Junior Game Creators is a family of fun, educational clubs and workshops with inbuilt social impact. Designed to kickstart and develop an interest in computer science through video games our reach enables diversity. Our sessions and clubs are where code meets the creative arts.
Junior Game Creator Workshops are run in schools, libraries and other venues as well as in our mobile class rooms known as the Gamewagons ™ .
If there’s not a workshop nearby, or if you can’t wait until the next one, we can bring Junior Game Creators to you! Using our state-of-the-art Gamewagon vehicles, we can run a workshop for up to eight children, right on your doorstep! Or we can operate from a local venue or in your house as needed. We bring all the technology and your children just need bring their creative genius!
Online Membership
If you cannot attend one of our workshops in person then we have a fun online computer science club for budding Junior Game Creators. Each month you will receive cool computer science projects. If you know a budding game developer our monthly projects will encourage their digital creativity and give your kids real projects to nurture their interest in computer science in a fun and entertaining way.
Junior Game Creators is for anyone who wants to look deeper into what makes the games they play.
Over the course of our sessions in person and online they’ll learn about what makes games work. We then hand over the creation tools to our gamers. There is more to making games than might meet the eye and code is the cement that joins all the creative elements together.
We task our Junior Game Creators with designing their own versions of games they love to play in Scratch, the programming software that is now part of the national computing curriculum.
Once they master Scratch they can LEVEL Up and try our advanced content where we use an industry standard development tool called Construct. With the ability to publish their games on many devices, the world then becomes their oyster!
Our Five2One model for providing sustainable social impact is why we started our mission back in 2014.
We call it Five2One because for every five schools that have a parent paid after school club we support schools less privileged on the JGC Academy for free. We provide access to quality workshops, tutorials and clubs for children with less advantaged backgrounds at no cost. This means our business will improve diversity and inclusion by creating digital skills for all.
From 2014 to 2017, we have grown and taught over 4,500 children and counting. All we ask is you start an after school club so we can continue to provide sustainable activities to children at schools that may be less fortunate than yourself.
Kids are constantly using technology today, but how many are learning to create it?
Every primary student should have the opportunity to learn computer science. The recent changes in the national curriculum have recognised the need and ability for children to start early.
The basics of coding help nurture creativity and problem-solving skills, and prepare students for a wide variety of future careers.
Junior Game Creators is more than just about code. Each session is a super fun group learning experience.
Everyone works towards a common goal, in teams, on challenges that will stretch their creativity in art, design, maths, problem solving, team work and communication.
In the same way that learning to read enables learning, learning to code opens up a world of exploration and opportunity.
Learning computer science helps nurture problem-solving skills, logic and creativity.
Starting early gives students a foundation for success in any 21st-century career path and makes the transition to secondary school less intimidating.
By using games as a focus even the most difficult concepts are no longer barriers but simply a way to a desired result.
