Want to volunteer to teach kids programming?
We're a non-profit videogame museum in downtown Oakland. We teach a weekly free programming class in MIT's Scratch. The class is for 8 to 14 year olds with little to no computer skills.
We have 3 teachers now, but we would like to expand our stable of teachers. Ideally, we'd have enough so that everyone only had to teach a class once a month. Classes are at 10 AM, Saturday mornings, and run for 1.5 hours.
Our teachers need to be patient and able to work with kids, but knowledge of Scratch isn't super important. Scratch is dirt simple if you understand programming, and our existing teachers have the cirriculum down to a science: one game is taught each class. Typically that's Moon Lander, a racing game, a basketball game, and other simple 2D designs.
If you are interested in volunteering in downtown Oakland to help teach kids to program, please email me at alex@themade.org
Fringe benefits include membership to the Museum, the chance to help some very cool kids, and the opportunity to join a team of teachers that all have massive, throbbing, genius programmer brains.