The shocking usefulness of trigonometry for video games on raspberry pi - scratch edition

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[ Session Name ] The shocking usefulness of trigonometry for video games on raspberry pi - scratch edition [ Primary Space ] Youth Zone

[ Submitter's Name ] Daniel Green [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] The Urban Farming Guys [ Submitter's GitHub ] @dangjavageek

[ Other Facilitator 1's Name ] Geoffrey McIntyre [ Other Facilitator 1's GitHub ] @Macgeoffrey

What will happen in your session?

Participants will use scratch on a raspberry pi to work through developing a video game where trigonometry functions are used to make the game elements behave properly, zoom around the screen and generally do good video game things based on maintaining a momentum vector for objects on screen - in this case we build a simple version of asteroids to drive home the point that math is fun when it makes your game work properly - will also show greenfoot on raspberry pi with same game assets and algorithms

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

Present a usage of raspberry pi to motivate students to use math to build a video game as a means of building further interest in freely available tools (scratch, greenfoot), low cost raspberry pi platform (maximize computing reach to the most students, promote internet health and open-ness)

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

we intend to use the youth zone raspberry pi lab, we will need raspberry pi's set up and ready to go, please contact Daniel Green dang@theurbanfarmingguys.com - we are happy to help with setup / tear down / maintenance / support of the raspberry pi lab where needed, thanks!

Time needed

90 mins