GoRuCo 2014 - Teaching Kids to Code on Raspberry Pi by Audrey Troutt

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Back in September 2013 I taught a class of 12 middle-school aged girls to write code in Scratch on the Raspberry Pi and program simple electronic circuits. This was a workshop for the Philadelphia non-profit TechGirlz.

I created 5 structured activities using Scratch and simple electronics that covered both good programming principles and the basics of electronic circuits. https://github.com/atroutt/scratch-pi

I will be sharing these structured projects as a template for other beginner workshops, and talk about what I learned by building and teaching this workshop.
I'll cover

What can be effectively covered in a day?
How can you setup a workshop up to maximize fun and learning on the day
Demos of some of the best projects!

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