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Funtech camp review - very good!

I loved my time at Funtech I learnt so much. I was doing Minecraft and it was so much fun.

I really enjoyed learning readstone

Through out this week I had lots of fun and i made some friends. Plus I got to learn how to make some things with readstong (E.G: A clock)

GReat!

GReat!

Funtech review

The course was very good, and I had a lot of fun with it. The tutors are great

mincraft

EVERYTHING WAS AMASING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I learnt things I never knew! THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

EVERYTHING WAS AMASING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I learnt things I never knew!
THANK YOU
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Minecraft

It Was So Fun

fun lovely

I loved it I couldn't have dreamed about it

Funtech go

funtech is very fun and this week I made a lot of friends.I would love to come back.

AMAZING (MINECRAFT Course)

Lots of support and a nice amount of breaks. Lots to do and great for Every Minecrafter.(I am SERIOUS)

week of willy

it was very very very very very fun

Funtech

I liked the camp a lot and had lots of fun.

Awesome

The course has been amazing and the teacher/tutor explained everything very clearly funtech over my experiance of my time as been exhilarating and i have enjoyed every bit of it. It was easy making freinds. Despite the tutoring bieng online making freinds was suprisingly easy. In my opinion the...

The course has been amazing and the teacher/tutor explained everything very clearly funtech over my experiance of my time as been exhilarating and i have enjoyed every bit of it. It was easy making freinds.
Despite the tutoring bieng online making freinds was suprisingly easy.
In my opinion the course is most certainly worth it and highly recommended.
The teacher Kevin was amasing he was so energetic and helpful towards our needs and the help of the understanding of the code.
If you ever get the chance to be with these amazing people I would 100% do the course.
I want to thank FunTech for everything and if I were to rate the course I would definitely rate it out of 10 a 1,000 out of.
This course has definitley inspired me to carry on coding.
This was a life changing experience for me and I can now understand code to be able to code mostly anything.
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by Shemi

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My review

Very fun I enjoyed it a lot. Obviously this is different from the first level which made it a lot more worthwhile since I have gotten better and I think this is an efficient way to learn as a group as we can learn from other people's problems. Also the tutors are nice and the class sizes are ju...

Very fun I enjoyed it a lot.
Obviously this is different from the first level which made it a lot more worthwhile since I have gotten better and I think this is an efficient way to learn as a group as we can learn from other people's problems.
Also the tutors are nice and the class sizes are just about right which enables a good learning experience for everyone. Since there are so many courses most people are on about the same level.
The units are set in a good order where the things we have covered before can be used in the current unit, which is helpful as we can look back to see our previous codes to refresh our memory.
One thing that can be an improvement though is that sometimes the course goes a bit fast for some of our likings (not for me).
So overall a very good course.

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Felix's Review

It was awsome!
My faviourate part about the course was being able to create my own custom dimentions!

Tegan Davey Review

I learnt a lot. It was great because it wasn't always the same. There were questions, programs to make, programs to fix and lots of choices. This meant that, by the end, we could use everything to make something really run. Everyone was really nice and the whole thing was really friendly.

very good

i loved it helped me make amazing games and items :)

my review

it was good

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nice

Maxi's review

The course was great and super fun.
My favourite part of the course is making our mod packs.

awsome

It was great I enjoyed coding for 2 weeks and I learn't alot. Thank you for teaching me to code and make fun programs . SUPER FUN! ...

It was great I enjoyed coding for 2 weeks and I learn't alot. Thank you for teaching me to code and make fun programs . SUPER FUN!

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Amazing

amazing , learnt a lot , very fun and very easy for all people

The best camp course ever!

I liked this camp because it was so much fun!

GREAT

great I LOVE IT

Luke's review

Amazing job! This was great! No complaints :) my fav part of the course was making tools, armour and ores. I figured out how to make ores generate on my own in my free time! so that's even better! I learn how to do a texture for a bow and how to make weapons even ranged!

FunTech

FunTech was a very fun experience for me, and I learned a lot on new things and my skill to code has improved a lot, and The Tutor was very nice and always helped when I needed help. Overall A very fun experience and I Highly recommend it.

Harry's review

over the couple weeks I found mods harder but I loved what kind of mods I made like entitys dimentions and biomes but I have been looking forward too the mod packs and I now can make them so thankyou for teatching me!

A wonderful way to learn!

Learning coding can be pretty hard, however this series of 3hr lessons was very worth it and taught me a lot about indie game development. I've put a lot of planning into becoming a game developer and this was a huge step. Our tutor also helped us when there was debugging needed or we couldn't fi...

Learning coding can be pretty hard, however this series of 3hr lessons was very worth it and taught me a lot about indie game development. I've put a lot of planning into becoming a game developer and this was a huge step. Our tutor also helped us when there was debugging needed or we couldn't find something in a specific area. Overall, I highly recommend these coding lessons.

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It was very fun

It was very fun because I got make and publish a game

My thoughts on the Indie Game summer camp

I have thoroughly enjoyed this camp! Awen is a very helpful and insightful. She made the camp fun and interesting. She is also very kind and understanding. I would love to have her again as my tutor. I have learnt a lot and have the base skills and further on how to construct a game :D

amazing

it was the best club I did in summer holidays. :)

Coding

I liked the coding because it was fun learning.

Great

It was very fun

It was really fun.

