Project Hacking and Demos

Join us for two hours of coding with friends using Scratch, Twine, Raspberry Pi and more. Everyone will have a chance to demo their projects at the end of the meeting.

If you're a high school student, feel free to bring a project that you've been working on or give a short intro to a technology that you've been using. We always can use mentors, so if you're a software engineer, electronics guru or you just want to help kids learn how to code, contact us about helping out at our meetings.

If you have a laptop, please bring it to the meeting. Installing some tools on the laptop beforehand is recommended. Twine 1.4 can be installed from https://twinery.org . Scratch 2.0 is web-based, but an offline editor can also be installed from https://scratch.mit.edu/download . This might come in handy if wifi is unavailable or too slow. But if you don't know what to do, just come to the meeting and we'll help you out.

Important: Ages 7 to 17 are welcome, but children 12 and under MUST be accompanied by an adult for the entire meeting. Bringing a friend or two is fine, but please, no large groups.

Parking: Our meeting location is circled in green below. The nearest free parking lots are circled in red. Street parking is free on Sundays, but may not be available. The library will validate parking for 2 hours in the lots in Rockville Town Square.

If you don't mind walking a couple blocks, the parking lot at 11 N Washington St is free. It is on the corner of Courthouse Sq and Washington St with an entrance right after the traffic light on Courthouse Sq. A second option is the COB parking garage on E. Jefferson and Monroe which is larger and also free. See rockvilleparking.com (http://rockvilleparking.com/) for other parking lots.

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Metro: If you are coming by metro, exit the station to the left and take the pedestrian bridge over Rockville Pike. Walk straight for block after the bridge and make a right to get to town square.