2022, our leanest year. The ask we mailed a family foundation: $2,500, about half a year's insurance bill. That's the real scale of grassroots STEM education. We kept teaching. https://www.openwiselearning.org/half-an-insurance-bill-2022/ #OpenWiseLearning

July 2021: back in person. After a summer on screens, OWL ran a full working day, 8 AM to 5 PM, fifteen days straight. A deliberate over-correction for kids who'd spent a year and a half learning through a laptop. https://www.openwiselearning.org/back-in-the-room-2021/ #OpenWiseLearning

Nov 2020: with our sessions online, we started a podcast. Each week a scientist, engineer or mathematician talked about their work, from infinity to COVID-19 vaccines. https://www.openwiselearning.org/introducing-the-owl-vision-justice-podcast/ #OpenWiseLearning #DiversityInSTEM

Summer 2019, week one: our scholars assembled their own Raspberry Pi computers, learned that computers only do as they're told, then messaged each other across the room. "What's your network ID?" https://www.openwiselearning.org/dc-summer-owl-immersive-week-1/ #OpenWiseLearning #DiversityInSTEM

Nov 2018, day one of our first Nairobi immersive. The budget carried lunch every day and Ksh 200 a day in transport for families who needed it, so the cost of the trip couldn't decide who learned. https://www.openwiselearning.org/nairobi-immersive-starts/ #OpenWiseLearning #DiversityInSTEM

Feb 2018: we opened our spring sessions by taking our scholars to see Black Panther, a film full of brilliant people solving problems with science. What we wrote that week: https://www.openwiselearning.org/black-panther-spring-2018-academic-year/ #OpenWiseLearning #DiversityInSTEM

July 2017, the last day of our second summer: each scholar showed a room of parents and teachers what they had learned to build, and the global problem they cared about most. https://www.openwiselearning.org/summer-immersive-2017-graduation/ #OpenWiseLearning #STEMforGood

Continue building the Pascal GUI Guessing Game! 🎮 In Part 2, you’ll validate input, enforce difficulty ranges, count guesses, finish win/lose logic, and lock/unlock the UI with a “Play Again” flow.

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In this beginner-friendly tutorial, we turn a classic number guessing game into a Pascal GUI app using Lazarus on Linux. Add difficulty levels, use case statements, and build a simple interface with Button, Edit, and Label.

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In this kid-friendly tutorial, we use Object Pascal in Lazarus IDE to build a bouncing ball animation. Learn how to animate shapes with a timer, move them around a form, and make the ball bounce off window edges—all under 10 minutes.
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In this beginner-friendly tutorial, we use Object Pascal in Lazarus IDE on Linux to build a real GUI app. Learn how to design forms, drop components, and wire up events — a perfect intro before games and animations.

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Beginner-friendly coding tutorial: Build a classic number guessing game using Object Pascal in Lazarus IDE on Linux. 🧠🎮
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Beginner-friendly tutorial: Step-by-step install of Lazarus IDE + Free Pascal Compiler (FPC) on Linux (Fedora). Lazarus is a free, open-source tool to build fast desktop games & apps.

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