Involving Parents

Problem
Parents are required to be there, but then may be sitting around doing nothing.

Possible Solutions

 * Plan out what you want from parents. Particularly with the very youngest kids, sitting with the kids is important.

Actual Experience
At Science Gallery there has been a drop off in the number of parents accompanying the kids. What happens quite a bit now is one parent bringing their kids and friends kids too. The arrangement of the room matters. On some occasions we've had soft bench seating round the edge of the room, and on those occasions we have more parents present in the room, on the seating near their kids table.

At UCD CoderDojo we have space for parents to sit with their kids at their table. The parents are picking up more there about coding than at Science Gallery.