Morning Session (9:00 am – 12:00 pm): AI Animation — Fun Storyboarding & Concepts

• Focus: Introducing the basics of creative AI tools to generate simple story scripts, cartoon characters, and visual storyboards.
• Monday: Introduction to safe AI tools; exploring how to write simple prompts using descriptive words and setting up our workspace.
• Tuesday: The Fun Script Generator – Using guided AI prompts to brainstorm adventure themes, design silly character profiles, and write a simple 1-minute story.
• Wednesday: My First Character Art – Learning how to prompt an image generator to create a cartoon character and a colorful background for their world.
• Thursday: Building the Storyboard – Arranging the generated images in a sequence to tell a clear, visual story from start to finish.
• Friday (Milestone 1): Class showcase of individual “Story Pitch Decks” featuring the final script and character pictures.

Afternoon Session (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm): Editing with CapCut — Trimming & Pacing Basics

• Focus: Understanding the video editing timeline, importing assets, trimming unwanted footage, and syncing actions to music.
• Monday: CapCut orientation; importing media assets, dragging files onto the video track, and practicing the split and cut tools.
• Tuesday: Editing to the Beat – Finding a fun background music track and trimming clip durations so that scene changes match the rhythm of the music.
• Wednesday: Smooth Transitions – Adding simple fades and cuts between clips to make the story flow naturally without jarring jumps.
• Thursday: Fun Captions & Titles – Using the auto-caption tool to generate text on screen and choosing bright, easy-to-read styles and colors.
• Friday (Milestone 1): Screening a completed, neatly trimmed 30-second music-driven video track.

Morning Session (9:00 am – 12:00 pm): AI Animation — Making Art Move

• Focus: Turning still drawings into simple video clips, adding voiceovers, and generating raw animated segments.
• Monday: Introduction to basic image-to-video tools; learning how to use simple prompts to make a character blink, wave, or walk.
• Tuesday: Animating the Scene – Converting the uniform character artwork from Week 1 into a collection of moving video clips.
• Wednesday: Voice & Sounds – Using a text-to-speech tool to generate fun character voices and adding basic, built-in sound effects (like footsteps or giggles).
• Thursday: The Video Export – Assembling and preparing all raw generated AI elements for final layout processing.
• Friday (Milestone 2): Class review and selection of final rendered AI asset packages.

Afternoon Session (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm): Editing with CapCut — Advanced Video Layouts

• Focus: Using video stickers, tracking multi-layer streams, and compiling the final morning project clips into a complete video.
• Monday: Working with video overlays to place fun graphics, text bubbles, or stickers on top of baseline video footage.
• Tuesday: Green Screen Fun – Learning how to click and remove a green screen backdrop to place an asset into an entirely new location.
• Wednesday: Color Adjustments – Using simple brightness, contrast, and filter settings to make video clips look cohesive and clean.
• Thursday: The Final Assembly – Combining the morning session’s AI animated clips, synthetic voices, and background tracks into one polished movie track.
• Friday (Milestone 2): Grand screening room for each student’s completed 1-minute AI-animated short film.

Morning Session (9:00 am – 12:00 pm): 3D with Blender — Navigating the 3D World

• Focus: Getting comfortable in a virtual 3D workspace and manipulating basic shapes into simple objects.
• Monday: The 3D playground; learning how to view a 3D space from different angles and move, scale, and rotate basic blocks.
• Tuesday: Building Low-Poly Props – Using simple extrusion tools to pull and stretch shapes into basic objects like a sword, a shield, or a castle tower.
• Wednesday: Building a Block Character – Stacking cubes, cylinders, and spheres together to construct a blocky robot or a toy mascot.
• Thursday: Adding Color – Applying basic colors and materials to make the 3D block objects look shiny, metallic, or matte.
• Friday (Milestone 3): Exporting a clean picture of their custom 3D model scene to share.

Afternoon Session (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm): Design with Canva — Fun Visual Layouts

• Focus: Understanding basic shapes, colors, and layout rules to build digital graphics and a personal brand identity.
• Monday: Tour of the Canva dashboard; learning how to drag, drop, resize, and organize elements on a page.
• Tuesday: Color & Font Match-Up – Playing with cool font pairings and selecting color schemes that express different emotions.
• Wednesday: Cool Posters & Social Graphics – Creating simple posters by combining personal photos with shapes, stickers, and simple background-removal tools.
• Thursday: My Creator Brand Kit – Designing a personalized name logo and saving a signature color palette to use on future projects.
• Friday (Milestone 3): Presenting a customized “Personal Creator Brand Kit” to classmates.

Morning Session (9:00 am – 12:00 pm): 3D with Blender — Simple Animation & Cameras

• Focus: Learning how keyframes work, setting up simple movement loops, and rendering out a video file.
• Monday: Introduction to the animation timeline; understanding how to save a starting position and an ending position to create motion.
• Tuesday: Character Motion Loops – Animating the block robot from Week 3 to do a simple action, like waving its hand or bouncing up and down.
• Wednesday: Camera & Studio Lights – Moving a virtual camera to get the best view of the character and adding simple lights to eliminate dark shadows.
• Thursday: The Render Button – Learning how to push the render command to let the computer save the 3D movement into a playable video file.
• Friday (Milestone 4): Final showcase screening of students’ original, moving 3D video clips.

Afternoon Session (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm): Design with Canva — Multi-Page Portfolios & Showreels

• Focus: Learning how to structure multiple pages, apply slide animations, and build a digital portfolio to display all camp work.
• Monday: Creating a multi-page presentation using a consistent layout and matching color themes.
• Tuesday: Simple Moving Designs – Adding fun page transitions and making individual shapes fade, slide, or pop onto the screen.
• Wednesday: My First Mini-Website – Designing a simple, clickable single-page website profile using pre-made Canva blocks.
• Thursday: The Camp Showreel Portfolio – Grouping the graphics, posters, 3D renders, and movie links made over the past month into a neat digital portfolio collection.
• Friday (Milestone 4): Grand summer camp showcase party where students launch their digital portfolios and parents watch the final creative video reels.