Click here to play the arcade game created at our October CoderDojo!
We held the second CoderDojo event of 2017 on 21 October 2017. This was our first German language Dojo and we used local Baar schools and our Facebook group to reach local children and parents.
As before we had two morning sessions and two afternoon sessions:
- Morning girls only grade 2-3: Programming with LEGO WeDo 2.0 robots
- Morning girls only graded 4-6: Make an arcade game with GameMaker Studio
- Afternoon boys and girls grade 2-3: Programming with LEGO WeDo 2.0 robots
- Afternoon boys and girls graded 4-6: Make an arcade game with GameMaker Studio
The day flew past and the mentors, parents and the little ninjas had a lot of fun!
We got great feedback from the parents, specifically about our GameMaker session. While the kids and parents enjoyed the session, the version of the commercial software we used is no longer available for sale, and the kids could not continue their projects at home. Next year we will do a different activity with the older kids that will make use of some free software that the kids can download and use at home.