🎭 Event-Driven Animation Loops & Object Attributes: Playtime Fun (Puppet Play) + iCode! 🧸💻

Event: Kids: Playtime Fun – Puppet Play

When: Monday, July 13, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Where: Princeton Public Library (Story Room, 65 Witherspoon St., Princeton NJ)

Event link: Princeton Public Library Events

Who it’s for: Ages 18 months and up (with a parent or adult caregiver)

Cost: FREE! Drop-in session, no registration required

Why we love it 💛

Puppet Play workshop at Princeton Public Library! These drop-in social sessions give early learners a relaxed, fun environment to play, socialize, and explore weekly developmental themes. We absolutely love puppet play because choosing a character, controlling its physical movements, and executing a miniature storyline is a child’s very first offline exposure to runtime simulation, manual interface tracking, and object behavior control!

How this event aligns with iCode Princeton 🌈⚙️

Manipulating a puppet to animate an imaginary world mirrors the foundational tech concepts behind Character Rigging and Event-Driven Logic Loops!

• Skeletal Rigging & Runtime Control: When a child slips on a puppet, their fingers act as the controller that changes the asset’s position, stance, and expressions. In our STEAM Junior and Scratch Tracks, we move this exact mechanical relationship onto the screen! Early coders learn how to use visual input triggers (like pressing keyboard arrows) to send execution paths to their game sprites, determining exactly how digital characters move, jump, and navigate a coordinate grid.

• Object Attribute Customization: Giving a puppet a specific voice, role, or background story mimics how computer programmers assign unique descriptors to software elements. In our Core Tech, Python, and Foundations Belts, we turn this imaginative storytelling logic into strict computer science! Students discover how to define variables, assign distinct object string properties, and control parameter values, ensuring their software entities act with perfect logical precision within their games.

Join the fun, then keep the momentum going at iCode 🎒🚀

Animate your stories and test your character layouts in the library’s Story Room, then bring that incredible spatial awareness to iCode Princeton where we teach you how to code, script, and build your own fully interactive digital animation universes!

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