Hi,

I recently moved back to my little village called "Indian Settlement" in Batu Gajah Perak Malaysia, where  children spend most of their time outside cycling, playing Badminton on the road and simply having fun. But sad to say most of them have not seen or played with a computer or even a smartphone. Only a handful will complete high school.

I am very determine to give these kids a future by starting a STEM or Coder Club. Telling them they can dream big without spending a lot of money.  I am hoping to reach out not only to kids but teenagers (school dropouts). You never know there might be the next Bill Gates among them!

The club will be set up at my house ( to reduce cost) and easy access  to kids around the area.

Hey, My name is Abdul Hannan Mustajab. I'm a second year mathematics student from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh in India.

Place:  I have two places with over 2000 sqft area with high speed internet connection and proper environment for kids to work at. First one is Mustajab Educational And Social Welfare Society which is an NGO which has a play school running under it while other place is Turtle Tutorials which is a highly equipped coaching center with modern facilities.

Target Age Group: Grade 8-11 or 14-16 years of age.

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Reference: I am a 20-year-old student from AMU studying mathematics. I have an experience of programming of over 5-6 years. I've been coding since I was in grade 7. I have worked with various technologies such as IOT, Machine learning, etc. I also have over 3 years of hands-on experience of boards such a Raspberry Pi, Arduino, ESP, etc. I also won interschool science makers competition two times for my IOT Based projects. I also am a member of a community of over 45000 people on instagram , (https://www.instagram.com/ml.india/ ). You can also have a look at my own profile, @hannan_mustajab.

There are other students like me who want to go deep into coding and wanna join someone who could help them and guide them through. But right now there aren't any such clubs for school students where they can go and unleash the power of programming. All that is being taught in the schools in the name of computer science is MS OFFICE and CPU Keyboard and Mouse. I could also get a professor of computer science to take some special programming classes if required. 

Thank You !

Hello, my name is Les Bower, and I would like to participate in the summer code club challenge.  I am a leader in a Boy Scout Troop in Eastern Pennsylvania, USA.  Related to STEM, I am also a committee member on our local Council’s STEM Committee, plus I serve as a merit badge counselor for Space Exploration and Robotics.  I believe a STEM curriculum for our younger generations is vital to our country and worlds future success.  I would love to implement this program in our Scout Troop; the boys ages are between 11 to 17 and we have about 12 boys.  I will teach the program during the Troop’s existing weekly meetings, and for some of the boys they will get credit during this training towards the BSA merit badge “Programming”.  Some of this training may also be in line with the BSA’s Nova Awards, which is a recognition program for those youth who research STEM pioneers and perform various experiments and tasks using the scientific method.  I will work with them each week, building on the previous weeks training and project, all while blogging our progress.  Thank you for this challenge and the opportunity to teach our youth skills that potentially will provide career opportunities for them and our benefit society as a whole in the future.

Fantastic Offer,,,,and please count on The Roanoke Robotics & Makers Club to rise to the challenge.

The Robotics Club is for all ages, and is jn cooperation with our local county library system.

The club offers Coding Club sessions every quarter, two weeks apart at the libraries, in addition to our monthly meetings which consist of a 1 hour of project sharing, Q&A etc, and a 1 hour STEM program  of various topics of interest including coding, hobby electronics, hacking and some mechanics.

Typical attendance for our coding club sessions are 20 participants.

On completion of the Summer Coding Sessions, donated kits would be accessible to the library for checkout to the community just like a book. I would maintain the experimenters kits inventory for the library, and re use for future program sessions.

The library is on board for providing their computer labs and promotions for the summer coding sessions, which would be on Saturday afternoons every other week for 6 sessions.

The robotics club has has the support from software clubs that also meet at the library, to assist with proctors and adult supervision along with library staff.

We would roughly follow the experiments provided in the experimenters kit manual for a lesson plan, with some modifications.  :-)

We would not only learn to code, but throw in some teaching on hardware and sensors.

