Anonymous
Post 09/03/2019 14:49     Subject: Good robotics/coding class for a 9-hr old obsessed with both? 22043

My kid has done a couple camps at Coder Kids in McLean and really enjoyed them. He also did a funbots camp this summer and liked that too. We may try to find a lego robotics activity.
Anonymous
Post 09/02/2019 00:30     Subject: Good robotics/coding class for a 9-hr old obsessed with both? 22043

In defense of the mom, as a 9-year-old kid, I was obsessed with coding on my little Apple IIe. I would have LOVED to have classes. Instead, I got all the coding books and magazines that I could get my hands on (not many since my parents didn't have the money to buy them), and taught myself.

Honestly the best way to learn to code once you get some basics down is to do lots of personal projects and struggle through it. The Internet will provide plenty of examples and tutotrials at this point. You learn a lot in the process of self-teaching.

I went on to major in computer science and am now an exec at a tech company. Many of the other students I met in engineering school had similar stories -- obsessed with coding since elementary school.

Anonymous
Post 09/01/2019 18:25     Subject: Good robotics/coding class for a 9-hr old obsessed with both? 22043

Look up Mindframe--they are out of Loudoun County but have some satellite programs.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2019 22:57     Subject: Re:Good robotics/coding class for a 9-hr old obsessed with both? 22043

Anonymous wrote:Find a first Lego league team. In Maryland, Rockville Robotics can help connect you to other potential team mates, but I don't know of an equivalent Virginia group.


+1 There's a VA-DC group: https://va-dcfll.org/

It has a "find a team" feature, but your best bet is to see if there is one through your school, PTA, or local community organization.

Anonymous
Post 08/31/2019 15:56     Subject: Re:Good robotics/coding class for a 9-hr old obsessed with both? 22043

Find a first Lego league team. In Maryland, Rockville Robotics can help connect you to other potential team mates, but I don't know of an equivalent Virginia group.
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2019 22:31     Subject: Good robotics/coding class for a 9-hr old obsessed with both? 22043

Sorry, can't ignore the quintassential DCUM thread where a mom is agonzing over her 9 hour old child obsessed with robotics and coding.
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2019 22:23     Subject: Good robotics/coding class for a 9-hr old obsessed with both? 22043

Title says it all. I have a third grader who LOVES coding and robotics and has taken tons of classes at Rec Centers. I think he's outgrowing those, and I'd love to get him into a more serious program, ideally with a yearlong curriculum, but don't know of any. Generation Code in Vienna has closed. Do you all have any ideas?