2025-09-03

16:25 PM CEST

Richard Millwood

Happy birthday TurtleStitch! Ten years after Andrea Mayr first presented Turtlestitch with a masterclass in Amsterdam, there are many reasons to celebrate. Over the last ten years, TurtleStitch has won the hearts of children, artists and educators around the world. In this birds-of-a-feather Turtlestitch enthusiasts will celebrate and share what they have made and how they have done it.

Seminar Room 2
Online
Birds of a Feather (BoF)

Glen Bull

There have been notable advances in Snap! projects that interact with the physical world during the past year. The addition of the MicroBlocks library to Snap! has facilitated this work. This library extends the Snap! Broadcast block so that it can communicate with sensors, motors, and actuators connected to microcontrollers. Provision of a standard built-in method in Snap! for communicating...
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Plenary Room
Online
Birds of a Feather (BoF)

16:55 PM CEST

Dan Garcia, Mary Fries

The BJC Sparks team have spent the summer of 2025 thinking about how to take all the amazing AI demos we've recently seen and incorporate straightaway or boil them down into middle-or-high-school-appropriate labs and activities. We'd love to hear from others who have been doing this! This will be a chance for all participants to share equally about their activities in the same space, and to ...
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Plenary Room
Online
Birds of a Feather (BoF)

Michael Ball, Brian Harvey, Victoria Phelps

The official Snap! Reference Manual hasn't been updated since version 8. We are converting it to an online format, with a Github repository to which anyone can make contributions. The conversion process is theoretically automated, but turns out to need a lot of human TLC to make it really look right. Come to this BOF if you're interested in contributing either to the conversion i...
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Seminar Room 2
In person
Birds of a Feather (BoF)

17:25 PM CEST

Uwe Geisler

The Call for Snap!Con 2025 proposes to 'share with us your insights and materials, spread the wisdom, the gimmicks and the awesomeness!'

As an observer of the snap! community almost from the beginning I do know there are tons of world class materials not only for CS/programming but also for various didactical domains including mathematics, music, mechanics, robotics and many others. ...
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Plenary Room
Online
Birds of a Feather (BoF)