Robots and Physical Computing

via GIPHY Young   Code rs   Competition   2019 The Young   Code rs   Competition   is a competition   for primary schools aimed at helping teachers to become more confident with teaching coding skills. Any educator working with primary school aged children  (e.g. Teacher, Code Club Leader, etc) can run the   competition   whether they are familiar with coding or completely new to it.  All the session planning is done for you so you can learn alongside your pupils. The resources include  - 12 weeks of lesson planning for absolute beginners (children and teachers!)  or  - shorter 6 week version for those who already have a little experience with using Scratch.  The resources can be used   for computing lessons or   to run  within  an after-school club. It is open for children in years 4, 5 and 6 working in teams of 3 - 6 children.   The aim is to create a short c...

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Scratch 3 the gift that keeps on giving; including the new extensions are Text to Speech and Translate; Text to speech - does as the name suggests, turns typed in phrases into speech via Amazon Web Services. Translate using Google (and I assume Google Translate?) to translate text between different languages. As an experiment, I waned to play with clapping my hands, have Scratch the Cat ask me to enter a phrase and then convert that into French, German and Spanish with different voices. The resulting code is shown below. It is all started by a loud noise like a hand clap. The two extensions have been added to the blocks and are ready to go. The voice is initially set to Alto and the text-speech block has had the phrase "Please enter a phrase" typed in and says this. The ask block has the same question permanently set and the answer produced gets feed into the translations.  The remaining blocks do essentially the same thing - change the voice; - take the phra...