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 * What happened? (Briefly)
+I briefly watched this group, but did not pay extremely close attention. The session began with an overview by Jordi about what Scratch was, was Arduino was, and how kids could begin using Scratch to program Arduino robots like the one in a video hew showed.
+In the time allotted for the session, kids began to start building with Scratch codeblocks to create a small animation on their screens. One or two kids were engaged with this task, but not many more than that. Some of the folks from Arduino were also looking on, but they were not involved in teaching or sharing their experiences from what I could tell. Overall, this was a somewhat subdued session.
 * What did kids discover or learn?
+My sense is that kids learned 1) that programming wioth Scratch is easier than they first thought; 2) BUT that programming in general is slow and somewhat tedious process of trial and error; 3) that making robots move (the hook presented at the beginning of the session) requires A LOT of work--definitely more than could be accomplished in the OpenRaval sessions.
 * What should be improved for this activity?