Organizing conferences for learners: How we made it work in Namibia
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Organizing a learner-focused conference in Namibia scales differently: funding comes from ticket sales plus grants from the Python Software Foundation and the jungle project and Cardiff University’s Phoenix project, hardware teaching uses Raspberry PI's for teaching 10 students, and projects include student-made Visual Basic and Python applications shown as software apps and poster presentations. Attendance reaches about 50–60 learners (target was ~250), decoration and active short breaks prove decisive, and a student team wins second place in a programming contest.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:42How we came up with the name
- 6:15Three focus areas
- 7:52Talks
- 11:02School visits
- 11:40Presentation
- 13:25Behavior
- 14:04Expectations
- 14:58Fun Games
- 16:16Speakers
- 17:42Funding
- 19:13Decorations
- 19:50Importance of conferences
- 20:48Inspiring computing careers
- 21:15Exploring different sectors
- 21:29Challenges for learners
- 21:47Next Python conference
- 23:29Computer day
- 23:40Stickers
- 24:05lanyards
- 24:16education trick
- 24:32government support
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