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Ask HN: Great maker projects for 8th grade kids and above?
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Re: Ask HN: Great maker projects for 8th grade kids and above?
#52If he likes video games, we’re hosting a big game jam for middle and high schoolers next weekend. It’s free and nonprofit. There are 60 locations. Maybe one is near you? https://counterspell.hackclub.com/
hi, I waited for this thread to die down and reach the second page before I posted this because I love this topic and didn't want it derailed with a sensitive issue. I didn't realize this was restricted to school age kids and wanted to sign up as I needed some motivation to start on a game. But I reached the pronoun combobox and was legitimately confused!
I used to have a passion for UX and read books like "Don't make me think" and here I was stumbling with this silly field and didn't complete the form. Instead I was googling about pronouns to see if I should select "he/him", "he/him/his", or "He/Him". I didn't even notice there was an "any" and "other" value until I started writing this comment!
Hope you don't mind the question. This is a serious Q as I'm responsible for the UX of a public facing application and might at some point be required to add this field to our pages. I find it odd and kind of against UX best practices to make the field required. And presenting so many similar options "made me think" which used to be considered a bad practice because it's an obstacle to users completing a form. I now realize the target audience is school age kids. Do they automatically know what to select? I'm a xennial that somehow went into some time freeze spending every second of the day raising two kids with little time for social media. So please excuse my ignorance.
Re: Ask HN: Great maker projects for 8th grade kids and above?
#53You & he might get inspiration from Low Tech Magazine,
https://web.archive.org/web/20240122052820/https://solar.low...
Re: Ask HN: Great maker projects for 8th grade kids and above?
#54If he likes video games, we’re hosting a big game jam for middle and high schoolers next weekend. It’s free and nonprofit. There are 60 locations. Maybe one is near you? https://counterspell.hackclub.com/
hi, I waited for this thread to die down and reach the second page before I posted this because I love this topic and didn't want it derailed with a sensitive issue. I didn't realize this was restricted to school age kids and wanted to sign up as I needed some motivation to start on a game. But I reached the pronoun combobox and was legitimately confused! I used to have a passion for UX and read books like "Don't mak…
There’s no “correct” pronouns for you — just choose the ones you like.
Re: Ask HN: Great maker projects for 8th grade kids and above?
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
hi, I waited for this thread to die down and reach the second page before I posted this because I love this topic and didn't want it derailed with a sensitive issue. I didn't realize this was restricted to school age kids and wanted to sign up as I needed some motivation to start on a game. But I reached the pronoun combobox and was legitimately confused! I used to have a passion for UX and read books like "Don't mak…
There’s no “correct” pronouns for you — just choose the ones you like.
I know there's no correct answer. But I legit wanted to understand what my answer actually means and why we are presenting seemingly duplicate options. I tried googling "capital he him pronoun" and all the references were about god. From a UX point of view, we tried to eliminate non essential questions like "choose 3 items that interest you" from forms years ago. There's also no correct answer for that but some users drop off sign ups when they're forced to answer too my fields. And that's kind of what happened to me here. Sorry if this seems silly or nitpicky!
Re: Ask HN: Great maker projects for 8th grade kids and above?
#56I loved doing chemistry experiments and demos at home as a kid. I had books like the Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments [1] but this is a modern guide that I would gladly recommend: Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments: All Lab, No Lecture by Robert Bruce Thompson https://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Guide-Home-Chemistry-Expe... [1] https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/Brent_GBC.p...
Thank you for the great suggestion! There is a book on Forensic Science experiments too that I have ordered. Are you aware of similar books on Electronics too? Internet is awash with DIY tutorials but nothing beats a structured book to learn the basics of things.
Re: Ask HN: Great maker projects for 8th grade kids and above?
#57It might be a good idea to discover what your kid is really interested in. It is a common trap for adults to project their unfulfilled childhood desires onto their children. It used to be fathers buying and building model railways which the kid ignores and chooses to go outside and play football.
Re: Ask HN: Great maker projects for 8th grade kids and above?
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
There’s no “correct” pronouns for you — just choose the ones you like.
I know there's no correct answer. But I legit wanted to understand what my answer actually means and why we are presenting seemingly duplicate options. I tried googling "capital he him pronoun" and all the references were about god. From a UX point of view, we tried to eliminate non essential questions like "choose 3 items that interest you" from forms years ago. There's also no correct answer for that but some users…
I don't think there is any real difference between the three options you had to choose between.
Re: Ask HN: Great maker projects for 8th grade kids and above?
#591. Has Motor, Flames or both
2. Slightly Dangerous
3. Desire to make it better
The key is to spark something that creates an obsession IMO.
Re: Ask HN: Great maker projects for 8th grade kids and above?
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
There’s no “correct” pronouns for you — just choose the ones you like.
I know there's no correct answer. But I legit wanted to understand what my answer actually means and why we are presenting seemingly duplicate options. I tried googling "capital he him pronoun" and all the references were about god. From a UX point of view, we tried to eliminate non essential questions like "choose 3 items that interest you" from forms years ago. There's also no correct answer for that but some users…
I would just say to implement it as an optional field or make "I don't know" the first in the list