The end of the academic year is around the corner and as every year, most parents will be thinking of ways to occupy gainfully their children’s time during the long summer holidays while respecting a reasonable budget. With extremely high temperature in UAE during summer, the safest choice goes towards indoor activities that would match your kids interests but also teach and challenge them.
What better way to solve this problem with Apple Summer camp, a four-day FREE workshop held in Apple Stores in Mall of Emirates, Dubai Mall and Yas Mall, Abu Dhabi over four consecutive weeks in July and August .
Apple Camp is designed to help sparkle the creativity of kids aged 8 to 12 through amusing and hands-on projects from exploring music and coding to making movie and art or even design. At Apple Summer Camp, kids and their creativity are the focus and each workshop is tailored to get them thinking, learning and creating— all while having fun.
And to make sure parents are not missing bonding with their kids, this year -and exclusively at the Dubai Mall Store, Apple will be running a family camp every weekend for kids and their guardians around the interesting topic of “biomimicry in Design” empowering them to explore, design and create art, based on nature. These 90 minutes series will be highlighting a local artist every week and focus on how designers use influences from nature to improve their design.
What’s the program?
Creating Your Own Song with GarageBand
In this 3-day session, kids ages 8–12 explore how to build their own song. They’ll learn rhythm basics, practice making beats, and experiment with Smart Instruments to create a melody in GarageBand for iPad. On the final day, Campers will celebrate their new skills by sharing their song with the group. Devices will be provided.
Designing Your Dream Park with iPad
In this 3-day session, kids ages 8–12 learn design skills to imagine a park for their community. They’ll go on a short walk to gather inspiration and take photos of materials, colors, and textures. Then they’ll sketch their ideas in the Procreate app using iPad with Apple Pencil to bring their design to life. On the final day, they’ll present their park to the group. Devices will be provided.
Coding Fundamentals and Programming Robots
In this 3-day session, kids ages 8–12 explore fun activities to learn how to code Sphero robots. They’ll start with coding fundamentals like commands, loops, and functions, then use blocks of code to create a program using the Sphero Edu app for iPad. On the final day, Campers will program lights, sounds, and animations to tell their own story starring Sphero. Devices will be provided.
Directing Your Own Movie with Clips and iMovie
In this 3-day session, kids ages 8–12 discover how to create fun video footage using iPad. They’ll start with fundamentals of moviemaking like experimenting with camera shots in the Clips app and drawing ideas on storyboards in Keynote. On the final day, they’ll apply their skills to make a captivating movie trailer using iMovie, and they’ll celebrate their creations. Devices will be provided.
Registration for Kids Apple Camp and family camp for Summer 2019 starts on June 17th.
Register here.
