4 Unique And Engaging Gaming Summer Camps
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Do you know a kid who loves gaming? Looking for a safe and fun way for them to improve their skills and have a blast? Want to make sure they aren’t just aimlessly playing video games all day? A Gaming Summer Camp is the solution! Gaming summer camps help kids learn new skills (gaming as well as social and leadership skills), and provide a safe environment for them to do so.
What is Gaming?
Gaming, in general, refers to playing any game or activity. In this blog post, we’ll be referring to gaming that involves to playing electronic games, whether through consoles, computers, mobile phones or another medium altogether.
When we hear the word gaming, we often think of someone who plays video games regularly, as a hobby, or even professionally. Although in the beginning gaming was typically a solitary activity, mutiplayer games have made gaming a team activity as well.
Benefits of Gaming
While many people associate gaming with being lazy, addicted, depressed and having poor social skills, this is not the case for most kids. Gaming, like all activities, when taken to the extreme can have harmful effects, but for most participants, they have fun, relax, and even build important life skills.
Gaming improves teamwork and leadership skills, communication skills, problem solving and goal setting abilities, and can improve the resilience of participants. Often in video games, players are working together as a team towards a common goal. They need to think and act quickly, and help others on their team to do the same. Gamers improve their teamwork, leadership and communication skills by working together during the game.
In gaming, players are almost always faced with a challenge. They need to use problem solving and goal setting skills in order to overcome the challenge. Often, things don’t work the first time, so they need to regroup, make a new plan and try again. This cylce not only builds their problem solving skills, but also their resilience. Trying again and again to accomplish a goal and not giving up is a great skill for anyone to develop!
4 Unique and Engaging Gaming Summer Camps
Now that we know a little bit more about gaming, and its benefits, let’s take a closer look at 4 Unique and Engaging Gaming Summer Camps!
Coder Kids offers online and in person camps and classes all about coding and gaming. They offer quality programs at an affordable price, plus their camps and classes have several sessions, so you’re sure to find one that fits your schedule. Learn more about the Coder Kids Mission here.
One great feature of Coder Kids is the variety of gaming summer camps they offer. They have camps that focus just on gaming and digital citizenship (lessons that focus on privacy, etiquette, identity, safety, and team communication), as well as camps that focus on learning to code, create, modify and build in different games.
Coder Kids offers gaming camps for some of the mosts popular video cames out there:
MInecraft (Minecraft Adventure, Minecraft Modding and Minecraft Advanced).
Roblox (Roblox Gamer’s Club, Game Design in Roblox Studio
Fortnite (Fortnite Gamer’s Club, Fortnite Leadership in Action, Fortnite Creative Workshop)
Unity (Unity Game Design}
Esports Camps focus on connecting aspiring gamers with esports coaches and gaming facilities. These camps are designed for players who are more serious about gaming and have had experience playing. Esports Camps center around helping campers improve their individual skills, train as a team and improve mental preparedness and managing emotions.
During an Esports camp, participants will learn to navigate high pressure competitive situations, learn to self-reflect, improve leadership and communication skills and complete fitness basics and preventative exercises (including meditation).
Fleming Tech Camps offer several different gaming summer camps. They have several Minecraft gaming camps for kids from grades 2- 11. Some of these are just about playing, while others focus on building, creating and modding.
They also offer a Competition Gaming summer camp. This camp is designed for campers who are interested in video game tournaments. Campers work individually and in teams on a number of video and computer games, with a focus on: League of Legends, Call of Duty, Overwatch and StarCraft.
Video Game Palooza offers camps for a variety of games. They have gaming camps for Minecraft, Roblox and video game design camps for Unity, Kodu and Kano.
One unique attribute of Video Game Palooza camps, is that the day is divided into 2 sections: Create and Play. In the mornings, during the Create session, campers receive lessons and hands on projects. Duing the Create session, in the afternoons, campers are allowed play to accomplish an objective based game play with each other. They also do team based gameplay as a fun competition.
Conclusion
While there are a lot of different Gaming Summer Camps out there, some are better than others. Be sure you find a camp that fits what you are really looking for. Looking for a variety of camps (gaming and game design) with flexible scheduling? Coder Kids is your best bet! If you are looking to become an esport athlete, Esports Camps might be the best option for you.
Whatever you are searching for, we hope our list of 4 Unique and Engaging Gaming Summer Camps helps you find it!
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