The social Simon
I was mesmerized to see how caring Simon was towards a much younger child visiting us from abroad. Simon interrupted his autodiductive learning to engage with our guest in playing games and … Continue reading The social Simon
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Lego Mindstorms
Digisnacks, an electronica course at Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool Antwerpen, has started again. This time it’s Lego Mindstorms 2. Simon didn’t follow the Lego Mindstorms 1 course but studied how the set … Continue reading Lego Mindstorms
Simon’s monthly Astronomy class
The monthly Astronomy class at the Urania observatory today was about telescopes and the history of observing the nightly skies:
Astronomy Classes
On Saturday Simon had his second astronomy workshop at the local observatory. The pages below is “homework”. He wasn’t particularly enthusiastic doing it but found tasks 4, 5 and 8 intriguing … Continue reading Astronomy Classes
Examples of projects from Simon’s Code Fever class
Here are some examples of the tasks and projects Simon makes at his weekly Code Fever classes where they’re currently learning about conditional logic. This one he quickly made tonight … Continue reading Examples of projects from Simon’s Code Fever class
Astronomy classes
On Saturday Simon started his monthly classes at Urania, the local observatory.
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.
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
Geeks out of the box 