Mini Coder - Minecraft Edition
Game Developer With visual game development software, (That's a fancy way of saying a kind of video game for making video games,) even the youngest kids can learn the basic building blocks of programming. Mini Programmers Classes are full of fun, giggles and wonder. & kids build games that they can share with their friends.

Pocket Sized Inventors
Like Inventors Club but with projects appropriate for the younger aged student, this class gives Pocket Sized Inventors kids the chance to see what technologies they like. It's a smorgasbord and they get to try a little bit of everything. They will use code to turn on lights. Build a game, engineer cardboard mechanics, make circuits, run robots. They will make a web page, use graphic design tools to do some pretty amazing art & Learn to do amazing animation. & more...

Minecraft Mod Madness
Minecraft is a wonderful environment for learning code. Children who already love building in Minecraft, love the power that coding gives them. But also, Minecraft makes coding seem easy. When children write and run code in Minecraft the results are both immediate and very visual. This makes understanding abstract concepts seem concrete. Please not this is a coding class, not a Minecraft playing class.

Inventors Club
This class gives Ripcoder kids the chance to see what technologies they like. It's a smorgasbord and they get to try a little bit of everything. They will use code to turn on lights. Build a game, engineer cardboard mechanics, make circuits, run robots. They will make a web page, use graphic design tools to do some pretty amazing art & Learn to do amazing animation.

Wild Wild Web
In Wild Wild Web we go retro, we go wild and we go live. Students express themselves by building a fully functioning website with cool fonts, cool (or not) colours, pictures, videos, animation and links that they can show their friends and family. We start with html & learn to upload onto the web with an ftp program. We get fancy with style sheets. We get even fancier with javascript. By the time we move into php your site will be wilder than Annie Oakley with a six-shooter. This is a really fun class and ideal for creative students.

Lua for Roblox
Roblox is an online gaming platform that allows users to build games for themselves and others to play. If you have not heard about it, your children have. With more than 164 million players, and over 4 million young game developers, Roblox is brilliant for encouraging children to learn to code. In fact some young developers have become millionaires. Roblox games are created with Roblox Studio, Roblox's game creation tool. Although this tool makes it possible to do very complex things, it is also easy to use for a beginner. The Roblox game engine uses the Lua programming language, which is simple to learn and to use, powerful and widely used.

Lua for Roblox - Advanced
Roblox is an online gaming platform that allows users to build games for themselves and others to play. If you have not heard about it, your children have. With more than 164 million players, and over 4 million young game developers, Roblox is brilliant for encouraging children to learn to code. In fact some young developers have become millionaires. Roblox games are created with Roblox Studio, Roblox's game creation tool. Although this tool makes it possible to do very complex things, it is also easy to use for a beginner. The Roblox game engine uses the Lua programming language, which is simple to learn and to use, powerful and widely used.

Introduction to Python
Introduction to Python is designed to teach core programming concepts and is ideal for students studying or intending to study computer science for the leaving cert. You will learn computational thinking, algorithm design and more advanced concepts such as data types, global & static variables, classes and OOP programming.

GameWorks
From Retro games to modern classics, this course is all about Gaming. We will build 2D & 3D, VR & AR games, explore game engines including Roblox, Godot, Unity, CRYENGINE, and Unreal Engine.

7 Weeks Robotics and Engineering Course - AI Mouse Trap.
Students will work in groups of 2 or 3 to Design and Build a ridiculously impractical High-tech, ( and hopefully humane,) Robotic AI Mouse Trap which they will take with them at the end of the course.

• Introduction to Arduino - Turning on the Lights and Initial sketches of ideas.
• Arduino Inputs, Servos, Buttons, Sensors, Motor Controller.
• Simple Machines - Gears, Pulleys, Levers, Potential Energy. Designing, building, and testing the mechanics of the Trap.
• 3D printing - Designing and printing small parts.
• Fun with AI -- Teaching the computer to recognise a Mouse (rodent, not computer mouse.)
• Putting it all together.

Private After School Lessons
For students who are very serious about coding, a private or semi-private class is a great option. The content of these lessons are tailored to the interest of the student, whether to help with a school coding course or just a very strong interest in a particular area. Classes generally run for 1 hour a weeks.

semi - Private After School Lessons
For students who are very serious about coding, a private or semi-private class is a great option. The content of these lessons are tailored to the interest of the student, whether to help with a school coding course or just a very strong interest in a particular area. Classes generally run for 1 hour a weeks. Semi private lessons can be arranged for 2 friends or siblings

Birthday Party
We have some brilliant party packages available including Minecraft, Roblox, Inventors and Girl Power. Our parties are cool, unusual, super-fun and - don't tell the kids.. educational.