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Re: [LUG] Pi groups for kids

 

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Well there are a lots of projects in magazines such as the magpi,
which are freely downloadable, tom and myself have also undertaken
projects  and can probably help remotely with things.

You can start with scratch and then use scratch to inteface with the gpio

moving on there is minecraft , you can use python or Gordon Hendersons
return to basics to interact with the environment, I did read that
sonic pi (ruby based) can also be used to interact with minecraft and
play music while in game.

I would not underestimate what children and young people are capable
of, give them the resources, hardware and access to tutorials,
documentation and support them, or encourage peer support and they
should be able to really thrive on all this.

It may be worth opening such a group up to kids from other primary
schools you can bring in more that way,  the more people there the
more expertise and experience can be shared.

Just found Mark's reply to this,  we are happy to help,.

don't forget the local pi jam, for north devon this is possibly
barnstaple but there is one in Exeter on Saturday and of course the
tech jam in Paignton on the 13th,

Maybe worth also looking to see if there is a barclays code
playground,which is scratch based but  it starts people off.

hope this helps

Paul


On 04/06/15 11:39, Tom wrote:
> Someone at my daughters primary school has got a Pi and has been
> asking about starting a group for the kids. Anyone got any pointers
> to primary school stuff other than that on the Pi site? Tom te tom
> te tom
> 

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