Cartoon Network USA NBA All Star Code Your Story Mini Camp
To celebrate the 2017 NBA (National Basketball Association) All-Star Game, Cartoon Network USA, NBA Cares (the social responsibility division of the NBA) and 826National (a charity that helps young people with their creative writing skills) and Big Class (a New Orleans young writers non-profit organisation) teamed up to host a storywriting and coding 3-day mini-camp for 17 students (third, fourth and fifth graders) titled “Code Your Story”. The 3-day event has held at Sylvanie Williams College Prep (SWCP) in Central City, New Orleans, Louisiana.
At the mini-camp, kids got to create and animate their story by using the Scratch Programming Language, a simplified school-approved programming language that teaches kids the basics of computer programming. The students who took part in mini-camp received one-on-one tuition and support. Cartoon Network has offered graphical assets to the Scratch Foundation, which includes characters and backdrops from We Bare Bears and The Powerpuff Girls, by using these assets, kids can create their own stories by using their favourite cartoon characters.
Special guests that attended the coding event include basketball players Tim Frazier (New Orleans Pelicans), Ruth Riley (San Antonio Stars), voice actor Greg Cipes (Beast Boy from Teen Titans Go! and the original Teen Titans series) as well as executives from Cartoon Network and the NBA. Cartoon Network and the NBA teamed up to empower kids’ creativity with the use of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics). Cartoon Network assembled a STEAM Board of Advisors last December which includes experts from MIT Media Lab, Lego, X and DIY Co. Cartoon Network has also donated $30 million towards President Obama’s Computer Science for All initiative, teamed up MIT Media Lab’s Scratch Foundation (where Cartoon Network president – Christina Miller serves as a board member), worked with DIY Co. and got involved with Google’s Made with Code initiative.
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We celebrated #NBAAllStar by joining @nbacares @826National @BigClassNOLA to host a story-telling camp for New Orleans youth. #CodeYourStory pic.twitter.com/XVy416tiNj
— Cartoon Network (@cartoonnetwork) February 18, 2017
To kick off #NBAAllStar weekend, we collaborated with @NBA @cartoonnetwork and @826National to host a coding and storytelling mini-camp! pic.twitter.com/L40orRyWhF
— Big Class (@BigClassNOLA) February 17, 2017
TTG star @GregCipes partnered with @nbacares @Timfraz23 @ruthriley00 to teach kids about coding.
And Waffles. 😂 #CodeYourStory #NBAAllStar pic.twitter.com/0B4a9Hbcku
— Cartoon Network (@cartoonnetwork) February 17, 2017