This was our proposed summer programme. The winter event will have even more surprises.
Scratch in Control: The Programme
10:00 – 10:30 Registration and Ice-Breaker – When Office isn’t Enough…
10:30 – 11:30 Hands on Session 1 – Choose from four activities
- Talk to Scratch – beginner’s projects involving sound (test drive a Picoboard)
- Scratch in the browser – practical cross-curricular projects with Snap! & Scratch 2.0
- Makey-Makey – draw your own buttons! (and more!)
- Arduino – simple and fun construction projects with S4A
11:30 – 11:45 Break for Refreshments
11:45 – 12:30 Presentations and Case Studies – Integrating Scratch
- Cross-curricular Scratch projects
- Using templates and scaffolding to build skills
- Gifted and talented – choosing the coded option
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 2:00 Presentations and Case Studies: The Web
- Assessing e-portfolios – Scratch and Google Sites projects
- Using Scratch in collaborative web-design projects
2:00 – 3:00 Hands on Session 2 – Choose from four activities
- Talk to Scratch – beginner’s projects involving sound (test drive a Picoboard)
- Scratch in the browser – practical cross-curricular projects with Snap! & Scratch 2.0
- Makey-Makey – draw your own buttons! (and more!)
- Arduino – simple and fun construction projects with S4A
3:00 – 3:30 Junk Robots and More: The next phase for conservationist.info
3:30 – 4:00 Snack and Go – time for a final play
BYOD – wifi is available
Presentations and resources distributed will be in English
Lunch will include food suitable for vegetarians
Creative Corner
Want to see a Raspberry Pi running Scratch, or experiment with an open source robot-building kit? In addition to the hands-on sessions, we will have a variety of additional kit available for you to experiment with.
Competitions and Prizes
As a little incentive, we’ll be giving out a few robotic prizes to the most imaginative solutions to the one-hour challenges set during the hands-on sessions.