January 2017 – Fox Valley Girls Coding Club

In February, we will begin a month working with mobile apps and MIT App Inventor 2.

If you have an Android phone or tablet (even old ones), please bring them to class. App Inventor will not work with iOS devices – although we will talk about them lots!

Agenda:

Intro to Mobile App Development
Intro to MIT App Inventor
- Device Set Up
  - Connected your device to the same wi-fi that your laptop is connected to
  - If you don’t already have a QR code scanner installed on your device, you may want to get one from the google play store (not required)
  - Install the MIT AI2 Companion app from the Google Play Store on your test device
  - If you don’t want to use your Google Account on your old phone, download the app from here: http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ai2/setup-device-usb.html
- Account Set Up
  - Open up MIT App Inventor 2 on your laptop
- Magic 8 Ball http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/teach/magic-8-ball.html

Welcome Huntley GEMS Girls!!!

January 21, 2017January 21, 2017 Dottie

We are happy to welcome the 7th and 8th grade girls from Huntley High School’s First Annual GEMS (Girls in Engineering, Mathematics, and Science) Event to visit our Web site. We know you will be inspired by all of the activities and interactions the event offers and hope some of you may even want to be part of a girls coding club yourselves.

I am honored to have the opportunity to present at the event as a representative of our Fox Valley Girls Coding Club and of the Illinois Technology Foundation. Seeing the high level of interest among you girls to learn more about the technical fields is so inspiring!

Our hands-on session at the GEMS event includes an introduction to Scratch, a graphical programming language, the same one we use here at Fox Valley Girls Coding Club to get started with coding. Here are notes from the session for anyone who would like them: HHSGEMS2017 Intro to Coding

Meeting Announcements & Notes

January 27, 2017 Meeting

January 20, 2017January 26, 2017 Robin

Tonight we will be meeting at 25N.

6pm: 30-45 minute Skype chat with Sarah Sexton, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft.

6:45 – 7:45pm: Bring in the hardware! As we wrap up gaming, let’s take a look at how Raspberry Pi and Arduino are changing the way we play games.

Let’s link a couple Makey Makeys (arduino) to our snake game web pages
Piper (raspberry pi)
Ozobot (?)
Awesome Shield (arduino)

Meeting Announcements & Notes

January 13, 2017 Meeting

January 7, 2017January 12, 2017 Robin

Tonight we will be meeting at 25N.

Robotics night! We will have a guest speaker on robotics.

If you haven’t finished setting up your NetBeans development environment and have a working snake game, we can finish that during tonight’s meeting. See you there!