles, and programmable terrain features that come to life with code.

In this course, your child isn’t coding a character or a rover; they’re building the environment itself. Using 2D lists and dictionaries, they’ll design a fully interactive level system where each tile has its own type, behaviour and reaction. Lava tiles can burn or be cooled. Collectables can be scanned and picked up. Walls will block paths, while special zones can trigger hidden effects.

This is their first time working with 2D lists, a powerful way to represent a tile-based map, and combining them with functions and data structures to manage how each part of the world behaves. The rover becomes a testing tool: its movements allow them to trigger and test how the environment responds.

By the end of this course, your child will have built a complete alien terrain system that responds to input, updates in real time, and behaves intelligently based on the map design, and will understand how to build, test and extend interactive systems using 2D lists, functions and data-driven logic.

• Programming Constructs (Sequencing, Branching & Looping)
• Variables (Tile Types, Player Stats & Object States)
• Functions (Creating, Calling, Parameters, Arguments & Returning)
• Data Structures (Lists, 2D Lists & Dictionaries)
• Tile Maps (Rendering, Updating & Collision Detection)
• Input Handling (Keyboard Navigation, Scanning & Tool Use)
• User Interface (Collectable Counters & Win Conditions)
• Hazard Systems (Dangerous Tiles, Health Tracking & Fail States)
• Tool Logic (Cooldowns, Usage Limits & Area Effects)
• Code Structure (Level Setup, Movement Checks & Logic Separation)

We know that learning doesn’t always fit neatly into 50-minutes. Some topics take longer to grasp, and sometimes students simply need space to ask questions or work through ideas at their own pace. 

That’s why every FunTech lesson includes an optional 30-minute extension, built in from the start. It’s not just for the student’s benefit; it also gives our expert tutors the time they need to give proper attention and support, without the pressure of rushing off to their next class. 

It means your child can leave each lesson feeling confident, with everything covered in a single session, which is especially helpful for busy families juggling packed schedules. 

In most cases, this built-in time is all that’s needed. On rare occasions, we may recommend a separate prep session, but that’s very much the exception rather than the rule. 

Avatar Lab | Design. Detect. Reflect.

Welcome to Avatar Studio, where your child creates a digital companion that mirrors their every expression. Whether it’s a jelly blob, a floating orb or a grumpy robot, they’ll design their own on-screen avatar and code it to react in real time using face and emotion tracking.

Your child will learn to code with a live webcam input, integrating OpenCV and emotion detection tools like DeepFace and dlib. They’ll use functions, conditionals, dictionaries and data mapping to connect facial expressions to visual outcomes, all while handling real-world input data from the webcam.

They’ll bring their avatar to life with facial expressions that change from happy to sad to surprised, code logic to move features like mouths and eyes, and add customisation options for backgrounds, headgear and body styles, all triggered by what the webcam sees.

By the end of this course, your child will have built a fully interactive avatar that reacts to their emotions in real time, and will understand how to combine live data, AI tools and visual coding to create responsive digital systems.

Note: All face tracking runs locally on your child’s device. No webcam data is stored or shared online.

• Programming Constructs (Sequencing, Branching & Looping)
• Functions (Creating, Calling, Parameters, Arguments & Returning)
• Data Structures (Lists, 2D Lists & Dictionaries)
• Rendering (Shapes, Images & Polygons)
• Face Tracking (OpenCV, Webcam Capture, Face Detection & Mouth Detection)
• Variables (Emotion States, Landmark Points & Confidence Scores)
• Input Handling (Keyboard Keys for Style Switching)
• Customisation (Avatar Appearances & Body Options)
• Animation (Movement Smoothing & Real-Time Reactions)
• Code Structure (Detection Pipeline, Display Logic & Response Flow)

We know that learning doesn’t always fit neatly into 50-minutes. Some topics take longer to grasp, and sometimes students simply need space to ask questions or work through ideas at their own pace. 

That’s why every FunTech lesson includes an optional 30-minute extension, built in from the start. It’s not just for the student’s benefit; it also gives our expert tutors the time they need to give proper attention and support, without the pressure of rushing off to their next class. 

It means your child can leave each lesson feeling confident, with everything covered in a single session, which is especially helpful for busy families juggling packed schedules. 

In most cases, this built-in time is all that’s needed. On rare occasions, we may recommend a separate prep session, but that’s very much the exception rather than the rule.