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| Minecraft Redstone Engineer |
| Age guide: 9 to 12 |
| 98% recommended |
Digital Engineering using Minecraft
Redstone is Minecraft’s equivalent of electricity. We start by teaching how to use this energy to create the different logic gates. Your child will then learn how these logic gates can be combined to create different circuits and complex electronic items such as calculators, elevators and more. They’ll use all the skills they learn to design and build an amazing adventure course full of challenges, surprises and puzzles that players must navigate through!
Pre-requisites
- Some of knowledge of Minecraft
What your child will learn
- Redstone (Comparison to Electricity, OFF and ON States, Power)
- Logic Gates (NOT, OR, AND, NOR, NAND, XOR)
- Circuits (Clocks, Pulse, Memory Cells)
- Minecraft Commands (Teleport, Spawn)
- Console Commands and Command Blocks
- Building an Obstacle Course
About this camp
At our Minecraft Engineering day camp, your child will be taken on a journey through the fundamentals of electronics. We’ll start with the simple concept of binary, where any two states (like up and down, or on and off) can be represented by a 0 or 1.
Using truth tables, a mathematical table used for logic, they will learn about the different logic gates and their possible outputs. Once these gates have been mastered, they’ll learn how to combine logic gates to create real-world applications, giving them a deeper understanding of how everything reduces back down to Binary.
As the course progresses the circuits will become more complex. Toward the end of the course your child’s imagination will go into overdrive as they fully comprehend the limitless possibilities of being an electronic inventor. These skills will be used to design and implement an adventure course that family and friends must navigate through – come early as these are often quite challenging!
Minecraft Engineerng (with Redstone) allows the freedom to build and experiment with electronic circuits that in the real world would be a health and safety challenge!
Requirements for Virtual Course
Internet speed requirements
- 5Mbps download speed and 3Mbps upload speed (per user)
- If using FunTech Virtual Machine at least 6Mbps download speed and 6Mbps upload speed; lower speeds will work, but the quality of the remote computer experience will deteriorate (per user)
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Minimum system requirements
- OS: 64-bit Windows 7 or later or OS X 10.9 or later
- Processor: Intel Core i3-3210 / AMD A8-7600 APU or equivalent
- Memory: 8GB (8,192MB) RAM
- Free HDD space: 2GB
- Graphics requirements known as GPU (Graphics Processing Unit): any GPU that supports OpenGL 4.4
- Hardware: keyboard, mouse, and headset with microphone
FAQs
Absolutely. We accept a number of childcare voucher schemes. Please see our childcare voucher page for more details.
Our summer camps last for 5 days, Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm (we do not offer single or 3 day camps). There is an option for early drop off (8:30am) and/or late pick up (5:30pm) each day.
Our residential camps vary slightly as we welcome students to check-in on Sunday at 5:00pm, check-out is Friday at 5:30pm. There is an option to extend your stay until Sunday at 2:30pm.
Please note: some locations’ start/end times may be vary: please check your welcome pack for specific details.
For Day and Residential Camps lunch break is 90 minutes and comes with the option for some activities. These vary from location to location, so please check the individual location page for more details.
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We understand that your summer plans and child’s passion change. So, our Camp Swap gives you the flexibility to change your camp as many times as you like.
| Virtual Camps | |
|---|---|
| To another virtual course or date | FREE |
| From virtual to location | Pay difference |
| From virtual to residential | Pay difference |
| Day Camps | |
|---|---|
| To another location or date (same course) | FREE |
| To another higher course fee | Pay difference |
| To another lower course fee | Difference credited |
| From location to virtual | Difference credited |
| From location to residential | Pay difference |
| Residential Camps | |
|---|---|
| From residential to location | Difference credited |
| From residential to virtual | Difference credited |
Camp Swap are available up to two weeks prior to camp start date and subject to availability.