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Jul 20, 2019

Maker month kicks off today !

Today 16 students and pykids begin a month long adventure into making and engineering! The program at ASDRP allows young minds to explore , research and make.

The theme this year is “Robotics” and the children are all set to design and create fun and…

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Jul 8, 2019

DIY Christmas Ornaments in Maker Faire 2019

This year “pykids” had an opportunity to showcase their DIY Christmas ornaments…

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Jun 13, 2018

Summer 2018 — Its a wrap …

Pykids advanced classes completed on June 7th with some exercises , some laughs and sharing jokes.

The children are slowly becoming adept at using and sharing Azure notebooks. Writing Python functions is becoming more natural.

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May 30, 2018

Shiny New Curriculum

Pykids curriculum is getting a makeover! The curriculum is now designed into Beginner and Advanced notebooks. More examples and fun recipes are being added. We have also moved to using Azure Notebooks , which are easy to use , share and work with github!

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Jan 13, 2018

Pykids, AWS Educate and Olive Children Foundation

Pykids has got excellent support from two sources , AWS Educate https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/apply/ and Olive Children foundation http://www.olivechildren.com/

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Nov 21, 2017

Oops — loops …

Feedback is coming in from kids and it is uplifting …. “Python coding is one of the best after school class” and they “look forward to it”. Wow!

After a quick review of the previous classes we started on the funnest class “loops”.

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Nov 5, 2017

Of numbers and strings …

Class 2 saw a few new faces which was fun! However we did have technical glitches with Jupyter notebook server on AWS. After a fresh reboot we were off to work …

First a quick recap of Lesson1 , discussing computing terms like binary, debugging and compiler in…

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Oct 26, 2017

Pykids fall 17 classes begin …

And we are off again … first class today with a bunch of curious kids from 6th, 7th and 8th grades. First day is always a slower start … but the class warms up fast