Following the evaluation from the summer camp, this camp featured a number of new initiatives:
- a Gitlab repository for issue tracking and storing / versioning the teaching material
- a DIY robot kit for each participant
- a booklet containing all the tutorials to bring back home
3D-printing workshop
Arduino programming and robotics
Technical tree-climbing and a 30 kg water bomb
Lunch break
RSA crypto (aka. hash production!) workshop. Code.
Dancing project. Gitlab issue.
Presentations on the last day of the camp
Differential equations / N-body and gravitational systems
Graphical design and T-shirt printing
Water filtering and distillation. Gitlab issue.
Evaluation
What to keep:
- sleep-over
- personal projects
- tree-climbing
- lunch
- drawing in Gimp
- Scratch
- 3D-printing
- electronics starter kit and tutorial booklet
- presentations
- take into consideration the evaluation from the previous camp
- brainstorm using a yarn ball
- posting on social media
What to improve
- use the term “quests” instead of “issues”
- keep track of who has completed which workshops on a list
- consider the role of Scratch on the camp / learning objectives
- turn the water analysis initiative into an actual workshop
- remember to have the OpenSCAD tutorial as part of the booklet
- spread out the presentation over the last three days rather than the last day
- have a clear printer queue (A4 piece of paper) for the 3D printer
- delegate more tasks to the participating parents