Objectives of the platform
- To create empowerment through making things to improve ones environment
- To encourage confidence and mastery in computational thinking
- To give people a starting point in situations where they see the value but don’t know where to start
Essential
- A route or routes through the available resources
- Ability to upload or embed user generated content (UGC)
- Log in system
- Awarding of points for UGC
- Visual progress indicators
- Design that resonates with 11-16 year olds
- Badges
- OpenBadge compatible badges
Nice to have
- Ability to export PDF progress reports
- Ability to use the same IA for different computing platforms e.g. Arduino
- Awarding of points for UGC on different services e.g. Stack Exchange, GitHub
- Automatic updating of content as the official version is updated