Adventures in Comic Creation

Course Description
Do you like to draw? Do you enjoy making up creative, zany stories and drawing original artwork? Have you ever wanted to star as your own comic strip character or super hero? In this course for the budding storyteller, you will use Planetwide Media's Comic Book Creator™, Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Wacom® Pen Tablets to bring your ideas to life. Morph, liquefy, distort and render a custom collection of images and incorporate them into your comic strip. Pulling it all together, you will import your digital masterpieces and produce a colorful comic strip to amaze and entertain your newfound fans. With the ability to add sounds, animations, and original characters, the sky is the limit.

New! We’ve rebuilt our curriculum from the ground up. Additionally, students will now use the full version of Adobe Photoshop. This junior kids camp also includes Techtivities which may include Guitar Hero III™, Wowwee Robotics™ Roboquad™ activities, Dance-Dance-Revolution™ and supervised outside play—nurturing a balanced summer camp for children ages 7-10.

Who should take this course?
This summer children’s camp is perfect for active and imaginative younger students wanting to explore a camp in digital art and introductory graphic design. Students will flex their artistic muscles with this fun, creative, hands-on course. If you are just beginning to experiment with digital technology, this course is a great choice. New and returning students will find the right challenge with our brand new curriculum.

How We Teach
iD Tech Camps students receive the highest caliber technology education any summer camp has to offer! Students in this youth summer camp will be able to move along faster and more independently, or collaborate utilizing our customized lessons—while still receiving our gold standard 1-on-1 instruction (average 6 students per staff). Using the latest in hardware and software, our all-adult staff works hands-on with each student from project theory to completion (you won’t find counselors-in-training at iD). It’s time to unleash your internalDrive - Welcome to iD! Find out more

Repeating this course over several weeks?
Students ages 7-10 will often repeat this summer computer camp course over several weeks. Our new curriculum is designed to allow the students to move along at their own pace with customized lessons for a fun and appropriate challenge. Below is an example of how your student’s skill level may increase if they take this course for multiple weeks.

Trying several different courses?
Create a customized “package” allowing you to sample many different topics. Below are some suggested course sequences for students attending multiple weeks of this computer camp for kids. Feel free to customize your own package.

Software and Hardware Used in this Kids Computer Course:

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