School of Code / Calgary
School of Code is a small Calgary school for programming and robotics. Students make games, wire circuits, test machines, and learn the code, logic, and mathematics inside them.
Scratch and Robotics are active now. Groups have up to four students.
What students do
Each lesson puts an idea into a project a student can run, inspect, change, and explain.
Active programs
Students author games, animations, simulations, and strange interactive stories while learning how events, rules, and state fit together.
Students write commands, wire simple circuits, read sensors, and trace physical cause and effect through the Sense–Decide–Act loop.
Coming later
Their pages describe possible directions, not classes that can be booked today.
A possible later step from visual programming into Lua, 3D objects, events, and larger game rules.
A possible later program for testing patterns, predictions, prompts, mistakes, and the limits of AI tools.
School and Computer Lab
A class introduces one idea in a clear sequence: a short explanation, a test, a guided build, and a change the student can explain.
Computer Lab time is guided but more open. A student can finish a stubborn section, add a feature, investigate a bug, or rebuild the idea another way.
Strange and serious projects
A strange premise gives students a reason to care whether the loop stops, the sensor changes, or the taxi reaches Mars.
Build a fast chase game with known positions, collision rules, win and loss states, and reliable restart behaviour.
See how it worksDefend a mug of cocoa from falling snowballs. Each wave gets faster, and winter becomes less reasonable.
See how it worksWrite a robot route, predict where it will end, and trace the first command that goes wrong.
See how it worksDesign a repeating patrol that notices an obstacle, tries a response, and checks whether the response worked.
See how it worksNavigate a space taxi between coordinate-based pickups and destinations.
See how it worksTrack several drifting chickens, collect them once each, and stay out of the danger zones.
See how it worksHidden ideas
Every project gives the student something specific to figure out.
A student predicts what the code will do, runs it, and deals with the result. The finished game or robot system makes that work visible to parents too.
Read practical answers for parentsCalgary / Small groups
With no more than four students in a group, Eugene can follow the actual code instead of judging progress by how busy the screen looks. Ask for current ages, scheduling, and venue details.
Teaching method
Lessons move from a clear idea to a working project. Students predict, test, revise, and finish by showing which rules control the result.
Read our methodParent guides and notes
The useful question is what a child does at the screen: watch, or make something that can be tested and changed.
Read the noteA suitable starting point depends on the child, the task, and the support available—not one universal birthday.
Read the noteScratch makes program structure visible and lets beginners work on logic before punctuation takes over the afternoon.
Read the noteA short note about interests and previous experience is enough to begin. Eugene can suggest a sensible starting point and share what is currently available.