In video games, players can pilot spaceships, explore alien worlds, and solve futuristic puzzles – experiences that spark curiosity about technology and space. Game design teaches how interactive worlds are built and how challenges keep players engaged, skills that connect creativity and fun with logic and systematic thinking.

Explorers will transform their sci-fi adventure ideas into playable games through physical experiments and digital coding with MakeCode Arcade. Through building explorable space worlds and engineering challenges, students create their own unique ProjectFUN games to take home on a handheld console – a cosmic creation they can play and share with friends.

Projects in this workshop may include: Designing and building a spaceship for a scrolling platformer game and crafting a real-life space exploration game using outdoor objects.