Fox Valley Girls Coding Club

January 11, 2019 – Meeting

Posted on January 11, 2019January 11, 2019 by Robin

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TONIGHT: Makey Makey meets Codesters – PART TWO!

It was pretty fun last time – so we are doing it again!

We will playing around with drum sets, frogger, etc with Makey Makeys, in Python on Codesters.

Here is a rough example of a drum set:

https://www.codesters.com/preview/346bfe77835a4fdca41faa40da5866fb/

Here is a fun way to make a game controller with Makey Makey and Play-Doh: https://labz.makeymakey.com/cwists/preview/1490x

And the new version of Scratch (3.0) includes a Makey Makey extension that expands its capabilities. Take a look at this example:

https://labz.makeymakey.com/cwists/preview/1996x

Join us in the boardroom at 25N at 5:45pm!

December 14, 2018 – Meeting

Posted on December 14, 2018 by Robin

TONIGHT: Makey Makey meets Codesters!

We will be making drum sets from Makey Makeys, in Python on Codesters.

Here is a rough example:

https://www.codesters.com/preview/346bfe77835a4fdca41faa40da5866fb/

Join us in the boardroom at 25N at 5:45pm!

December 7, 2018 – CANCELLED

Posted on November 30, 2018December 7, 2018 by Robin

Meeting CANCELLED! Please stay home, nice and warm and code! Or maybe go to the Geneva Christmas walk! See you December 14, 2018!

On December 7th, we will be meeting at the St Charles Library. Geneva will be hosting the Geneva Christmas Walk.

We will be re-writing the pong game that we build in the beginning of October with Scratch, in Python. We will be then seeing if we can also use a Makey Makey to play the pong game. 😉

Here is the scratch game: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/214256666/

November 30, 2018 Meeting

Posted on November 30, 2018 by Robin

PYTHON — PYTHON — PYTHON — PYTHON

Tonight, we will try out making an electronic greeting card in python – check it out:

https://www.codesters.com/curriculum/hour-of-code-2018/Making+an+E-Card/1/

Also, if anyone has any questions on their python games, we can work on those as well!

See you @ 5:45pm at 25N in Geneva!

November 16, 2018 Meeting

Posted on November 16, 2018November 17, 2018 by Robin

We will meet in the board room at 25N, in Geneva, at 5:45pm on Friday November 9, 2018. Never been there? Here is a Map

Meeting Agenda: PYTHON!!!!

Check out a few of our python games:

Robin’s Python Game – Monster Fight

Ava’s Number Guess Game!

Ali’s Magical Quest Game

You can even play them on your PHONE!

November 9, 2018 Meeting

Posted on November 7, 2018November 7, 2018 by Robin

We will meet in the board room at 25N, in Geneva, at 5:45pm on Friday November 9, 2018. Never been there? Here is a Map

Meeting Agenda:

Anyone new this week? If so, no problem!
Let’s do some code challenges in Repl.it
- Python Adventure on repl.it
Let’s dig into even more Python!

November 2, 2018 Meeting

Posted on November 1, 2018November 1, 2018 by Robin

We will meet in the board room at 25N, in Geneva, at 5:45pm on Friday November 2, 2018. Never been there? Here is a Map

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Meeting Agenda:

Anyone new this week? If so, no problem!
Let’s dig into more Python!

October 19, 2019 Meeting

Posted on October 12, 2018October 26, 2018 by Robin

We will meet in the board room at 25N, in Geneva, at 5:45pm on October 19, 2018.

Never been there? Here is a Map

Meeting Agenda:

Welcome & Introductions
- Anyone new this week? If so, no problem!
- Anyone have something new to share?
Made with Code https://www.madewithcode.com/
- Music Mixer
- Avatar
Brief chat about different programming languages
Intro to Python (still deciding between)
- PythonRoom
- CodeMonkey Python Chatbot

October 12, 2018 Meeting – Welcome!

Posted on September 28, 2018October 12, 2018 by Robin

We will meet in the board room at 25N, in Geneva, at 5:45 on October 12, 2018.

Never been there? Here is a Map

Meeting Agenda:

Welcome & Introductions
- What are the general interests of the group this year?
Review the 2018-19 Schedule
- Any Hack-A-Thons or events we would like to participate in as a group?
- Any technologies that we are missing from the schedule that need to be added or removed?
What are some key concepts of computer science that we will learn tonight?
- Events
- Conditionals
- Loops
- Variables
Intro to Scratch – https://scratch.mit.edu/
- Girl Scout Cookie Pong (PDF)
- Let’s Play the finished game first: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/214256666/
- Let’s build it! START HERE: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/214389405/
- Want to learn more? Intro to Scratch
What’s Next? Let’s pick a few projects from Made with Code (https://www.madewithcode.com/) to work on during our next few meetings!

See you at our first meeting of the 2018-19 school year!

2018-19 FVGCC Schedule

Posted on August 20, 2018October 12, 2018 by Robin

Fox Valley Girls Coding Club will meet for the 2018-19 school year on Friday evenings from 5:45 p.m.-7:45 p.m. at 25N Coworking on River Street in downtown Geneva. FVGCC is open to all girls, ages 14-18. Limited spaces are available so please sign up now! Contact us at fvgcc12@gmail.com.

Technologies

October 2018 – December 2019: We will start with the basics of programming

Scratch (https://scratch.mit.edu/) for a week or so.
Made with Code (https://www.madewithcode.com) for a week or so.
Python (https://pythonroom.com) for at least a few weeks.
Modern JavaScript (HTML and CSS) and perhaps React Web Development.

January – February 2019: AI

AI / Machine Learning workshop with Xamarin – Perhaps building this cool project to use Azure Cognitive Services to identify stuffed animals from a mobile phone.
Alexa Skills – Conversational AI
Slack bots?

March 2019: Project

Library Database of Seeds

April 2019: Gadget Month

Awesome Shield has a pretty cool Arduino based hardware shield that can be used with their Ardiuno library in Adruino Studio. This might be a good stepping stone to more advanced bread-boarding with Arduino and Arduino Studio if the girls want to go in that direction! In the past, the girls have also used Makey Makeys to play the games they have built. We could take those to the next level and use some of the more advanced keyboard features. Robin also has a Hololens, Ozobot, Rasberry Pis to play with! Also, we can design models for 3D Printing using TinkerCad.

Meeting Schedule 2018-19

October
- 12
- 19
- 26
- 27 NIU STEMfest
November
- 2
- 9
- 16
- 30
December
- 7 – remote meeting?
- 14
January
- 11
- 25
February
- 1
- 8
- 22
- 23-24 Hucky Hack NIU
March
- 8
- 15
- 22
April (Gadgets)
- 5
- 12
- 26
May 3 – Last Class Cinco de Mayo Party!