[okfn-discuss] Programming projects for children and kids

Tue Nov 26 11:00:05 UTC 2013

On a somewhat related (but rather local) note:

- http://www.i22n.org , a platform in Flanders started by (mostly) teachers wanting to improve the level of IT-education at school
- http://www.dwengo.org , somewhat a spin-off of a student group, focusing on promoting learning (adults and children) about microcontrollers / robots , becoming increasingly popular in various countries

Best regards

Bart
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From: okfn-discuss [okfn-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Marieke Guy [marieke.guy at okfn.org]
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Great list Beatrice - and thanks for forking the discussion ;-)

On 26/11/2013 09:29, Beatrice Martini wrote:
Hi,

As both Events Coordinator at the OKF and founding member at OpenTechSchool<http://www.opentechschool.org/> (a global community initiative promoting programming and tech workshops to folks of all genders, ages, and levels of knowledge), I find the previous e-mail thread about gender diversity and programming projects for kids <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/2013-November/009956.html> very interesting.

But I think the conversations about diversity and education could benefit from being discussed separately, so I'm creating this new thread.

To all of you asking about more links to code-for-kids (some for children, some for teens) projects – some I know about and appreciate:
Young Rewired State<https://youngrewiredstate.org/>: under 18, all genders, not beginners
Jugend Hackt<http://jugendhackt.de/> (spin-off of YRS, organized by OKF Germany): under 18, all genders, not beginners
Hackidemia<http://www.hackidemia.com/>: more hardware, kids of all ages, beginners-friendly
CoderDojo<http://coderdojo.com/> (the Berlin chapter just kicked off <https://medium.com/lifelong-learning/8231204a722b> last week, thanks to Tiffany, the same person who launched the initiative to mentor female speakers in tech <http://weareallaweso.me/> I linked in the previous thread): age 5-17, all genders
App Summer Camp<http://blog.opentechschool.org/2013/07/app-summer-camp-in-hamburg-it-was-awesome.html>: age 13-15, girls, Android
Isla<http://islalanguage.org/>: a programming language for children, by Marie Rose Cook, beginners-friendly

Hope you'll find some interesting links and hacking inspiration in this list.

Best,
Beatrice

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