Location Update: The Techykids.com Booth will be in the Make: Activities Tent. See you There! TechyKids.com will be having a booth at Maker Faire (May 20-22nd in San Mateo) again this year, and is looking for volunteers! Students 4th grade and up with Thymio experience can select a spot to volunteer for with parent permission …
TechyKids held a community workshop at the Belle Haven that was free to participants! Kids of ages 7-11 had the opportunity to learn about robotics, technology and coding, getting hands on experience. The workshop was full with 11 signed up kids, with 5 boys and 6 girls participating. Kids enjoyed hours of learning, coding and …
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The TechyKids team hosted a 2 hour workshop at the Lewis and Joan Platt East Palo Alto Family YMCA for Play60. We had about 12 participants and they learned about robotics, programming, and how to build off of the Thymio robot. It was a blast!
This story was created collaboratively with Woodland’s Kindergarten class. A Lion, its baby, and the monkey Story Created by: Kindergarten 1 Class Characters: Monkey, Lion, Baby Lion Once upon a time, there were two lions. One was the momma, and one was a baby. Everywhere the momma went the little baby followed. One day a …
This project is a fully working mini drumset! It consists of a full drumset made of lego, aluminum lego, interfaced with a Makey Makey and a computer with Scratch.
This is an interactive and fun game to teach users the rules of the road so that they may pass their driver’s test.
This project is an interactive way to teach handwriting. Users see a demonstration how to write a letter and then using a pen tool creates the letter themselves. See below for project details.
This is an interactive user experience to teach someone how to play a guitar in a fun way! We used a Makey Makey and Scratch. Scroll down to see the presentation and video of our project.
This is a two player ping pong game, with a tin foil wrapped ping pong ball. Touching either side of the paddle to the ball will make the paddles on the screen move either up or down. To play the game without a Makey Make, use the up-down and left-right arrows.
This is a fun interactive version of the classic Battleship game, created using Scratch and the Makey Makey.
