Camera!!

After school Pi was busy again today. Many brought friends who didn't come last week and many caught on faster than before. I watched as a young girl whose partner last week didn't come until later in the class succeed at using the pi by herself. When her "partner" from last week came she asked her if she wanted to join her again. The high school girl did and it was fun to watch the younger girl bring the high school girl up to speed. I smiled as those who are familiar to the coding branched out on their own and found the games on the raspberry pi. We added the camera module and everyone had success taking pictures with their pi. We added effects and showed how to do a camera loop. We discussed different ways to add and create buttons. Buttons were difficult but the majority finally had their buttons working in the end. Next week-Action!!!

SUCCESS-MANY understood variables and I noticed their coding was not like the example. They made their own variables and remembered to insert it to make their program work.

SUCCESS-THEY retained boot up and setup directions for the Raspberry Pi.

SUCCESS-AFTER a short reminder they rembered how to open and run their programs.

SUCCESS-THEY brought more friends over, we  had 1.5 times more participants.

SUCCESS-POSITIVE role models from older people to younger people. One High School girl was overheard telling a 4th grade girl, "You keep this up and you are going to be a great programmer."