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Programming Week and project “Teacher for Russia”: How did the children's hackathon in schools go
On October 20 and 21, 2017 in Voronezh was held by Jam-Hakaton “Oak with a Cat ” for schools of partners of the project , a teacher for Russia . The event was held as part of the European Field of Programming and Youth Initiative of Meet and Code.
4 schools and 118 students took part in Hakaton:
- Secondary school No. 47 of the city of Voronezh (60 participants, 5-9th grades);
- Secondary school No. 1 of the city of Kozelsk, Kaluga region (13 participants, 5-9 grades);
- Nikiforovskaya secondary school No. 1, Tambov region (22 participants, 5-9 grades);
- Semiluk secondary school No. 1, Voronezh region (18 participants, 5-9 grades).
The students faced the task of creating an educational game for any of the school curriculum. Schoolchildren united in teams from 2 to 5 people and began to develop the main idea of the game and its mechanics using the SCRATCH programming language. As a result, for 2 days of work, the team presented 23 games.
Jam Hakaton in Voronezh: how it was
On Friday, the children gathered for 7 lesson, and after 3 hours of teamwork they told each other the mechanics of their games.
At the end of the Hakaton, schoolchildren were waiting for the protection of projects to the jury, finding answers to their tricky questions and the first interview about their game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgza9vznwns
“I have never stayed at school for so long,” said one member of Hakaton, and isn't this the best feedback? ” Elena Yarmanova, organizer of Khakaton
If you want to spend a jam-Hakaton at your school, the organizers sank a detailed description of how to do it.
The organizers of the pem-Hakaton “Oak with a Cat”: Elena Yarmanova, Roman Pryers, Anastasia Guzanova, Irma Derkach.