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+== Fri, Mar 12 - Interview with "los scratcheros" ==
+
+|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00008.jpg | maxwidth=480 | The "Scratcheros": Nadia, Benedicto and Alberto}} || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/scratcheros/00003.jpg | maxwidth=480 | A sugar "hack" (zoom in to see detail) }} ||
+|| {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cyber_nick/00001.jpg | maxwidth=480 | Cyber Nick, the XO repair lab in Caacupe }}        || {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/cyber_nick/00029.jpg  | maxwidth=480 | Kids asking to install Sugar 0.84 in front of Cyber Nick }}          ||
+
+Today I spent some time with a boy of Caacupe who has impressed me and the
+educators very much with his original creations in Scratch. Scratch is not
+a school subject, these kids are learning it on their own.
+
+ * **What's your name?**
+ * Benedicto
+
+ * **How old are you?**
+ * 12
+
+ * **How did you learn Scratch?**
+ * We tried all the functions. First, we'll try one function, and see what it does.
+
+ * **What job would you like to do when you're done with school?**
+ * Software engineer
+
+ * **Ah, like me! Do you like Turtle Art? What can you do with it?**
+ * Si. I can create rectangles and other geometrical shapes.
+
+ * **How much time do you spend with your laptop every day?**
+ * A few hours.
+
+ * **Nobody is teaching you, yeah? You're learning everything on your own?**
+ * No, with my sister. We try all activities, and when we find one we like, we spend some time on it together.
+
+ * **What other activities do you like besides Scatch and Turtle Art?**
+ * //Ablar con Sara// [Speak] and //Super Vampire Ninja Zero//, //Máquina de discos// (Jukebox).
+
+ * **Would you like to learn a little bit of Python with Pippy?**
+ * Very well!
+
+Then we got started. Python is easy, you can explain the basics to a smart kid in less than 30 minutes.
+We also updated Benedicto's laptop to [[http://oficina.paraguayeduca.org/~bernie/py-xo1/ | build 65]],
+containing the latest version of the Sugar 0.84 branch. Benedicto had been previously testing my previous
+build 45, which contained some networking bugs.
+
 == Tue, Mar 02 - Charla @ Facultad Politecnica ==
 
 Today I gave an opening talk at the [[http://www.pol.una.py/ | Facultad Politecnica de la Universidad Nacional de Asuncion]].
@@ -12,5 +53,6 @@ The title was "//Empoderar a los estudiantes con el Software Libre//" (//Empower
 {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/facultad_politecnica/la-base-pedagogica-de-sugar.jpg | maxwidth=640 | The pedagogical base of Sugar}}
 {{ pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/facultad_politecnica/00048.jpg | maxwidth=640 }}
 
+See [[pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/facultad_politecnica | all the photos ]] in my Codew'z photostream.
 
-See [[pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/facultad_politecnica | all photos ]] in the Codew'z photostream.
+Note: I'm not really affiliated with MIT and I'm not even an engineer, but it's a flattering mistake ;-)