Teaching the Future to the Future
The absolutely amazing Modular Robotics partnered with us to deliver the first in a four part robotics series for our 7-11 age group this morning.
The Robot Investigators will go from snapping together simple Cubelet blocks, to understanding the functions and forms of robots. With Cubelets, these students will begin to understand the engineering process, how to solve problems by making things, and the basics of programming and computational thinking.
When a veteran 7 year old Coder Ninja's father picked him up this afternoon and the father asked how the dojo went, the boy responded eagerly "this was an amazing experience dad!". Ahhh! How do you top that?
Today was inspiration. I am consistently shocked and amazed by the caliber of the kids that set foot into our dojo. I set out on this mission to share the joys and adventure of science and technology with the heirs of Colorado, America, and Planet Earth. The validation of this mission is reinforced exponentially with each subsequent dojo session.
"Software engineers shall act consistently with the public interest", this is the first principle of the Software Engineer's Code of Ethics*. We, as a people, must make it our mission to put the proper tools into the hands of our children and empower them to confidently face that which lay ahead.
*(http://www.acm.org/about/se-code)
You can register for upcoming CoderDojo sessions and other sessions in this series on EventBrite.
