FUZE Holiday Club - coding and games workshop (7-10yr olds)

Ever wondered how your favourite video games are actually made? Step inside the FUZE Game Studio at the Science Oxford Centre this summer and go from gamer to game creator!

The Science Oxford Centre will be hosting the team from FUZE Technologies Ltd at the Science Oxford Centre for an exciting holiday club where children aged 7-10 years can learn the fundamentals of coding guided by expert tutors and fun, engaging projects, all in a welcoming, friendly and relaxed environment.

Forget boring spreadsheets and walls of text. FUZE use the Nintendo Switch and real physical keyboards to teach you how to write actual code by building, tweaking, and playing video games. If you can type, you can build a game!

What You’ll Do (The Fun Stuff)

• Code Your Own Visuals: Learn how to blast lasers, change colours, spawn hundreds of retro sprites, and design your own game worlds.

• Control the Physics: Want your character to jump higher? Want to change gravity so objects float away? You control the rules of the universe with just a few keystrokes.

• Hack and Mod: We'll show you how to dig into existing game code, tweak the variables, and completely change how the game plays. Make yourself invincible, change the speed, or create total chaos!

The "Secret" Learning (What Parents Love)

While it feels like pure play, your young developers are actually mastering the exact same logic used by professional software engineers worldwide:

• The Magic of Variables: Turning a mathematical variable into a player's "High Score" or "Remaining Lives."

• Loops & Logic: Using conditional code (If/Then statements) to make a game recognize when a player hits an obstacle or scores a goal.

• Problem Solving & Debugging: Learning to think like a scientist. When a line of code doesn't work, you'll hunt down the bug, fix it, and celebrate the win.

No experience needed! Whether you’ve never typed a line of code in your life or you’re already a coding wizard, our tutors will have you making things move, jump, and explode on screen in no time.

FUZE Staff are experienced with ASD Children and create a warm environment in which all children can feel safe and encouraged.

Please note:

• Please bring a (named) packed lunch and water bottle, and named Medic*tion if required.

• Pick-up and drop-off will be organised via the School Entrance of the Science Oxford Centre (please see Floorplan below).

Access

Science Oxford welcomes all children to our events. If your child has additional needs, please complete the booking form with more information or email us on [email protected] to see how we can best support your child to make the most of their time with us.

At this time we cannot accept childcare vouchers and we are not part of the Tax-Free Childcare scheme.

Science Oxford Centre visitor information here.

Here are links to our Accessible Resources to help prepare for your visit, including our Virtual Tour and Centre Floorplan Map.

See our refund policy and terms of booking here.

The Oxford Trust is fully committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of all children and young people. Please see our Safeguarding Commiment here.