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Back Bay Students Learn to Code At Fun After School Event

The Young Coders Society worked with a small group of students at a residence in Boston’s Back Bay.  With parents on hand, the students took turns introducing themselves and talking about the different places they have seen computers and the different devices that are run by computers.  We talked about how computers come in all shapes and sizes and how people who know how to program them are able to use their imagination to create fun things.  Each student unboxed and assembled a Raspberry Pi and took turns guessing about what each of the components was used for and how all of the pieces worked together.  Once assembled, we navigated to the Raspberry Pi desktop and took a tour of Scratch, Minecraft, Python and Sonic Pi.  Finally, the group watched videos highlighting some of the creative projects that other people have done and did some brainstorming on projects that they would like to try.