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Lots of kids spend part of their s Well, one Northwest company is helping Portland kids make their own video games free of charge. KGW's Kathy Marshall takes us to Smart Code Camp. Sounded yet? What? Sounded. Reese tries to locate a certain smartphone. From the first minute, no go-l Keegan searches for the best-selling video game. It's this way over here. They are campers on a scavenger hunt, not in the woods, but in the downtown Portland Microsoft store. With the help of our camp counselors, they are going through learning how to code and create their own games and apps. This is not a lot of free things for kids to do. And my son's really interested in coding. He'd By the time s All the exposure to Microsoft products, though, may create some future customers. Do you appear at the shop here? No, not really, because they think it's too expensive. The camp consists of two-hour sessions running Monday through Thursday, grade schoolers in the morning, and older students in the afternoon. What kind of game would you I don't really know yet. I'm having a little trouble figuring it out. The first one they do, it's really cute. You have a turtle, and you were programming the turtle to draw a square. You can also program it to have a different color. From here, they'll move on to create their own character, and by week's end, they'll leave with a game. There was a student that we had last Friday, and he made a game where you had to bounce a bowl of rice into a hippo's mouth. And he was the cutest thing. They can think it, they can create it. The free Microsoft camps are filled for the rest of this s Kathy Marshall, KGW News. The free s
