Both my middle school and high school classes worked on putting together the Freeduino kits.
In order to avoid any soldering mistakes, I asked students to place all there resistors in the board first, and once I checked them, they could solder away. Capacitors were next, then LEDs then everything else. The middle school class had more success with putting the kits together quickly. Maybe soldering was more of a novelty for them? They completed their boards within two classes, but the high school students had the potential to drag the process into a third class. Rather than do that, I finished all but one of the boards. There was one high school student who completed his Freeduino over the weekend and worked on the Proto Shield from Adafruit in class.
My intention was to also have both groups make Proto Shields, but now I’m thinking that that project should be optional.
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