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Our third Prewired event went smoothly, with 20 young people (about 4 new) and\r\n7 or so parents attending, plus 8 mentors. So lower signups than usual (a few\r\ncancellations due to school commitments), but we decided not to do a big\r\npublicity push and see how it ran with a smaller group. I didn't notice much\r\ndifference, since they organise themselves into smaller groups anyway to work\r\non different things. I think next time we'll try to reach our capacity of 40.
\r\nWe had a big group working on a variety of Python projects (games, basics,\r\nalgorithms, I'm not sure what else..), a small group doing front-end web, and\r\nquite a few doing amazing things with Scratch.
\r\nEvery week I discover new things these super-talented young people are doing\r\nwith their time, and it won't be long before many of them are spending a lot\r\nof time mentoring their peers as well as working on their own projects.
\r\nNantas came by to talk about what he does with the\r\nUniversity's Robotics lab, including the challenges of making humanoid robots\r\nplay football, and the state of the art, two-million-pounds, full sized\r\nhumanoid robot that is moving to Edinburgh in the near future. Definitely\r\nstuff to get young people excited about learning to code.
\r\nWe've been trying to encourage them to code between Prewired sessions, too,\r\nand about half of them said they had. I hope by the next time all of them\r\nhave, and I'm really excited to see what they're capable of making in a few\r\nmonths time!
\r\nBut...
\r\n
\r\nSome of the young people attending are disadvantaged by not being able to bring their own laptop, or having only really old laptops which can't support modern browsers and therefore have trouble even executing the JavaScript their writing (true story).
We'd love to be able to pay for a set of simple but up-to-date laptops that we\r\ncould lend to the attendees who don't have their own during sessions. This at\r\nleast will put them on a level playing field with the others during the\r\nsessions, and I suspect that many of them have adequate desktop machines or\r\nfamily laptops at home.
\r\nPrewired runs on a budget of volunteer blood, sweat and tears, and zero\r\npounds. We're lucky enough to be able to use space in the University\r\nInformatics building for free, and there are no shortage of keen mentors and\r\nhelpers willing to chip in their time (and in some cases cash for snacks).
\r\nSo if you work for a company who might be able to support the purchase of\r\nresources for our young coders, or know someone who does, then please get in\r\ntouch!
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