Author: Geeks out of the Box
This is a blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. We write this blog together, share their projects and thoughts on their journey towards self-dicovery. They’re growing up in a supportive non-coercive learning environment. We deeply believe in interest-based, self-paced education and have had to move countries to make this possible as a family.
Visit Simon’s website at https://simontiger.com/
We are a family from Amsterdam who moved to Antwerp because homeschooling is illegal in The Netherlands.
This blog started as https://antwerpenhomeschooling.wordpress.com in March 2016. Over the years, most of our entries have gravitated towards exploring together with Simon as he has developed an insatiable passion for programming, math and science. His sister Neva is treading on his heals. We changed or name to Geeks of the Box in May 2021.
Code Academy Python Courses (Continued)
Over the past week Simon has made some more progress in his Python courses. By now he has completed 5 courses. The level of the last few lessons is quite … Continue reading Code Academy Python Courses (Continued)
Astronomy classes
On Saturday Simon started his monthly classes at Urania, the local observatory.
Simon playing Borodin
From Girls Chorus (Prince Igor)
The monthly Science workshop with John Maas
The workshop went on for two hours and in a way continued after John was gone, too, as Simon is in love with his new 4V battery.
Simon’s Got Lego!
This weekend, our dear guests from Amsterdam gave Simon his first Lego set. He didn’t use to get excited about Lego but everything has changed since so many electronics building … Continue reading Simon’s Got Lego!
Digisnacks
Yesterday at Simon’s first session by the Digisnacks, a course offered by the Antwerp University’s computer science faculty. The session was about computer history, what’s inside the computer and binary language.
All About Energy
Simon has been studying energy units such as C (coulombs), V (volts) and J (joules), and the relation between them. This is one of the best video tutorials he found … Continue reading All About Energy
Sometimes it just doesn’t work
Simon was trying to program his Arduino board to use a magnetic switch to turn an LED on and off, but the code didn’t work. The LED was burning no … Continue reading Sometimes it just doesn’t work
CodeFever
Simon has been attending this weekly Scratch club CodeFever since the end of September. At the beginning they suggested placing him in the oldest group, for 12 to 15 year olds, but after … Continue reading CodeFever
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