2012_09_08_MEETING

SEPTEMBER 8TH 2012 COMPUTER CLUB JCCC MEETING

We're meeting next week, Saturday, September 8th at 9am-11am at Johnson County Community College. For 2012 we will stick to 1st saturdays of the month until further notice, or second saturdays when there's a travel conflict like this month, so we'll be meeting 2nd Saturday of September,. Please RSVP to kccomputerclub@gmail.com if you have not done so already so we can get an idea of how many students / parents are attending.

For 2012, that makes the remaining meeting dates and times:

Saturday, September 8th, 9am-11am (2ND SATURDAY OF SEPTEMBER) Saturday, October 6th, 9am-11am (1ST SATURDAY OF OCTOBER) Saturday, November 3rd, 9am-11am (1ST SATURDAY OF NOVEMBER) Saturday, December 1st, 9am-11am (1ST SATURDAY OF DECEMBER)

You might want to look through our previous Java Summer Workshop ([]) to see if anything there looks interesting, especially the Alice movie submissions and so forth, anything you'd like to cover in a future meeting would be great input from you. We'll try to have a Scratch track and a Greenfoot track at least for students who want to do either drag and drop blocks projects or coding projects.

AGENDA FOR 9/1 JOHNSON COUNTY COMPUTER CLUB 9AM-11AM MEETING:

1) VIDEO: Scratch 2.0 Preview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4UIf7gDojg 2) DEMO: MakeMakey -> http://www.makeymakey.com/ 3) PROJECT: Running, jumping and falling with Java 4) TOOL: Greenfoot utility classes - []

Location: Johnson County Community College, Regnier Center 361 (RC361) Maps to the location: [] - parking is free

Thanks! If you know anyone interested in computer club, please pass this on to them and remind them that they'll need a memory stick to save their projects on. You can download Scratch at [] and Greenfoot at [].

Thanks.

Best regards,

-- DanG Daniel Green Kansas City Computer Club

/************************* * brief bio about Daniel Green *

Daniel Green is a Senior System Engineer for Oracle Corporation, specializing in Java Embedded solutions for mobile ecosystems, smart grid environments, as well as TV and entertainment industries. Daniel is also one of several volunteer teachers and coaches in his area supporting Computer Club, FIRST Lego League and other student activities that encourage math, science and programming activities to engage students in learning. Daniel has used Java, Alice, Greenfoot, BlueJ, Squeak, Scratch and other tools to teach K-12 students and college workshops on introduction to programming. His students regularly create projects with these tools as a way of learning basic programming concepts. More information at http://jccccomputerclub.wikispaces.com/