Hi Adam, I've run code club at a couple of locations with children aged from 10-13 - whilst I'm not up to date with the resources, they seemed good about 3 years ago, and I can't imagine that they've worsened with time.
https://codeclub.org/en/ Hope that helps Adam On Sat, 22 Apr 2023 at 14:08, Adam John Trickett via Hampshire < hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone had any experience with using a Raspberry Pi for a project with > children? > > I can see that there are loads of projects on-line and in magazines, but > which > ones actually work well with children? > > My wife is working with the town hall to provide IT lessons (mostly > pensioners) but they would like to do something with children during the > school holidays. > > The ideal projects would be: > * Doable over 4 days of mornings or afternoons > * Doesn't require use of soldering irons (weapons) > * Not strictly attractive to boys or girls > * Some thing for primary and secondary school age > * Not silly expensive - we can get grant money but not zillions > > I've said I'm happy to give time on the Linux side and I know some > programming, but I expect it will be more of a plug board kit kind of > project > with a pre-written program that they can tinker with. > > -- > Adam Trickett > Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France > > I guess that, if you're in Microsoft's shoes, it makes sense. If you > can't write software or protocols that can stably walk and chew gum, > program in a limit that prevents the user from telling it to do so. > -- Jonathan Patschke, on limitations in Active Directory > > > > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -- -- You back your data up on the same planet? http://www.monkeez.org PGP key: 0x7111B833
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