Teching Up Your Teen Programming

Teching Up Your

Teen Programs

Kristen Curé

Latino Liaison Librarian

YALSA Teen Tech Week Grant

LuCinda Gustavson

Teen Librarian

When you haven't got a clue!

and you haven't got much money!

Easy Tech with very little tech

Light up ninja warriors

light up the night

www.leading-leds.com

click on "x-types: cheap LEDs

Extra equipment needed to record sound

make something with scratch

sound editing with audacity

play games

train teens to teach classes

expand your tech workshops into an ongoing program & reach a wider audience

a paid internship

9 training sessions

adult mentors & career exploration

teens each 5 classes

youth driven

python games

minecraft

make a game

draw

animate

Program Minecraft with python

Invite a techie to volunteer

What do we do?

program other games with

install

• Tutorials for simple projects are awesome!

• Volunteers for more complicated programming projects are even better!

install

3-d Drawing

it's all free!

Free resources & tutorials

Questions?

don't forget!

#3

• Programming projects need more than one session

• Consecutive days are better than once a week or once a month

you can find almost anything!

• Save work on SD cards

• Remember who saved on which SD cards

• Label the SD cards!

3-d Pen

What to buy

questions?

220 linear feet in 11 colors

Extra Filament

$25.00

Afunta 3D Pen

$ 59.90

Tech up your teen programs!

• Spend little $

• Look smart

• Get your hands dirty

• Have fun!

LuCinda Gustavson lgustavson@springfield-or.gov

Kristen Curé kcure@springfield-or.gov

What to Scrounge?

What to Buy?

Setting It All Up

What is it?

• Fun projects
• Minecraft
• Scratch

The Pis

Less is more

Raspberry Pi 1

Raspberry Pi 2

• Format the SD cards
• Follow the instructions
• Yes, you have to do it all
• Downloading the software
• Number the SD cards

• Step by step instructions
• Clearly written

Have extras of everything

because something will not work.

The Space

• Free online tutorials
• Play in your program

• Useful to have a projector or large TV monitor
• Internet or WiFi connection
• Large -vs- small room
• Number & distance to outlets
• Lots of extension cords
• Mats to cover the cords

$69.99

$84.99

Not all power strips

are created equal

• Need 2 outlets for each station
• 3 if using speakers
• The large plug-in ends may cover adjacent outlets.

• 1 GB RAM
• 4 USB Ports
• $35.00

The Time

• Buy 2- one to circulate and one to keep.

• 256 MB RAM
• 2 USB Ports
• $35.00

• Raspberry pi unit
• power source
• MicroSD card
• Case (preferable clear)
• HDMI cable
• WiFi dongle (optional)

• Give yourself extra time to set up- something will go wrong
• Do a dry run to test all of the equipment

HDMI Adapter

www.monoprice.com

Questions?

What is it?

What to buy?

-vs-

$20.99

$87.76

Once again, less is more

What to do

Questions?

What is it?

How does it work?

What to Buy

$49.99

What to Scrounge

Anything that might conduct electricity!

What to Do

Musical keyboards & game controllers of all types

www.makeymakey.com/howto

• ready to go projects on

flash does not work on Raspberry Pi

• program your own with Scratch

Teens create all parts

Electrical Engineering:

creating the complete circuits with found materials to make the Makey Makey work

Software Engineering:

using Scratch to write a program to use with the Makey Makey

Manufacturing:

creating the game pieces with the 3-D pen

Balloon piano

Musical Steps

Ta-da!

Singing Christmas Tree

questions?

Human Circuit

Life size Operation

LuCinda Gustavson lgustavson@springfield-or.gov

Kristen Curé kcure@springfield-or.gov