Some background on me and the Robotics Club: I am a semi-retired electrical engineer and been running the Robotics & Makers Club for ~ 7 years.

I have done an Element14 road test with the Kitronics MicroBit Experimenters kit, please see report STEM: micro:bit Inventor's Kit - Review

I had already bought additional thermistors and 1/2 watt speakers preparing for someday to use the experimenters kit for coding sessions. The external thermistors are to use with the kit's fan motor control, so users can heat the thermistors with their fingers to turn the supplied fan control off & on.

The coding is best learned doing hands on, I hadn't solved the logistics for doing the coding lessons with only 1 kit, so my scheme has been on the back burner.

Received Experimenters Kits would be greatly appreciated help for us to promote STEM for our community. It would be more than a one shot deal, the kits would be in continuous use not only for coding club sessions, but also for students to do independent experimentation. The robotics club and the library staff would always be there for questions and support.   Thank you

Hello, my name is Nigel,

I am a school teacher in Canada and am trying to give our students who have an interest in coding the ability to learn, build, collaborate, and produce their own pieces of work. With a colleague, we are trying to start an intro to tech for students in grade 5 - 8. We are looking at running a coding camp for 5 days at the beginning of the summer to allow students to get engaged with different coding software and materials that are available to them. Between the two of us, we have started rebuilding the Technology focus in our elementary and middle schools, I think we are great candidates to run this program to get other schools on board the coding train!

We have been given the approval to use the school's computer lab for a week to let the students learn to code. At the moment we have some online coding software lined up to use but are looking for other hands-on activities that the students can show their work to friends and family. We are located in a small town, Alexandria Ontario Canada. This is the first year we are hoping to have 20 - 25 local students attend each day to learn how to code. We are hoping that this program will gain interest in students and we can start a coding club at the local schools across our school district in the following year. There are currently 22 high schools and only one of them offer a coding club.

We look forward to incorporating the Micro Bits into our coding camp this summer.

Nigel

Hello, my name is Andrei Beloiu. I have been working in the industry (mainly automotive) as an Electronics Engineer. I have also been running a STEM club for three years in local town.

My interest in micro:bit was sparked by the 2018 Great micro:bit Education Giveaway. I participated in it and was selected as one of the final winners. Interacting with the element14 community and tinkering with the parts I received gave me the tools to develop a curriculum around micro:bit. I have used it successfully in the classroom. We use both Microsoft Makecode and Micropython to develop software.

During the summer vacation I will continue the club. In fact, more students will be attending (this has been our experience every year). However, due to the fact that they will be gone with their parents during the vacation, we will do the club in short bursts (2 - 3 weeks) each centered around a larger project. Among the projects that we aim to develop:

- game console/smart name badge (micro:bit + Nokia 5510 display + buttons);

- access control unit (micro:bit + LCD/or just the 5x5 LED matrix + keypad);

- miniature home automation project (a large cardboard box as a house filled with sensors and outputs controlled by micro:bit).

I will post updates on how the technical aspects as well as the social impact of the courses.

Hello

My Name is Richu Thomas. I am a Final Year of BTech in Computer Science and Engineering. I am a Student Ambassador for various Organizations like Hacksociety, Hackerearth, Internshala, Developers Student Club.

The Club will Run in DPG Institute of Technology and Management, Gurgram, Haryana, India.

The Club will setup for all the students in Computer Science and Electronics Students (approx 200). There will be Many facilitators for the Teaching the course. I am planning to divide into a group of 10 including I facilitators so that we will be a able to teach them better considering there requirements so that more focus may be given other that 1 facilitator leading the full group at a time.

I am also the President of the Technical Society of my College (SPARC) and I have many Experiences in teaching because I was the google cloud Facilitator of my college, Conducting Seminars and Workshop, etc. I have experience in organizing Hackathons, Technical Fest,etc. I have only minimal Experience in microcontrollers but I don't want hinder my little experiences and I will give my efforts to master the skills because I my very much interested in getting my hands dirty with microcontrollers but It is more costly than software development and this Experiences will definitely great help for me as well as my college students because there is a big rise in IOT devices and it is also a great skill to master inorder to become future proof.

