Apps Programming Workshops at Escola Almirante Carvalhal
More than 50 elementary school students from Almirante Carvalhal Elementary School have had the opportunity to participate in an app programming workshop.
As part of the Young Tutors 2018 project activities, mobile application programming workshops for elementary school students are being applied at Almirante Carvalhal Elementary School by Young Tutors in conjunction with Volunteer Mentors, supported by members of the Computação na Escola and the school’s Educational Technology teachers.
At these three-hour-long workshops, participating students learn how to develop an app “Encontre-me” that lets the user share the his/her location. Participants have the opportunity to first get in touch with mobile programming, learn programming concepts and computational thinking, and leave the workshop taking their first app home!
These workshops are part of the 2018 Youung Tutors project, coordinated by the initiative Computação na Escola / INCoD / INE / UFSC and sponsored by the company Involves Technologia e Inovação. Aiming at teaching computing in elementary education in Brazilian schools, the objective of the project is to train Young Tutors (elementary students) and Volunteer Mentors (IT professionals) to program mobile applications. These Young Tutors and Volunteer Mentors are supporting the teaching of computing in public schools with the goal of reaching more students. The project also contributes to the training of Young Tutors in the area of computing, providing learning and contact with professionals of the area, bringing practical experience to the participants.
Companies / organizations interested in sponsoring other projects of Young Tutors can contact the Computing in School initiative by phone (48) 3721-7380 / (48) 3721-4715 or via email: computacaonaescola@incod.ufsc.br
