Registration for EICC’s Virtual Black Rocket Summer Camps is now open!

Registration is now open for Eastern Iowa Community Colleges’ Black Rocket online Summer Camps. EICC is partnering with the national leader in tech education to deliver virtual STEAM camps with more than 20 courses in coding, app design, video game creation, virtual reality, digital arts and more.

The five-day camps are open to youth ages 6 to 14 and are scheduled June – August. Taught by experienced, live instructors, each camp offers a morning or afternoon session lasting three hours. All camps are available via your computer and provide a fun, engaging way for kids to jump-start their future in creative tech.

During each camp, students will benefit from Black Rocket’s six pillars of learning including creativity, technology, make it yourself, peer learning, 21st century skills and project-based activities. Most student-created games and computer-based projects created at the camps will be available to students at home through a protected Black Rocket website. The cost for each camp is $169.

Courses include:

• 3D Game Design with Unity
• App.IO: Make Your First Multiplayer App!
• App Attack!
• Battle Royale: Make Your First Fortnite ® Style Video Game
• Code Breakers
• Code Your Own Adventure! Interactive Storytelling
• eSports Apprentice – Streamers and Gamers
• Inventor’s League – Prototyping for the Future!
• JavaScript Developer Jam
• Make Your First Video Game!
• Make Your First 3D Video Game!
• Maker Labs: Make Your First 3D Creation!
• Minecraft® Animators
• Minecraft® Designers
• UPDATED! Minecraft® Modders
• Minecraft® Redstone Engineers
• Pokémon® Masters: Designers & 3D Makers Unite!
• Python Programmers
• ROBLOX® Coders & Entrepreneurs!
• ROBLOX ® Makers
• Rocket Kart Racers: Design A Mario Kart ® Style Game
• Video Game Animation
• Virtual Reality: The Future is Now
• NEW! Young Authors
• YouTube ® Content Creators
• NEW! YouTube ® FX Masters

These virtual STEAM camps are a great way for kids to learn new skills and keep their minds active during the summer. Plus, parents can enjoy a little free time while their kids have a blast using their imagination and creativity. For more information and to register, visit eicc.edu/summercamp or call toll-free 1-888-336-3907, email eiccinfo@eicc.edu