Mozilla Summer Code Party in New York

NYC's ABC News on a Mozilla Summer Code Party event run by Hive NYC, in collaboration with the NYC Department of Education.

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It may not look like a summer camp

but that is just fine with these campers,

as they learn cool things

to do with computers.

We learn about how to make a meme and you

could use a computer to make any video
game.

180 middle schoolers were treated to the

latest in the series of so-called
"Code Parties" this time at the Bronx Y.

The party starts with learning how to

use a website building tool
called X-Ray Goggles.

You get to see all of the individual
elements and then you can remix them.

So, you can change the images and change

the texts to really make it your own.

And start to understand

that you have agency to actually

create what's on the web.

It'll help me when I am bigger I could
easily know how to do it.

This is the collaboration between the
greater New York YMCA, the department of

educations Summer Quest program and the
Hive an umbrella organization for the

dozens of not-for-profit groups.

Because recent studies have shown an

increase in the problem of what's called

summer learning loss for students more

and more summer camps have added academic

components to their programs.

They can't be just playing all summer

long. You can't just be hanging on the

street anymore. We need to be doing so
much more. So any major agency that's

running any sort of quality camp
program is going to be

infusing academic learning in some way.

The kids do get time for activities like
swimming. But even they seem to

understand the importance of summer
learning.

So, it helps us by learning new things
that we never knew before.

In Castle Hill the Bronx, Art McFarland
Channel 7 Eyewitness News