CHILDREN PROGRAM 

Exploring Technology and Creativity (10-13 year old)

Module 1: Elevating Artistic Expression

Weeks 1-2: Perspective and Depth Mastery

• Deep Dive into Perspective Drawing: Begin with a field trip to a local park or urban area. Guide the children in identifying vanishing points and sketching scenes with buildings, trees, and playground equipment to practice 2-point perspective.
• Classroom Perspective Challenges: Set up a still life with objects of varying sizes and distances. Challenge the children to draw the arrangement, emphasizing the size changes due to perspective, creating a sense of depth.

Weeks 3-4: Light and Shadow Exploration

• Narrative Art Using Contrast: Children will create a piece of art that tells a story using only light and shadow, such as a scene where the setting sun casts long shadows, adding drama.
• Experimenting with Lighting: Use desk lamps to illuminate objects from different angles. Children sketch the same object under various lighting conditions, observing how shadows and highlights change.

Module 2: Digital Art and Design Discovery

Weeks 5-6: Digital Canvas Exploration

• Digital Art Software Workshop: Introduce software like Krita or Autodesk SketchBook. Demonstrate basic tools (brushes, layers, color palettes) and have children practice by creating a simple digital painting.
• Tablets and Stylus Pens Practice: Children experiment with drawing tablets, transitioning from paper sketches to digital art. They’ll create a self-portrait or a landscape, focusing on the differences in texture and line quality between digital and traditional mediums.

Weeks 7-8: Graphic Design Fundamentals

• Graphic Design Principles Workshop: Discuss the importance of balance, contrast, and color in design. Children design a logo for an imaginary company, applying these principles.
• Poster Design Project: Children are tasked with creating a digital poster for a school event, focusing on layout, typography, and effective use of color to attract attention and convey essential information.

Module 3: The Art of Coding

Weeks 9-10: Introduction to Creative Coding

• Interactive Coding Workshop: Introduce Scratch or Processing. Children create a basic interactive animation, such as a character that moves across the screen when arrow keys are pressed.
• Creating Simple Animations: Each child codes a short animation that tells a story, using loops to make characters perform actions like jumping or dancing.

Weeks 11-12: Generative Art and Algorithmic Beauty

• Generative Art Discussion: Explore examples of generative art and discuss the concepts of randomness and algorithms in art creation.
• Developing Generative Art Code: Children use Processing to create a simple piece of generative art, such as a pattern that evolves over time based on algorithmic rules they’ve coded.

Module 4: AI as a Collaborative Artist

Weeks 13-14: AI in Artistic Practice

• AI Art Generation Workshop: Use an AI tool like DeepArt to demonstrate style transfer. Children select an artwork from their portfolio and apply different artistic styles using the tool.
• Style Experimentation: Children experiment by applying various styles to their digital artworks, discussing how the changes affect the mood and interpretation of their pieces.

Weeks 15-16: Partnering with AI

• AI Co-Creation Project: Children are guided in starting a project where they use AI to enhance a piece of their art, such as incorporating AI-generated elements into a landscape painting.
• Work-in-Progress Presentations: Mid-project, children present their concepts and progress, sharing how they’re integrating AI into their artwork and any challenges they’re facing.

Module 5: Quantum Creativity

Weeks 17-18: Quantum Computing for Creatives

• Simplified Quantum Science Lessons: Explain quantum computing principles like superposition and entanglement through simple experiments or analogies, such as comparing superposition to a coin spinning (being both heads and tails until it lands).
• Quantum Art Discussion: Facilitate a brainstorming session on how quantum computing might influence future art forms, encouraging imaginative ideas like art that changes based on the viewer’s perspective.

Weeks 19-20: Envisioning and Creating Future Art

• Future Art Conceptualization Workshop: Children conceptualize an art project that incorporates futuristic technology, guided by their imagination and the discussions on quantum computing’s potential.
• Art Project Creation: With support, children create prototypes or detailed proposals for their futuristic art projects, using digital tools, sketches, or any other medium that helps convey their vision.

Final Project Presentation and Exhibition: The program concludes with an exhibition showcasing the children’s final projects, along with presentations where they share their creative process, the technology integration, and their vision for the future of art. This celebration highlights their growth.

Class sizes are limited to 10 students per session. In addition to the monthly membership fee ($1719.99), there will be an initiation fee of $279 per student per semester, payable in 3 installments, which will cover the material costs for the entire semester. Course materials will be emailed to students in advance for their review. To ensure a smooth course experience, we kindly request that questions for the mentor be emailed in advance, allowing sufficient time for the session to progress seamlessly.