Children create their own games and learn more skills Tech to Pixel Academy

Heard in the metro, the mother speaking with her eight-year-old daughter: "and what do you have at school today? "Uh, we wrote a song... told stories... and then we learned about Javascript and explored design app iOS." Repeat? Not what you were expecting to hear? OK, so this little girl could be attending an institution focused on technology in some future, near or... it could very well be a student at the Academy of Pixel.

Pixel Academy is a school where the teenagers and children learn more about digital media and programming. Students take specific courses and participate in workshops on topics they want to learn more about. The concept is to equip young people in the 21st century skills and demonstrate technologies that can trigger their imaginations but currently absent from more traditional classrooms.

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We know all that the children have an easier time to master the technology. It makes sense to give their support and the freedom to learn and play at any age. Pixel Academy provides a creative space and guidance that they cannot find elsewhere.

Member students, ages 8-18, can attend each time schedules of allow - after school for example, or on the weekend - and a decline in some workshops, they would like to one day given. Not only this flexibility, not to mention the laboratory - like atmosphere, to help put some cool back to school, but focus on the design and programming of literacy will no doubt students well be used in all future initiatives.

Startup entrepreneurs frequently notice that if they could just put technology in the hands of children, creativity would explode. Pixel Academy races to the difficulties of providing the latest equipment and software in the school system wide (not counting adjustments of training and curriculum of the teachers) and gives students an innovative learning environment.

Mike Fischthal used to design games for Nickelodeon. The enthusiasm and creativity of the children, he taught at the camp, the quest for the summer of Galileo, has encouraged to start to give private lessons to New York. Overwhelming demand led to recruit more teachers and put his energy full-time in the Academy of pixels more and more.

So far, classes were held in various places, such as museums, libraries and living rooms. This makes it more difficult for parents to find and difficult to carry expensive gadgets. Fischthal turned the fundable crowdfunding platform to raise funds to establish a permanent residence. Look closely at the Academy in action and see what that mean a more stable home for children by watching the video below:

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Keith Liles is a freelance writer who loves travel, music, wine, hiking, poetry and little else. He trains to say 'yes' to life, rehearsing for the phone call when he was invited to tour with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.

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