Begin your rise to the top of the charts with digital music production! Just like today's top artists, you can design your own beats or remix a mashup of your favorite songs to become a digital composer and sound engineer. In this course, students will learn to produce digital music, record sound, make sound effects, and mix their own tracks. No prior music experience is necessary. Student-created soundtracks will be available on a password-protected website to share with friends and family. Students will work in pairs or teams for most of the program. Ages 10-15.
July 21-24, 2025 | 2:00pm-5:00pm PDT | Bend
July 21-24, 2025 | 9:00am-12:00pm PDT | Redmond

Watch as the characters in your imagination come to life in this unique course that blends classic storytelling with animation techniques and coding. Start with a concept, design the characters, and choose not just one ending, but many! Learn how to create your own text-based adventure games with variables, conditional logic, images, HTML, CSS, and Twine scripting syntax. Student projects will be available on a password-protected Black Rocket website to share with friends and family. Students will work in pairs or teams for most of the program. Ages 10-15.
July 14-17, 2025 | 9:00am-12:00pm PDT | Bend
July 14-17, 2025 | 2:00pm-5:00pm PDT | Redmond
August 18-21, 2025 | 2:00pm-5:00pm PDT | Bend
August 18-21, 2025 | 9:00am-12:00pm PDT | Redmond

With the world's increased reliance on digital data, cyber security is more important than ever! In this class, you are all that stands between a group of international hackers launching cyber attacks and world peace. Through a series of challenges, students will learn to apply tools used by professional digital forensics teams to crack codes and use encryption. Working in teams you will collect clues, recover lost data, and explore the tools of the trade to become the next great cyber spy! Students will work in pairs or teams for most of the program. Ages 10-15.
August 25-28, 2025 | 2:00pm-5:00pm PDT | Bend
August 25-28, 2025 | 9:00am-12:00pm PDT | Redmond

Want to learn the world's fastest-growing programming language favored by Google and NASA? Discover how to code with Python using accessible web-based platforms that guide students through a series of daily lessons. Build fundamental tech literacy while creatively solving software engineering challenges! Students will work in pairs or teams for most of the program, and their work can be saved on a password-protected website to share with friends and family. Ages 10-15.
July 7-10, 2025 | 9:00am-12:00pm PDT | Bend
July 7-10, 2025 | 2:00pm-5:00pm PDT | Redmond
August 11-14, 2025 | 2:00pm-5:00pm PDT | Bend
August 11-14, 2025 | 9:00am-12:00pm PDT | Redmond