Total number of attendees: 20 + | Languages: DE, EN, FR

Hack4Kids in Alice in Wonderland

“To see these sorcerer’s apprentice playing in the premier league with mastery and elation was simply impressive. A promising future!” Francis Bourre, Software Architect, Docler Holding

SECURITYMADEIN.LU organized Hack4Kids event based on the topic of Alice in Wonderland in the frame of Game of Code – a Hackathon which gathers a hundred of developers from all around Europe – on Saturday 11th of March 2017 in the afternoon at the Forum Geesseknäppchen. This edition lasted during 3 hours and gathered around twenty children aged from 7 to 12 years old. The goal of this workshop was to promote teamwork and to make children discover the different key steps of a software development from the concept formalization to the technical development and finally the presentation of the outcomes in front of an IT professional panel. The participants were divided in 3 groups according to their mother tongue (French and English in this case) and developed 3 different projects with the help of Matthieu Farcot and Steve Clement, experts in information security at SECURITYMADEIN.LU and Chris Pinchen, founder of practicalprivacy.lu:

• The first group animated the drawing of the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland through the programming of LED.

• The second group helped the White Rabbit going down in his burrow with sensors.

• The third group imagined means to distort time and space through wearable sensors. Each group presented its project in a creative way to a professional panel. Children truly appreciated this initiative and the professional panel were pleased with the final outcomes.