After-School Club

Have you wanted to illustrate your stories in a new way? How about using the computer to tell that story? We will help you show that story of The Pink Unicorn and the Fairy in a whole new light.

This after-school club consists of using the Scratch system to illustrate and animate stories, make games and compose music.

Notes:

My local elementary school already had after schools clubs in place, so I advertised my "programming course", but disguised it in order to make it more attractive to girls.

It was a success. In my first club I had a 4-to-1 ratio of girls to boys.

I had a $5 per kid budget for the club, so I purchased some cheap USB thumbdrives and put Scratch (for both Mac and Windows) and my initial projects on it for the children. However, the school district also installed Scratch on all of the school computers.