Children, youth and families are very welcome at FrOSCon!
Youth camp “FrogLabs”
The programme for children and adolescents called FrogLabs has always been an important part of FrOSCon and is the biggest youth programme on an open-source conference. As of 2013, the FrogLabs are organised as part of the Hack’n’Fun project at Teckids e.V., which was spun out of FrOSCon in order to continuously work on free software topics for youth and education.
Mini FrogLabs 2025
This year, FrOSCon will once again host a dedicated programm for children, starting from around 9 years. On both days of FrOSCon, the children and grown-ups of the Teckids community have prepared several workshops:
- Electronics and microcontrollers with MicroPython
- Building Luanti worlds and programming mods
- Neopixel upcycling (blinky LEDs in plushies and other things)
- Coding games with Python and Pygame
Summer camp Hack’n’Sun right after FrOSCon
Shortly after FrOSCon, a huge holiday camp with topics around technology will take place with the Hack’n’Sun summer camp by Teckids. All children starting from 9 years get the chance to work on topics similar to those at FrOSCon intensively, and on top of that spend three days of activities in Bonn.
Daycare
For the youngest, there is also a daycare with possibilities to play and with qualified child care personnel in the site’s parent-child room – and, obviously, not to forget the traditional bouncy castle!