[Python Wpg] Looking to borrow Raspberry Pi's

[Stuart Williams]

I planned, but never got around to, giving an update on how this went.
I'll include one below.

I'll be doing 3 or 4 two-hour workshops to a dozen high school students at
Nelson McIntyre Collegiate (on St Mary in Norwood Flats in St Boniface) for
the next few Thursdays from 4 to 6, teaching Linux, Python, and Raspberry
Pi.  If anyone wants to help out please let me know.  Being a TA is easy,
no prep required.

I've been in conversation with a couple of local organizations about
possibly doing some teaching to kids or adults.  If you think you might be
interested in helping brainstorm, organize, or volunteer in that area, also
let me know.

Stuart.

Here's my summary of the grade school sessions last year.

A year ago I taught 3 two hour sessions to about 15 kids in grades 4 to 6
at the local grade school.

The first day I started by talking about how stupid computers are.  I then
pretended (with pretend props) to be one making pancakes according to their
instructions.  They thought it was hilarious.  I then led them through
playing with Python at the interactive prompt, learning a bit about
numbers, strings, lists, if/then/else, and input.  By the end of day one, 2
hour, some of them were disappointed they hadn't written a game, so I
promised they would the next day if they came back.

The second day most came back and I gave them the tools to create a simple
game - I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 10, guess what number.  We
started super simple with a constant guess, only one try, then progressed
up to random numbers and a loop.  They were actually quite thrilled that
they had written a game.

The third day I showed them turtle graphics and how to write functions to
do things like draw bananas, and we did some RPi stuff.  Dave Thomas of the
WinniPi Raspberry Pi User Group came with a bunch of RPi units his company
(Online Business Systems) purchased for this course and to loan out to
others.  He worked with some of the kids on that while others preferred to
play with turtle.

I think it was a big success.  The kids loved it.  I had fun.



On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Stuart Williams <stuart at swilliams.ca> wrote:

> I've got one so far, thanks!
>
> By the way, I forgot to mention that I'd love to have some Teaching
> Assistants to help out.  The times for these sessions are tentatively 3:30
> p.m. to 4:30 p.m. 6 days (to be determined) in June.
>
> Stuart.
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Stuart Williams <stuart at swilliams.ca>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for 8 more Raspberry Pi boards to borrow to teach a computer
>> club after school to 10 students in grades 4-6 in June.  If you have one or
>> more you can loan please contact me.  Feel free to forward to other
>> individuals or lists.
>>
>> Stuart.
>>
>
>
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