Scratch - Connecting Worlds

We will be happy with children visiting the conference but have to state that neither Citilab nor Scratchweb.nl can take responsibilty. Accompanying parents or supervisors allways are responsible. Think about visiting a museum with kids, you stay with them or you make a clear agreement with them where it is uo to you what's regarded as clear. That being said: We think Citilab is a pretty, nice and safe environment and we will provide a Scarcther area where kids can tinker. They can even play outside on place next to the terrace of the bar.

Some people asked if we could provide baby sit service. We can't, but the people at Citilab think they may find somebody who can take care. Anyone from Barcelona area knowing about somebody who wants to run a kindergarten at Citilab?

We ask all attendees to only take pictures of children present with the explicit approval of the kids supervisor.

One of our younger presenters, Jacob will turn 14 July 27th is bets introduced by the proposal he made for a talk. You can learn more about him trhrough his blog or via twitter.

My name is Jacob Weinbren and I’m 13 years old. My presentation will explain how my friends and I set up and ran a Scratch Club for three years. It will outline the problems we had to overcome, and the benefits of running the club.
When I was 9, my three friends and I decided to start a Scratch club. We planned and ran weekly sessions covering a wide variety of subjects, exploring block functions and developing complex projects. 
We ran the club because we thought that Scratch would be very interesting to teach, and we wanted to challenge ourselves. Teachers played a role by supervising our activity and sometimes encouraging us. 
For each session, we first met to plan the lesson theme and to select the new block for the week.
Between 20 and 30 members attended each session. Some progressed faster than others, so we adapted our lessons to suit everyone. Each week, we used member feedback to help plan the next session. 
In 2010 we entered the UK national Y-Factor competition for innovative education with the video presented above and 

When we were aged 11 and in the final year of primary school, we trained children in the year below to take over the club. 
When we moved to secondary school, we decided to run a Scratch club there. Our IT teacher was supportive. However, we faced some problems. We had fewer members, as Scratch was part of the school curriculum. Finding a teacher who was willing to supervise us in the computer lab took months because teachers were too busy to support another club. 
The club had many benefits for its members, who had fun and learned to program. I was inspired to go on to run a YouTube Scratch channel (Mr Scratcher), and to learn to program in Java and HTML with Code Academy. 

Saturday July 27th we'll give special attention to computing and education. Shuchi Grover will be with us, she recently published on Edsurge: Learning to code isn't enough. The article is part of an interesting series on Edsurge: Teaching kids to code.

Each day will start with a plenary session and we're extremely happy to tell you that for all three of them we have two keynote speakers confirmed.

Scratch connecting worlds

Thursday July 25th: Scratch

• Karen Brennan, Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Mitch Resnick, MIT Media Lab

Friday July 26th: Tinkering with hardware

• Clive Beale, Raspberry Pi
• David Cuartielles, Malmö Unvirsity, co-founder Arduino.cc

Saturday July 27th: Education

• James Whelton, Hello World Foundation, co-founder Coderdojo
• Shuchi Grover, Stanford GSE