Eric and all,

Here are my notes from the STEM discussions.


Snap Circuits - a lego type electronics education kit.  I recommend the 300
or 500 size kits.  At 8 my son can solo follow plans and build a FM radio
receiver that works.

Lightbot - program logic thinking for young kids.

Scratch -  visual object programming via flash website.
. . . . . . code.org -  sample scratch programs

Alice 3 - app is not very stable.
. . . . . .  - more powerful and complex items

Squeak -

What-if. Xkcd.com

Theoatmeal.com

Rasberry pi robot

Tim included some ther non kid / STEM discussion about the systems tools
with Hadoop for rapid system building & clustering.


Since the meeting I found two more I plan to try with my 8 year old. .

Dragonbox Algebra -  unique app for learning Math. & Algebra. . IOS & Android.

MIT App Inventor - web app development which will also work on phones &
tablets.

Hope this helps,

Joel


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