Virtual Workshop - Chaos Maze Inspired by Wonder Woman 1984
Empire State Maker Faire 2020
October 16th-17th
Inspired by WONDER WOMAN 1984, coming to theaters, Wonder Woman is in the Smithsonian Museum and she needs to collect artifacts before time runs out. In this free virtual experience, learners eight and older use block-based coding to design and code their own arcade game to play online.
If you’ve never coded before and want to learn this is the experience for you.
By the end of the experience, students will have:
Learned and used key game-design and coding concepts
Coded a playable game
Published their game via a URL so they can continue to play and develop it after the workshop
Quanira Irby
Quanira Irby is an experienced Community Development Specialist for Microsoft in Syracuse. She is dedicated to provide everyone in her community with new and engaging ways to learn and explore technology. After earning her Bachelors in English, Quanira joined the Microsoft team to explore her passion in teaching, creativity and development. When not keeping busy with providing technology education sessions, Quanira can be found volunteering, skating and spending time with her pet dragon; a bearded dragon named Mushu.
http://www.Microsoft.com/Syracuse
Kate Dana
As the Training Team lead for Microsoft Syracuse, Kate Dana is a noteworthy leader in the space of technology advancement in the workplace and education sector. She can be credited with contributions of producing high performance training series to educate in technology transformations, custom content for wide variety of learning levels and amazing learning experiences. In her free time, Kate can be found collecting and playing on her collection of retro game consoles while snuggled up with her chiweenie named Oliver.
https://www.microsoft.com/syracuse
