SEMINAR AND TRAINING IN PROGRAMMING WITH THE FINCH ROBOTS WAS HELD IN COMPUTER HALL OF "PROSVETA" COMMUNITY CENTRE IN THE TOWN OF SHIVACHEVO

On October 20^th, 2016, under the initiatives of the European code week / 15 – 23 October 2016/, in the computer hall of "Prosveta" community centre in the town of Shivachevo, the first training for children in programming with the Finch robot was held. The training was organized by experts from "Sava Dobroplodni" Regional Library - Sliven.

A short presentation about the history of programming and programming languages ​​and opportunities for programming with the robot Finch was presented to students from Primary School "Georgi Alexiev Karavelov" in town of Shivachevo. Children learnt how to code with the programming language Snap! that manages the robot. Snap! makes it easy to learn the principles of visual programming by working with images, sounds and painting, gives freedom for modeling of various objects from the environment thereby enriching the culture of children and develop creative thinking and communication skills. In practical training through funny tasks with characters from popular cartoons, the students mastered some of the basic principles of working with the programming language and successfully performed several tasks.

At the end of training children received certificates for successful completion of their first hour of programming, generated by the program.

The Finch robots used in training and software are placed at "Sava Dobroplodni" regional library’s disposal by the US Embassy in Bulgaria and the "Global Libraries Bulgaria" Foundation in order to allow experts from the library to help many children to make their first steps in programming in an interesting and funny way.