Project Presentation

#Programmees Project Presentation German translation pending.

##Motivation The aggravated humanitarian crisis in the middle-east due to the ongoing civil war in Syria requires the solidarity of all us that have been favoured greatly by chance with a peaceful and affluent home country.

##Vision It is not to be taken as a joke, that the illiterates of the 21st century are those who cannot understand the language we humans use to communicate with computers. This language is called programming and comes in a variety of dialects. An interesting thing about programming, is that in contrast to the language we use to communicate between us humans, it focuses on structure and logic. This means that by learning to program, you do not only acquire the ability to communicate with a computer, but also acquire the structured critical reasoning needed for the resolution of a plethora problems. Another interesting thing about programming is that even though the actual writing of code occurs individually, its greatest products are community efforts. The triumph of open source software projects such as GNU-Linux and the Wikipedia are living proof that sharing work done with technical skills can conclude in something beautiful from which all of us can benefit. By teaching refugees from a young age how to program and the values we share in the programming community, we believe that their integration into our society can be eased.

##Objective Contribute to the integration of the refugees in our society, by providing a programming course free of cost.

##What we offer

• Tutors

##What we need

• Infrastructure: Computers with the course's software and a room with tables, chairs, and power outlets. (A Berliner university's computer lab has agreed to help out with at least the first dojo)
• Contact and organization of the participants
• Translators

##Who can participate

• Refugees ages 5-17 (refugees under 12 must be acommpanied by an adult)
• The number of participants has a maximum of approx. 35 (number of computers in the lab) + the number of laptops that can be brought by volunteers (The c-lab has space for approx. 40 people). This is under the condition that we get at least a tutor per every 3 participants (ideally it should be one-to-one, two-to-one is also ok). That means that as of now, we could tutor up to 24 kids.