Teaching Kids Programming at the IOT Farm
summary
Teen User Group runs pair and mob programming so teens hit 75% girls and sustain 100% retention while doing hands-on projects. Initial Intel Edison soil-moisture sensor proves fragile and solder-heavy so the moisture-control idea stalls; Electric Imp replaces it and Electric Imp works for kids with 84 students completing an IoT build. A 23-foot Tweeting Windmill posts data but Twitter deduplication forces hacks. Raspberry Pi + Python proximity alarms and pesto taste-testing teach data collection and visualization alongside hardware assembly.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Teaching Kids Programming
- 1:47Retention Rate
- 2:34Healthy Lifestyles
- 2:56Girls Only Coding
- 6:29Boys and Girls Club
- 6:58Are we out of water
- 7:46Soil Moisture Monitoring
- 11:12Sample Output
- 11:38Twitter API
- 12:30Adding messages
- 13:14The Windmill
- 13:47The Electric Amp
- 16:04The Browser
- 19:33Pi Day
- 24:25Proximity Sensors
- 26:31Data Unplugged
- 29:09Questions
- 36:21Language
