Animation summer camp to promote digital literacy through coding and virtual reality

By Shamar Meusa On In Guyana News |
Students, sponsors and members of the Guyana Animation Network at the launch of the summer camp, which was held at the University of Guyana.
Students, sponsors and members of the Guyana Animation Network at the launch of the summer camp, which was held at the University of Guyana.

The fourth annual Guyana Animation Network (GAN) Summer Camp was officially launched on Friday and is set to commence tomorrow.

The camp will run from July 15th to July 20th and will facilitate persons from ages five to 35. The students will be split into two classes: Class One, facilitating those ages 11 to 35; and Class Two, facilitating those ages five to 10. The focus of the camp is to promote digital literacy through animation, coding and virtual reality.

During the course of the camp, Class One will be creating a virtual reality experience of the Umana Yana, one of Guyana’s landmarks. The students will be studying a 3D structure of the landmark. During the class they are expected to be able to build features within the 3D structure of the landmark and through virtual reality will be able to interact with the features that they would have created. The class will also be focusing on 3D game development and cover subjects like physics, 3D graphics capability, scripting, along with others.