INTERACTIVE CODING, CRAFTING, AND FUN!

Hands-on learning meets live-action role-play at Anywear Academy.


A FREE NSF-funded 5-Day Curriculum with a focus on Science/ Technology / Arts

Great for Summer Camps, Afterschool Programs or Makerspaces

For ages 10-13, with a focus on Science/ Technology / Arts

Inspire Computational Interest Through Role Play

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A Design-Based Research Approach

Anywear Academy is the final product of a five-year Research-through-Design Case Study on how an edu-larp-based, social wearables-focused camp can bridge the Identity Gap in STEM fields. 


At Anywear Academy, campers engage in computational problem-solving by taking on characters and enacting scenarios that encourage immersive learning. 


By going on missions as Anywear Academy Agents-in-Training, campers learn how to program and design social wearable technology to solve problems for a community.

Benefits

Play-Based Learning

Edu-larp is a structured, live-action roleplay experience that teaches through social enactment and reflection. 

Edu-larp stands for Educational Live-Action Roleplay!

Community Building

Campers are involved in shared missions that engage them in group problem-solving through coding and wearable design

Competence Boosting

Camp observations, interviews, and pre-and post-surveys showed that campers reported increases in measures of competence, self-efficacy, and interest in computation.


Camper Testimonials

"How we helped each other during coding, how we did the costumes, did that together, and how we did like missions together...that kind of bonded us"


"Brainstorming, how to connect the clues together that we got from the missions, Because it was really interesting to see it from different points of views and have different people though different things about the class"


"I like that we can talk have more fun together and learn together...it felt like a summer camp. the worst part was to go home. "


5 Days | 4 Plots | 12 Missions

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