Creative Coding

is fun, cross-disciplinary, and we believe it should be every student's first foray into coding. But it doesn't have to exist only in computer science and art departments. Creative Code {Me} is an initiative to bring coding to traditional K-12 classes, across all subjects, by providing educators with the resources and connections to experienced mentors who can come into the classroom.
*So get started by checking out some creative coding projects below, or by learning how it works to bring creative coding into your own classroom.

Project Gallery (see what it's all about)

Baroque

A beautiful online visualization of sound

The Wilderness Downtown

An interactive film showing new storytelling

Airbnb StoryTelling

A data visualization telling the story of AirBnb's growth

Firewall

An interactive media installation that creates fire-like visuals and expressive music play

Magnetosphere

A visualization that responds to the beat of a song

Carbon Emissions

A 3D vizualization of the earth's carbon emissions from 2006 to 2010

Slavery Footprint

A website visually describing how slavery still exists within the everday products we use

Koala to the Max

An interactive exploration of koalas drawn using the creative Web

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

A storytelling visualization of drone strikes in Pakistan

Wooden Mirror

Interactive art piece that turns wood into a real mirror

Musical Notes

An interactive website where you play a Les Paul guitar

GoodMorning!

Twitter visualization tool that shows 11,000 ‘good morning’ tweets over a 24-hr period

City Symphonies

Traffic patterns create unique soundscapes

Ball Collisions!

Math-based system makes balls avoid your mouse

Every Last Drop

Beautiful animated Webpage tells the story of water conversation

Gloves

The MegaTap 3000 gloves turn tapping your fingers into drum sounds

Botanicalls

Botanicalls programs plants to call you when they need something

Moshpits Simulation

A cool code-based simulation of a moshpit

Text Rain

What if your words could rain down and respond to you?

Trash Mirror #3

An interactive mirror made out of trash (and physics)

Origami

Create beautiful origami in your browser

We Feel Fine

An exploration of human emotion on a global scale

MTA

A real-time visualization and symphony of NYC trains

Radar

An in-browser interactive soundscape that models radar

Just Landed

Mapping the world's flights through Twitter data

NYC Income Inequality

An interactive infographic that shows NYC income inequality

Dogs of NYC

An interactive map that shows popular dog trends in NYC

Creative Coding is
for everyone.

Creative Coding
in your classroom

Creative Code {Me} is about recognizing that coding should no longer be confined only to the worlds of computer science and art. In practice, coding is a useful tool across all subjects, and is best learned by working on an interesting project.

The core Creative Code {Me} program works by matching up teachers interested in supplementing their classes with coding projects to experienced mentors who can come in once a week to teach. This could include social studies teachers interested in data visualization projects, science teachers looking to explore real-world circuits and micro-controllers, art classes wanting to explore new media, and much more. We have experiened mentors in the following fields, all of whom are eager and willing to come to your classroom! Most of the creative coding resources could also be taught in a camp or workshop environment. Just let us know what you're looking for!

Creative Coding is
for every class.

How Does it Work
& FAQs

Creative Code {Me} matches creative coding mentors to the classrooms that need them the most. We believe creative coding should be introduced across ALL subjects, and have made mentors available to help teachers get this content into their classrooms. Read on to learn more about how it all works.

What types of programs could I bring to my classroom?
The sky is the limit. We have enthusiastic mentors and teachers in visual coding, hardware, Web programming, visual and user experience design, data visualization, and content/blogging. Our goal is to allow these types of creative coding areas to be taught in conjunction with existing subjects. This could include social studies teachers interested in data visualization projects, science teachers looking to explore real-world circuits and micro-controllers, art classes wanting to explore new media, and much more. If you're interested, but not quite sure what type of project would work in your classroom, drop us a line and we'll brainstorm some ideas together.
What types of creative coding teachers and mentors do you have in the program?
Our mentors come from both the professional and graduate student level. Every mentor is quite knowledgeable in his or her specific area, and has prior experience teaching workshops.
I am a teacher or administrator interested in bringing a program to my class. What do I do to get started?
Have a look at some of the projects above, and then drop us a line to let us know what type of project or workshop could work well in your class. If you're not sure, that's OK too, still drop us a line and we'll figure it out together.
Are there online resources and tutorials I can look at? I am a creative coding professional interested in teaching workshops in schools. How can I get involved?
First of all, fantastic! If you're interested in getting involved and teaching creative coding workshops in schools and camp settings, please drop us a line using the contact form below.
I am a creative coding graduate student interested in teaching workshops in schools. How can I get involved? And could I get internship credit?
Cool! And there is likely internship credit available in exchange for your teaching. If you're interested in getting involved and teaching creative coding workshops in schools and camp settings, please drop us a line using the contact form below.
Who are you guys and what's the deal with this initiative?
We are a group of graduate students at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). All of us learned creative coding well after high school, and we wish we had the opportunity to learn it much earlier in our academic lives. We all do creative coding, but we apply it in many different ways: for science, for art, for social studies, for storytelling, and much more. This is how we learned to code, and we believe these real-world applications are the best possible introduction to coding. We launched Creative Code {Me} to start a new initiative of coding across subjects.

Creative Coding is
fun and empowering.

ContactUs

Interested in getting involved with Creative Code {Me}? We're on the lookout for both 1. teachers wanting to introduce a workshop to their students and 2. creative coding mentors who can come into these classrooms and teach. Drop us a line using the form below, and we'll be in touch!

Creative Coding is
for everyone.