August Kids Hacker Camp {Maker - Breaker Day}

Originally written by +Wachira Ndaiga and published by +Angela Okune both of the +iHub 

Kids Hacker Camp is week-long camp hosted at +iHub which is Nairobi’s Innovation Hub for the technology community. The camp is aimed at kids and teens aged 7 to 18 years, who are drawn to and interested in crafting, hacking, discovering and tinkering. The camp is envisioned and designed to provide an engaging platform on which children and teens can interactively learn, explore and build; spurring them to understand the world around them, analogue and digital. This exposure and tutelage will then go on to help them build skills in design/creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and self-confidence.

This edition of the Kids Hacker Camp focuses on System Thinking through Physical Computing. We believe that an understanding of how different agents within the environment interact will go a long way in helping the students learn about the world around them {Science}. The physical computing plugs in to provide them with an avenue to understand how one can purposefully interact with this environment for desired outputs, i.e. using hardware to sense, compute and actuate.

The Camp will run from the 18^th to the 22^nd of August, with a showcase held on the 23^rd of August {Saturday}.

New to this edition, we will be holding our first ‘Maker-Breaker Day’ on the 9^th of August from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm during which the kids’ interests will be identified and their capabilities assessed. The students will be tentatively grouped in four categories - Gaming, Electronics, Programming and Crafting. This will be done in an effort to initially encourage growth in their personal areas of interest, gradually building off of these into new topical areas. The Maker – Breaker Day is a free, requisite event for the kids who will take part in the August Kids Hacker Camp. All students will be required to carry packed lunch and snacks for the Maker - Breaker day.

To find out more about how you can go about registering your child for The Kids Hacker Camp: Maker – Breaker Day and the following Kids Hacker Camp: Marker Week, please visit this site where you will find the registration form and a contact you can reach out o for more information.

I really wish I had these things when I was growing up because I might be ruling the world as we speak {cue evil laughter}. But times are changing and things are getting better! So probably by the time I get little Jackies {Jacklets, Jacklings? No?}, children will be learning this stuff in the nursery! LOL! 

Anyway, with that said if you know anyone who would be interested in this, help spread the word. Kids are the future…let’s invest in them!

Thank you for reading.

Do have a lovely day!

#HappyDays