The community track · Computational Collaboration Curriculum

Three standalone sessions for libraries, youth clubs and community spaces, where the room is mixed and nobody is on a roster.

With learners rather than colleagues, the accounts and the conversation with families change. Conditions covers what to settle before that session.

The governing constraint is that you cannot count on the same people coming back. Everything else here follows from that.

Why these sessions are not Plan, Build and Test

The other tracks split the loop across sessions: one plans, the next builds, the third tests. That only works with a roster.

Here, somebody arriving at session two with no board would have nothing to build from, and somebody attending only session three would test something they never made. So each session runs the whole loop, start to finish, and what changes between them is the rung.

Session	Rung	What is new
One	Reveal or Navigate	The loop itself, at its simplest
Two	Respond	The page reacts, so judging gets harder
Three	Remix or Generate	The page holds on to something

Somebody who comes once has built a thing and run the loop once. Somebody who comes three times has done it three times, each time with more that can go wrong.

What goes home

Boards go home with participants, not into your bin. A board in a bag is the only continuity available here, and somebody who brings theirs back can pick up where they left off.

Print spares of everything, every time.

Mixed ages in one room

Ages 13 and up, which in practice can mean a fourteen year old and a sixty year old at the same table.

The instruments are subject-neutral, and the projects are about the person making them, so the room does not need a shared starting point. Pairing across an age gap works: the two people know different things and have to say so out loud, which is the conversation the board is trying to produce anyway.

Before you start

Read the out-of-school conditions. The short version is that you hold the account and drive one screen, which removes sign-ups from a session that may be the only one somebody attends.