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Building the Future If you've been following this newsletter at all lately, you'll have a sense of our commitment to LiveCode in Education. The latest show we've attended was the Scottish Learning Festival, this week, and I hear it went extremely well. Below is a photo for you and feedback from Caroline, but first I'd like to update you on a student success story. Scorekeeper App
Jarren has now sent me a link to his app, released on the Apple App store: DescriptionWith the FIRST LEGO League Senior Solutions Scorekeeper, your team can now easily time, score, save, and share your robot game progress! Intuitive visual controls clean the screen of unneeded text, showing only the information you need. Scores are instantly saved, and can be viewed and shared at any time! Information about each mission, along with the full rules are also available from within the app! Help support FIRST LEGO League Team "The Sharks"! And track your scores in the simplest FLL scoring app!
Well done Jarren! This looks great, and you should be proud! Scottish Learning Festival This festival took place on Wednesday and thursday this week, and was attended by over 6000 delegates including Michael Russell, the Scottish Minister for Education, and of course Kevin Miller, CEO RunRev Ltd, and Caroline Finlay, our Sales and Marketing manager. By all accounts it went extremely well, and we talked with many influential educators who demonstrated a sincere interest in moving programming up the agenda for schools. There was a lot of interest from teachers who had actual experience of teaching students programming and they recognised the considerable value of LiveCode in terms of ease of use especially in today's app driven world. An additional plus point the teachers called out was that LiveCode is OS agnostic, many schools have a hybrid infrastructure which includes Mac, Win and many teachers themselves use Linux and they struggle to find anything which will run happily on all platforms whilst being fit for purpose, so LiveCode ticks many boxes for them. Teachers also showed huge interest in our work to create syllabus aligned class plans and training materials, from Standard Grade through to advanced Higher. The course materials are being refreshed to support the requirements of the Curriculum for Excellence. We were able to demonstrate the value of LiveCode in engaging young people with coding to a large number of new faces, and look forward to moving forward in Scotland with making LiveCode the default teaching tool in IT classrooms.
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