Before 12-year-old Eduardo enrolled in Boston University Academy’s (BUA) video game design camp this summer, he knew some programming basics. But he left camp able to design and create his own video games.
“I taught myself coding before the camp, but just the basic stuff,” says Eduardo, a student at a Boston middle school whose favorite game is Minecraft. “The camp made harder coding easy to understand.”
In late August, 34 middle schoolers (the majority being from the Boston Public Schools) enrolled in BUA’s inaugural video game design camp. Held virtually over Zoom, the weeklong camp was designed and taught by Abbas Attarwala, a College of Arts & Sciences lecturer in computer science. Helping him were a handful of BUA high school students, themselves experienced coders, who served as camp mentors.
Christos Kolovos, head of school at BUA, came up with…
