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Coderdojo Tanzania

30/8/2016

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First meeting

Coderdojo Debrabant
Saku
Dar Es Salaam
Tanzania

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Enthusiastic teachers!
On Tuesday 2nd of August, the first Tanzanian Coderdojo ​opened its doors. Coderdojo is a free programming club for children and teenagers. It began in Ireland in 2011 and now there are over 1,100 clubs in 63 (now 64!) countries around the world.
Debrabant Secondary School is very fortunate to have two computer labs, a cinema room and very enthusiastic computer teachers. Along with two other volunteers we decided it was time to use all this technology and get the pupils coding. 
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Mentors at the first dojo: Teachers Paulina, Equillax, Éilis & Volunteer Nelson
20 pupils signed up to join the Tuesday club and such was the interest, it was decided to run a second club on Thursdays for another 20 pupils. We began the session in the cinema room showing a finished game on Scratch. Needless to say, this sparked the teenagers interest! We then went through Lesson 1 from ICS skills, set a challenge and then it was time to code!
The verdict? A resounding success. All pupils involved were so interested and engaged. In fact, they would not go home! We went back to the cinema room to show the next skill and set the second challenge and the ninjas paired up, collaborated and discussed how to get their sprites moving up and down and over and back. We worked on an aquatic theme that day and there were some very interesting swimming on some screens! Overall the buzz, the laughter and the engagement made it a hugely successful first Coderdojo in Tanzania. 
The pupils of Debrabant are so lucky to have 3 wonderful computer teachers: Paulina, Equillax (Dojo Champion) and Reginald. We were also lucky to secure two volunteers: Nelson and Rodney. Rodney is the computer teacher in COBET and I have a feeling he could very well be the champion of the 2nd Coderdojo of Tanzania very soon. 
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