This Friday we had a first practice run of our children workshop with 6 Dutch school children. In this workshop we teach young children aged 9-12 years-old how to code with a simple drag & drop game program called Scratch. Using already existing instruction cards we let the children with our help explore how to create their own little video game. In this case it is a game in which you hold up a ball-like-object with a paddle. But don’t let it drop or you lose! It was a fun interactive one hour session. As every kid can choose a variety of balls and paddles the final product can be whatever they want it to be! This way you end up with a game thats just normal and then others that have a donut balancing an egg!
For the real deal we definitely need to make sure that we have functioning logins for the children and we still need to translate the instruciton cards into Dutch so it works even better! Otherwise our first practice was definitely a full success!
