Everyone,
Free Open Day Event for Y1-Y6 students.
It is a really good event to explore children's interests in robotics, crafting and coding.
Address in Surry Hills: 460 Elizabeth St, Surry Hills NSW 2010
Date: 23rd July 2022, Saturday
Time:
Year 1-2: 10:10-11:10 AM
Year 1-2: 2:10-3:10 PM
Year 3-6: 11:20-12:20 PM
Year 3-6: 1:00-2:00 PM
They only allow a max of 20 students in each class. Tickets are filling up fast!
Booking page: https://stemlook.com.au/products/open-day-2022-y1-y6/
In year 10 I did an "electronics and robotics" elective at my low tier public high school. We were supposed to be programming the lego mindstorms robots to solve problems. I found the visual language extremely confusing, with the multiple colours and symbols, and also the lack of good direction meant everything devolved into robot wars (which was great fun). By now, a decade later, I've made heaps of little bots with Arduino in C++. I recently made a little "mars rover" which converts the ultrasound sensor information into an array and that way it can do more complex object avoidance. What I'm saying is this might actually frustrate kids. I mean sure, if you have a super genius kid then by all means. But in general you should only learn to code when you've at least done high school maths, otherwise how can you make sense of things? I see a screenshot of what looks like 10 year olds learning classes. It's part of this ideology that coding is the most important skill anyone could have. There's more important things for kids to than to be pressured into these stupid sessions
I was waiting for the bit where you went onto a $200k salary hah.
Educators have spent a lot of time to make coding and robotics child friendly , and there is something about commanding a physical outcome rather than something just on a screen….. Lego have tiers so simple robotic projects are rewarding with little effort and kids like Lego …. not C++ or mars rovers. Programming languages are moving along the lines of low code code such as Scratch ….. easy for kids …. Google have taken it one step further with Blocky …. similar to scratch but you then pick target and it generates the code in C++, Java, etc. … was used to develop Kubernetes. The industry is working at empowering people that aren't code cutters ….. "so simple a child can do it".
Scratch still needs a good understanding of math, It can still be frustrating and put them off the entire field if its too early.
wish i could enrol myself…
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Enroll kids in coding classes
10 years experience before graduating highschool
18 years old and Senior Developer
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200K+ profit