This is F. Yao from Beijing, China. I have participated in several Roadtests by Element14 community, such as Binary Bots: DIMM + micro:bit - Review .  I have prepared serials of Energia Lessons on TI-lauchpad MSP430G last summer and posted blogs on local BBS. It would be good if I can organize one summer code club this summer.

Where,

- In the public library in my community, where there are always volunter activities available for kids during summer holidays.

When,

- That would be 10 45-minutes lessons, during July and August, 2019.

How is the plan,

- Students can registrate their intention in community library. I have the classes prepared already, ranging from basic electrical knowledge and fundamental coding skill. 10 selective experiment and exercise shall be followed in each of the lession. Battery-powered BBC Micro:bit and mobile driven over-the-air flashing make the lesson easy to organize.

- There are extra electronic parts to buy according to my planned lessons.

How many students,

- Ten shall be fine if everything goes well.

Why,

-  As parents, I know experiments would make them interested more than instruncting, even by professional instructors. And I know many persons who is willing to organized similar code club as well. I can donote the Packs to them after I finish this summer session.

Regards,

F. Yao

Hello everyone,

http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U24REpPb7f8&t=4s

My name is David Lockett, Apple Teacher, and Microsoft Innovative Educator. I currently teach middle school CS, STEM, and Robotics.  Around 2013 I started partnering with colleges, community centers, and innovation studios to provide non-profit STEM-based camps for students to prevent summer learning loss. The result? A Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) based program with 21st-century learning activities each day. At each weekly camp, children participate in themed enrichment activities. Students also use the engineering design process to ask, imagine, plan, create, and improve when it comes to various challenges of the week.

Camp STEM brings CS, STEAM to life in new, different and fun ways. We host programs in Florida and Tennessee and have recently partnered with educational programs in Chile and South Africa. We plan on running coding clubs each week this summer with a new group of students benefiting each week. Camp STEM serves roughly 100 students in grades K-8 each week throughout the summer months of June to August. We plan on integrating computer science and coding projects that will reinforce unique learning opportunities and provide a plethora of challenges and opportunities for children that may otherwise not have the opportunity.

Projects include: soil moisture and ph,

I strongly believe we would be good candidates as our non-profit programs are open to all students., provide hands-on instruction and incorporate authentic instruction for various programming languages.  The focus on learning to inspire with micro:bit through hands-on computing with a physical device gives them something extra.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9E5AHo-D1k&t=2s 

Thank you for considering our student-centered program, programmable hardware modules, and Javascript block coding.

David Lockett

Camp STEM

We are located in Perugia, an ancient town in the center of Italy (the region is UMBRIA, also called THE GREEN HEART OF ITALY). We recently started a collaboration with a local store that sells sewing machines. They do courses for moms and people that want to learn to sew. They also sell fabrics and other stuff related to sewing. They are opened to start a project dedicated to kids where we create wearable technology and they help us to insert into dresses (or things like bags, laptops' custodies, pillows and so on).

I was thinking about small electronic components to insert in our work.

Kids will design and program the cards and our partners (you can see their instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/cuci_cuci_con_sara/ ) will insert it into a real object to wear.

Our activity will be a summer campus of 5 days from september 2 until september 6.

If we will so luky to receive the cards before the first half of july (if we will luky to receive them - we already be VERYU LUCKY!), we will use it in the CoderDojo activity (I am the champion of the CoderDojo) for the FIRST MAN ON THE MOON anniversary, that we will celebrate in our official dojo july 20th.

To see what we do: coderdojoperugia.com - webgenitori.com - happynetperugia.it

Our summer camp will be dedicated to 2 different groups:
- children 5/9 yo and their moms (max 8)

- kids from 10 to 13 y.o. (max 12)

The first group will be guided in creating programming by US

The second group will be autonomous in programming (they will be ninjas from our CodeerDojo)

Best regards from Italy,
Marco Morello