Sounds nice! :) And what were the most difficult parts for participants (where they were getting stuck mostly): Python syntax, turtle commands, geometry, ...?
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Tamim Shahriar <tamim.shahr...@gmail.com> wrote: > So, the workshop went fine yesterday. Let me give you a brief on what we > did. > > There were 30 computers in the lab and total 43 participants. Couple of > students brought their own laptop. The participants were all girls and they > study in grade 9, 10 and 11. > > We started at 9:30 AM. The computers had Linux mint and as most of them > were not familiar with Linux, we helped them to get familiar with it > throughout the day. The felt like hackers in English movies, when they were > entering various commands in the terminal. > > First one and half hour, we spent with hour of code (from code.org). I > also showed them a clip of Frozen movie, to give them idea from where the > snowflakes thing came from. Later I found that most of them already watched > the movie. > > Then we went for a break and had snacks. After the break, we did another > hour of code. But this time, it was with Python. They created a chat bot. > As we had Internet in every computer, we used this : > https://groklearning.com/hoc-2014/. > > Then we had lunch break. When we returned from the break, we worked with > the snowflakes thing again, but this time, with Python. We used this > resource : http://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/snowflake-turtle/. Then > they built different geometric shapes with turtle package. > > At 5:30 PM we announced closing. Then Bristy Sikder a former IOI bronze > medalist of Bangladesh who studies at MIT now, talked to them. It was > inspiring. We also answered lots of questions the girls asked throughout > the day. Then we had evening snacks. > > At 7:00 PM the closing ceremony was held. The girls were looking so happy > and excited. We had some guests to inspire them. > > I thank Code it, girl! to give me the opportunity to conduct the workshop. > Tahmid Rafi, Ashiqur Rahman Mushfiq and Rashedul Hasan Shoikat were there > with me as trainers in the workshop. The food was awesome and thanks to > Hafiza Khatun Memorial Trust for sponsoring. > > I also thank the group members of this group. Your shared resources were > useful. > > I am attaching some photos. > > > Regards, > Tamim. > -- Jurgis Pralgauskis tel: 8-616 77613; Don't worry, be happy and make things better ;) http://galvosukykla.lt
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