From outrexian at gmail.com  Sun Oct  7 18:19:03 2012
From: outrexian at gmail.com (Owen Rexian)
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 17:19:03 +0100
Subject: [python-advocacy] Computer Club
Message-ID: <CACRd3x30Sdq-TFz7x8oJ-XBf4RucSqvjO0DwjH+4=f0AF4Tv6w@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

I'm a student from England, and in order to strengthen my University
application I've decided to form a Computer Club at my school. I'm going to
be teaching years 7-9 Python.

Are there any cool demos I could show off to get the kids excited and
hopefully attract some attention (getting a grant to buy Raspberry Pi's
would be nice).

Or if anyone has any other ideas to show off at a computer club, I'd be
interested to hear!

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask!

Jack
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From aahz at pythoncraft.com  Sun Oct  7 23:22:19 2012
From: aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz)
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 14:22:19 -0700
Subject: [python-advocacy] Computer Club
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On Sun, Oct 07, 2012, Owen Rexian wrote:
> 
> Are there any cool demos I could show off to get the kids excited and
> hopefully attract some attention (getting a grant to buy Raspberry Pi's
> would be nice).

You might be able to convince the PSF to give you a grant:

http://www.python.org/psf/grants/

I can probably give you some help writing the grant proposal if you want.
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From tleeuwenburg at gmail.com  Mon Oct  8 01:07:02 2012
From: tleeuwenburg at gmail.com (Tennessee Leeuwenburg)
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 10:07:02 +1100
Subject: [python-advocacy] Computer Club
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Message-ID: <CADhgxgf6r4v8jPi61=43o-FK7pDKbuGGAYNJXNaXPSTvpjDu9A@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Owen,

You might like to take a look at PyGame, which lets you write games in
Python and also the pygame.org website has a lot of example games you
can download yourself. It seems like it could be a good place to
start. Otherwise, if they have Android smart phones, you could get
them to download one of the various Python interpreters for Android
and get them to write basic code on there. They could write a basic
twitter app or just muck around.

Cheers,
-T

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Owen Rexian <outrexian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a student from England, and in order to strengthen my University
> application I've decided to form a Computer Club at my school. I'm going to
> be teaching years 7-9 Python.
>
> Are there any cool demos I could show off to get the kids excited and
> hopefully attract some attention (getting a grant to buy Raspberry Pi's
> would be nice).
>
> Or if anyone has any other ideas to show off at a computer club, I'd be
> interested to hear!
>
> Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask!
>
> Jack
>
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