Coding4All
Coding 4 all: out-of-school coding camps for girls and low-income peripheral communities empowers girls and peripheral low–income communities with the use of computer programming through out-of-school camps, where the basics of coding are taught in an innovative and informal way.
The project inspires and provides them with a basic knowledge of coding languages, promoting their interest in CS and encouraging them to choose specific university programmes and carriers in the computing fields.
The project enriches the current out-of-school camps offer from Explora and develops pilot coding camps, with the potential to be transferred to other local/regional schools, as well as to other children’s museums, in Italy and in Europe.
Project duration: January-December 2017, with summer and winter coding camps, both at Explora and in selected peripheral schools of Rome.
Project duration: 01/01/2017 – 31/12/2017
Support was provided by the Google K-12 Education Outreach Fund of Tides Foundation
The summer coding camps is a 5-day programme that includes:
- Let’s discover how a software works and let’s try to program with no computer (computer science unplugged)
- What we can do with computer science?
- Intro to Scratch and to the programming interface.
- Let’s build our first animated story
- New features available with Scratch
- Let’s design and develop our first video-game
- Intro to Scratch for Arduino and to Arduino platform
- Let’s control lights and sounds through our software
- Let’s design and build our first invention
- What is Web?
- Let’s design and build our first webpage with HTML and CSS
Let’s design and develop our first app with App-Inventor 2
The winter coding camps is a 3-day programme that includes::
- Intro to Scratch! and to the programming interface
- Let’s build our first animated story
- New features available with Scratch
- Let’s design and develop our first video-game
- Let’s design and develop our first app with App-Inventor 2