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After a lesson in which the children taught the rest of the class, I ask the 'teachers' and pupils what they thought of it. Year 7 have been introduced to Python programming, the lesson focus has been integers, operators, expressions and variables

At the end of our family computing event, I interview some of the parents, grandparents and children that have taken part. Listen to what they say about the event.

At the start of the evening I noticed a parent who seemed a little sceptical about the contribution she could make to an evening for families to create computer games together. I decided to take a risk and ask her to be an impartial observer and gather feedback throughout the evening. Listen to her impressions here

This games creation event used Scratch software as the method for families to create games. I asked some of the children, parents, grandparents and some teachers what their opinions of Scatch were.

Just after the evening has started, I interview a few people to find out the first impressions of the evening.

Sam describes her interest in the forthcoming Hack To The Future event on 11th February. She also describes what she might speak about and what her workshop will be about.

During our first 'hackademy' event, some children tried prototyping new devices and inventions using Arduino boards. Listen to a 12 yr old describe his new invention.

We held our first 'Hackademy' event today at our school. During the morning break I went around and asked the children what they had been doing. Listen to their responses.