In-Person Holiday Camps

Fire up your creativity and get snapping with Fire Tech’s Digital Photography for Tweens workshop! Learn how to stage, shoot and edit digital photos.

This workshop is designed for both DSLR beginners and semi-experienced digital photography creatives looking to build strong foundations and under-stand the science of capturing light and conveying emotion. Learn how to set up, shoot and edit great images in a variety of situations. From close-up macro shots, to capturing light in dark scenes to landscapes and action shots.

Course Length: 2 Day Course
Delivery format: In person teaching in small groups (max 8)
Suitable for: Age 9 – 12
Pre-requisites: No prior experience required
System Requirements: All equipment provided. 
Day Structure: 4 x 45 Minute Sessions, with 15 Minute Breaks & 45 Minutes for Lunch

Whether you are a budding composer or complete novice, this workshop takes all students through a wide variety of technical skills and music theory. Equip your creativity with the tools to create fantastic music and explore a variety of music genres to spark your curiosity and passion.

This holiday workshop provides a relaxed and fun environment for young people to explore trending music software, utilise digital keyboards and kick-start their creative journeys.

Course Length: 2 Day Course
Delivery format: In person teaching in small groups (max 8)
Suitable for: Age 9 - 12 
Pre-requisites: No prior experience required
System Requirements: All equipment provided. 
Day Structure: 4 x 45 Minute Sessions, with 15 Minute Breaks & 45 Minutes for Lunch

AR (Augmented Reality) and VR (Virtual Reality) are two of the hottest, most cutting-edge technologies in the world right now. Computers (and mobile phones) are finally becoming powerful enough to provide us with experiences which were once only the preserve of science fiction.

Enter the Fire Tech laboratory where expert tutors will introduce students to the ideas that underpin the concepts of AR/VR and teach them to build interactive Augmented Reality experiences and an entertaining VR environment. We are constantly surprised by what our students create!

Course Length: 2 Day Course
Delivery format: In person teaching in small groups (max 8)
Suitable for: Age 9 – 12
Day Structure: 4 x 45 Minute Sessions, with 15 Minute Breaks & 45 Minutes for Lunch

Course Length: 2 Day Course
Delivery format: In person teaching in small groups (max 8)
Suitable for: Age 9 – 12
Prerequisites: None. 
Day Structure: 4 x 45 Minute Sessions, with 15 Minute Breaks & 45 Minutes for Lunch

This fantastic course is based on the amazingly popular Roblox platform, and introduces budding young designers and developers to the principles of practical game design & development, world building and Lua programming. By the end of the course they will have created their own unique Roblox games and published them to the Internet for anyone to play.

Course Length: 2 Day Course
Delivery format: In person teaching in small groups (max 8) or Remote Learning - Live Teaching in small groups (max 8)
Suitable for: Age 9 – 12
Pre-requisites: No prior experience required
System Requirements: In person: All equipment provided. Remote Learning: please see system requirements. 
Day Structure: 4 x 45 Minute Sessions, with 15 Minute Breaks & 45 Minutes for Lunch

As a Minecraft Machine Engineer with Fire Tech, you will be thrown into an intensive mix of creativity, gaming and engineering. Each student finishes with an impressive command of important computing concepts, practical making skills, and will have extended their understanding of how to expand and enjoy their Minecraft universe. Through this course, students will gain an understanding of how simple circuits and logic gates work, how to automate processes in Minecraft and how to build automated machines to mine, plant, sow and build in the world.

Course Length: 2 Day Course
Delivery format: In person teaching in small groups (max 8)
Suitable for: Age 9 – 12
Pre-requisites: No prior experience required! 
System Requirements: All equipment provided. 
Day Structure: 4 x 45 Minute Sessions, with 15 Minute Breaks & 45 Minutes for Lunch

Our course focuses on the understanding and implementation of written Python using block-based approaches for an easy learning journey. Students will explore how to program like a pro and create their own written programming implementations.

Challenging, interactive, and lots of fun, this course helps to unlock the world of programming for young people, sparking an interest that makes them want to keep on exploring it!

Course Length: 2 Day Course
Delivery format: In-person teaching in small groups (max 8) or Remote Learning - Live Teaching in small groups (max 8)
Suitable for: Age 9 – 12
Pre-requisites: No prior experience required
System Requirements: In-person: All equipment provided. Remote Learning: please see system requirements. 
Day Structure: 4 x 45 Minute Sessions, with 15 Minute Breaks & 45 Minutes for Lunch