Arduino Day Learn & Code with Arduino and Awesome Shield Workshop
Details
Two years ago we started Awesome Shield to make it fun and easy for kids to learn to code for hardware.
What's Arduino Day?
Arduino is an extremely powerful platform that is used to build everything from hobby projects, to robotic art installations, and satellites (there's an actual Arduino satellite in space!). Awesome Shield teaches you how to code with Arduino and hardware. Getting started with Arduino will unlock your inner coder, and put you on a path to build incredible things that can interact with people and the real world.
Arduino day is Arduino's birthday, and we're super excited to celebrate it with you!
We want to give a HUGE shoutout to Labfolder (https://www.labfolder.com/), who has very kindly offered us their office for this event.
COME & LEARN WITH US!
Come check out Awesome Shield, and get hands-on with some coding!
Learn to write you first lines of code with our brand new videos and hardware! Be one of the first to see what we've been working on all this time.
If you've been to a past event – we definitely have some new stuff for you to try out and we'd love to say thanks for helping us improve Awesome Shield along the way!
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Learn to Code, and Build a Project!
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This event is for absolute beginners. We'll introduce you to Arduino, a tiny computer that you can program to do anything you can imagine. You'll write your first lines of code, and watch them come alive through the magic of hardware. Before the end of the event, you'll be coding your very own project. If you've come to our events before, you're welcome to come hang out and do some coding!
Awesome Shield is for Everyone
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We created Awesome Shield with ages 10-16 in mind. But we've had folks between 8 and 80 write their first lines of code with Awesome Shield, and love it! Everyone is welcome.
Bring Family or a Friend
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Bring a family member or a friend, and learn together! Working in pairs is tons of fun, and great for learning.
Format
You'll start off by learning some coding basics in a hands on introduction. Then you'll pick a project to work on, and will code it into existence using your newfound skills, and the help of our friendly Awesome Shield mentor, Chris.
What to Bring
You will need to bring a laptop computer and headphones with you. Ideally, it should be running a Mac or Windows operating system. If you run linux, please install the Arduino IDE on your linux computer (http://playground.arduino.cc/Learning/Linux) before you come, as this can take a long time on a Linux machine.
Language
This event will be in English, as we don't have our learning materials in any other languages yet. We'll let you know just as soon as other languages are available. If you're bringing a kid or a friend who isn't fluent in English, that's no problem.
Join the Community, and Tell Your Friends
Love Awesome Shield, coding, and hardware as much as we do? Tell your friends, and the world :-)
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