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Happy New Year!

We hope that everyone had a great holiday and are all signed up and ready to 4-H!

New 4-H Projects:

Virtual Reality and Game Development - Every other Friday, 5p - 7p starting Jan 17 at the Rocklin library.

Hack Club - Web and Game development - 4th Mondays, 7p - 8:30p starting Jan 27 at the Granite Bay library.

CS-First: Music and Sound - 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, 6p - 7:30p, starting Jan 28 at the Rocklin Library.

For more information, please see our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/4Hcomputerclub or our calendar on our website: https://www.thecomputerclub.org/calendar/ or follow us mobile using the Band App: https://band.us/n/a1a52aAaI0M5n.

We are going to the Rocklin Mini Maker Faire!

Come see us Saturday, Oct 6 at Sierra College. We will be featuring our programming, electronics and robotics curriculum (electronics and robotics project not yet available for sign up, but coming soon)

See you there!  http://rocklin.makerfaire.com/

We're super excited that we're going to be starting a new series of Hack Club events with Placer County 4-H!

An information night will be held on Friday, September 8 at 6pm.

Meetings are the 2nd and 3rd Friday of each month beginning in October.

Contact: Cayce Beames, cayce@thecomputerclub.org to RSVP or enroll at: http://ucanr.edu/sites/placercounty4h/Join_4-H/New_and_Returning_Youth_Members/

If you aren't able to make the information night, stop by to see us inthe 4-H booth at the Placer County Fair from 6p to 9p on Saturday Sept 9th!

Hack Club at 4H

This Saturday, we are hosting an event in celebration of International Nodebot day.

We will be building little sumobots using lasercut frames and simple electronics powered by Arduino and the Johnny-Five javascript library.  When we finish our bots, we will test them out in the sumo ring!

Last meeting, we created Dodge, a video game where you move your dinosaur out of the way of falling rocks.

In this meeting, we will be creating a game similar to Flappy Bird, Pitfall and Defender, or for the modern among us, Geometry Dash.  This one is called Platformer.

Come join us on May 20 at 11a at our Club Garage!

You can see a playable demo version here:

http://prophetorpheus.github.io/platformer/

Great Article from Comstock's Magazine about PodPi, the curriculum that we are primarily using for our electronics track:

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http://www.comstocksmag.com/web-only/can-comic-book-teach-children-about-stem