Name: Karel
Titeca Dojo: Dendermonde
Dojo meets in: Jeugddienst Dendermonde
Dojo was founded in (month, year): September 2014
Number of coaches (on average): 8
Number of kids (on average): 30
What makes
your Dojo special?
Our Dojo is as special as any other Dojo. Every Dojo has its unique coaches and unique kids. Our Dojo is located at a very central location in Dendermonde, at the “Jeugddienst” in the beautiful library of Dendermonde. At the moment, we have one unique track that no other Dojo in Belgium has: the Bitsbox track. Bitsbox is a sort of framework on top of JavaScript that makes it easy for kids to build visual games (like in Scratch) on a virtual tablet, but with real code instead of draggable blocks. I am working with some coaches of other Dojos to translate and license Bitsbox for use in other Belgian Dojos and the US-based founders of Bitsbox are very excited about this. So, I hope we will lose our uniqueness about this track very soon. :-)
Our Dojo is as special as any other Dojo. Every Dojo has its unique coaches and unique kids. Our Dojo is located at a very central location in Dendermonde, at the “Jeugddienst” in the beautiful library of Dendermonde. At the moment, we have one unique track that no other Dojo in Belgium has: the Bitsbox track. Bitsbox is a sort of framework on top of JavaScript that makes it easy for kids to build visual games (like in Scratch) on a virtual tablet, but with real code instead of draggable blocks. I am working with some coaches of other Dojos to translate and license Bitsbox for use in other Belgian Dojos and the US-based founders of Bitsbox are very excited about this. So, I hope we will lose our uniqueness about this track very soon. :-)
Bitsbox is a sort of framework on top of JavaScript that makes it easy for kids to build visual games (like in Scratch) on a virtual tablet, but with real code instead of draggable blocks.
Some good
advice for other coaches:
Do not
offer more tracks than you can handle. When we were starting up, we wanted to
offer as much as possible, and there were so many fun things to choose from:
Scratch, all kinds of Scratch-based environments, JavaScript, Python, Unity,
MaKey MaKey, Arduino, Mindstorms, littleBits, … That was fun for the kids, but
it was more than we could manage as a group of coaches. Since we have limited
the number of possibilities, things are running much smoother. J
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