Here are the activities that each group will be working on today:

Newcomers

If you are new to CoderDojo and new to computer programming this is where you start:

Go to Newcomers Activities

Scratch 1

Living Artwork

Today, you will create a project in which a famous painting comes to life. To do this, you’ll learn about an important computer science concept, Events.

In computer science, an event is something that causes an action to happen. An event can be pressing a key on your keyboard, clicking a sprite, or many other things.

Click here for instructions for the living artwork project

Scratch 2

Choose ONE of the following two projects:

Option 1. Dot Catcher Game (easy)

Follow these instructions to make the dot catcher game in Scratch.

Option 2. Top down scroller game (more advanced)

Part 1:

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Robotics

This session is run by Nathalie. An introduction to robotics using mBot robot kits and a block programming language called mBlock which is similar to Scratch.

Introduction to Robotics session information

Microcontrollers

A collaborative group exploring how computers can interact with the outside world through a range of sensors and controllers. Primarily we’ll be using the Raspberry Pi (http://raspberrypi.org) computer in conjunction with Arduinos (http://arduino.cc) and along the way we’ll learn about Python, C and C++ programming, digital and analogue electronics and about working together.

Electronics, Microcontrollers and Raspberry Pi session information