It was really interesting and fun, liked the features and codes,I learned a lot of minecraft and blocks.

wow its good

i had a lot of fun throughout this whole course it was really fun because it wasent just normal scratch codiing

funtech review

this was very helpful to me and helped me understand python a lot better. so when i go back to school i will be able to do computer science easily. the staff here a very helpful and kind.

good

i reallky enjoyed playing with the others and the code

great fun

i had fun being part of the coding camp, learnt lots and looking forward to what i have learnt into practise

funtech review

i really enjoyed these to weeks of funtech code because i learned so much from kevin and we had loads and loads of super duper fun

2 Week Java Coding Camp Review

It was fun and I learnt a lot.

Toby had a great time at the 3D games Design week

Toby had a great time at the 3D games Design week, he enjoyed it a lot and had quite a decent game by the end of the week that he was reasonably pleased with – important to me, to know that he found some friends to play with in the breaks which was really key to making it much more interesting an...

Toby had a great time at the 3D games Design week, he enjoyed it a lot and had quite a decent game by the end of the week that he was reasonably pleased with – important to me, to know that he found some friends to play with in the breaks which was really key to making it much more interesting and stimulating.
We find coming to Barbican super convenient and the venue was great (maybe playground a bit small, but I didn’t actually see it?).
I did think maybe the more round table room layout you used to have at City Girls school was a bit better than the classroom lecture set up of the room, I am not sure Toby cared that much but I think he maybe got to know less people this time (?), he commented to me that all the helper/teachers were so very kind and lovely – this has always been the case and it really makes Funtech so good, so overall we absolutely love FunTech thank you.
I noticed only that we didn’t get a t shirt this time at the end. I wonder if you do ice breaker stuff at the start of the week with the kids in the break, maybe some outdoor games or learning each others names or something could make the group bond a bit more easily, Toby is pretty shy and it would possibly help him – he always gets to know the people sitting right next to him the best otherwise.
For Toby, he really is devoted to Minecraft and Redstone still, even though he is 13 – he would definitely come along if you ran a more grown up Minecraft course because he is now too old and has done them all, it looks like his options are to do something more like a coding course eg. Python as a 13 year old.
Many thanks and long may Funtech continue, we have been coming every year and went to everything we could think of so far, hopefully we can find a good course at Barbican again next summer!

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Wonderful first camp experience

My son attended FunTech for the Minecraft Mod camp as his first sleep away camp experience. He adored it and can't wait to come back next year.

Fun at FunTech

Chloe thoroughly enjoyed her Python Coding residential camp. She has done a little bit of Python coding before so the tutors adapted her tasks to make them a little more challenging. She learnt some new coding skills but, most notably of all, she had fun !

It was probably her favourite camp ever

Ayesha loved Funtech and also enjoyed Lego camp last year.
She has since been coding at home, and learnt a lot at camp.
She also enjoyed working with and learning from the other students at Funtech.
It was probably her favourite camp ever.

Engaging course and worthwhile holiday activity

We thought the course was well organised and run.

The student care was very good with the inquiries about how to improve the experience for us.

Our son's only criticism was the 8 hour length facilitated by a lot of breaktime which is more challenging to fill for older teenagers.

Everything was great

Feedback from Jamie was that "everything was great”. I don't think we can get more granular that this!

Brian enjoyed the FunTech camp

Brian enjoyed the FunTech camp because it taught him new stuff about Python.
And he met new friends there.

Lewis thoroughly enjoyed the Python course

Lewis thoroughly enjoyed the Python course. He learnt a lot and his teacher was good. Lewis would now like to do weekly courses with you.

Will recommend to all of my friends

I was really happy with everything about Austin’s touch typing course. He had such a great time with everyone and the teachers he was working with were absolutely perfect. Young, enthusiastic and really motivating. They put so much effort into make sure the children had a good time whilst also ...

I was really happy with everything about Austin’s touch typing course. He had such a great time with everyone and the teachers he was working with were absolutely perfect. Young, enthusiastic and really motivating. They put so much effort into make sure the children had a good time whilst also learning valuable skills. At first I did think that the course was very expensive, but to be honest, in hindsight – it was worth every penny. He even won a £60 amazon voucher for coming top of his group which was such a lovely generous surprise and completely unexpected. I will be booking again and I will recommend you to all of my friends.

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Hackathon Northwood 1st-5th August 2022

Hackathon was a great introduction to cyber security and my daughter thoroughly enjoyed it.
It was delivered efficiently, professionally and with aplomb by the Funtech team right from enrolment through to completion.
I would highly recommend this course to others.

My daughter made me promise not to pick her up early!!

My daughter joined the Minecraft Mod Developer course this summer for a week. She loved it! She bounded in every morning and didn’t want to leave a minute earlier than necessary. She is pretty familiar with playing Minecraft, yet this course helped her to to combine her creativity with new tech...

My daughter joined the Minecraft Mod Developer course this summer for a week. She loved it! She bounded in every morning and didn’t want to leave a minute earlier than necessary. She is pretty familiar with playing Minecraft, yet this course helped her to to combine her creativity with new technical knowledge to create her own gaming characters, and some very cool building blocks. She wants to try coding next year - and her younger sister is desperate to join her. The venue was very conveniently located for us in the Barbican, the staff pleasant and knowledgeable. I felt my daughter was in good hands all week.

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