[okfn-discuss] Programming projects for children and kids

Tue Nov 26 11:22:59 UTC 2013

Awesome, Bea - glad to see this thread coming up, as it's something we are
thinking about every day at Mozilla also. Would be great to make a central
list of these somewhere that we can all reference and share in our networks!

Adding to it:

* In the UK, Make Things Do Stuff http://makethingsdostuff.co.uk/ --
Multi-org collaboration aimed at mobilising the next generation of digital
makers through kid-friendly events and actions
* Also in the UK, Code Club https://www.codeclub.org.uk/ -- volunteer-led
network of after school coding clubs for kids age 9-11
* Globally, of course, there is also Webmaker https://webmaker.org for
makers of all ages -- a set of open digital toolboxes and communities
focused on inspiring web users to move from being consumers to creators.
Webmaker includes tools like HTML editor Thimble, web vid maker Popcorn,
and the previously-mentioned Hackasaurus, also known as XRay Goggles. As
you can see, these are very close to my heart ;)

- Kat

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On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Hanssens Bart <Bart.Hanssens at fedict.be>wrote:

> 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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> Marieke Guy [marieke.guy at okfn.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 10:36 AM
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> Subject: Re: [okfn-discuss] Programming projects for children and kids
>
> 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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