Meeting Place and Time

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We recommend that clubs meet at least two hours a week. It's hard to complete a project with less time than that. Most clubs meet once a week for two hours, others meet twice a week for 1-2 hours each meeting. Most of our clubs have met in the afternoon after school gets out.

The ideal meeting place has about 15 computers and some table space. A school media center or library is often a great place to meet. A computer lab can also be good, especially if there is some open space and tables.

For the Lego Robots activity each team of 2-3 students needs about 5 feet of table space to build the robot, plus at least one computer for each team for programming. For Animation and Web Creations you need one computer for each student. For Digital Video you need at least one computer for each team of 2-10 students.

Make sure your computers are up to the task. Very old or partially broken computers frustrate students instead of encouraging learning. The different activities have varying system requirements, check the Activities pages for specifics. If in doubt install the software on one computer and test to see that it runs adequately. If not, find a better meeting place or newer computers.