A few weeks ago, the library consulted me about teaching programming to kids. The Grand Avenue library is already using the CS First With Google and the West Orange library wants to start something similar and asked because of the previous robotics classes I’ve taught for them. While they could also try Google’s CS First, why not experiment with something else? Something a bit more hands on!
The library have always said they wanted to loan out Arduinos but it just can’t happen because of how much other stuff you must include with it before it becomes useful. It is impractical to expect the librarians to count wires and LEDs when an Arduino is loaned out.
So my targets were: low part count, easy to loan and return, full curriculum written.