Learn the idea
A topic, explanation, small test, guided build, and clear learning goal. Lessons connect so knowledge grows as a web rather than a pile of tricks.
The class gives the idea.
School of Code / Computer Lab
The Computer Lab supports the school's learning path.
Classes introduce ideas in a planned sequence. The Computer Lab gives students guided time to use those ideas more deeply, follow a problem, and make a project their own.
Structured freedom
Enough direction to keep moving. Enough room to invent.
Give it a life
Make a choice, try a strange feature, diagnose a failure, rebuild a weak section, or prepare the project for a demonstration.
The lab gives the idea a life.
What students may do
A useful menu of next moves.
Students do not need a new assignment while the current project still has questions inside it.
- Finish a class project
- Rebuild it differently
- Add a feature
- Test a strange idea
- Repair a bug
- Follow a challenge card
- Prepare a demonstration
- Help another student after trying independently
The idea changes form
One lesson can lead to very different Lab systems.
How Does the Screen Know Where You Are?
Known position, x/y movement, boundaries, and visible debugging.
How Does a Game Decide?
True/false questions, score rules, branches, and reliable reset.
What Question Is the Sensor Answering?
Measurement, thresholds, decisions, action, and rechecking.
Computer Lab project pages
Missions, required systems, checkpoints, and challenge cards.
Scratch & Game Design
Computer Lab Project
The Suspiciously Emotional Space Pet
Create a virtual pet whose mood, energy, and trust change according to events and time.
Open project
Scratch & Game Design
Computer Lab Project
Grandma's Intergalactic Taxi
Navigate a space taxi between coordinate-based pickups and destinations.
Open project
Scratch & Game Design
Computer Lab Project
Astro-Chicken Rescue
Collect drifting space chickens while tracking several positions and avoiding danger zones.
Open project
Robotics
Computer Lab Project
Conductors and Insulators Lab
Build a careful test circuit or simulation and classify materials from observable evidence.
Open project
Robotics
Computer Lab Project
Robot Patrol Challenge
Design a patrol that repeats, senses a changed world, and uses feedback to recover.
Open projectInstructor role
Help without taking over the keyboard.
The instructor can narrow the problem, ask for a prediction, point to evidence, suggest a test, or offer a challenge card. The student still makes consequential choices and explains the result.
A bug is information. Lab time gives students enough breathing room to read it.
What the Computer Lab is notRandom gaming, passive video watching, uncontrolled browsing, or unstructured device time. Students arrive to build, test, debug, change, explain, improve, or demonstrate something connected to the School of Code program.
The school comes before the Lab.
Ask how planned classes and guided project time may fit a student.