Rippowam Labs has been hard at work educating the youth of Stamford. In early October, we set up the city’s first Raspberry Pi Coder Dojo!
The Coder Dojo program is a volunteer-based global initiative to teach young people how to code and create with technology. There are more than 1900 active Dojos in 93 countries – and now there’s one in Stamford.
We’ve been meeting weekly on Thursday afternoons and our group is about 15 members strong at this point. They started with learning HTML and CSS coding … and now they will be learning Python, to control the robots they are building.
The Stamford YMCA has been a bastion of good will in the Stamford community for over a century. No matter who you are and what background you have, EVERYONE is accepted and encouraged to be their very best at the Y. It only made sense that we chose to create the Dojo there.
The most exciting part of this class is that students are realizing how fun it is to be creators of technology, rather than just passive consumers of it. We put away our cellphones at the beginning of our meetings and start coding on our Chromebooks. It’s been crazy to witness how quickly some of these kids take to coding. It seems effortless to them and I know their futures will be bright.
We’ll share our accomplishments on this web site as our adventure continues.
