11/27/2018. After a one-week break for Thanksgiving, the girls finished up their MicroBit work today. Students who posted the most reflective FlipGrids on their MicroBit work will be asked to revisit this tool in winter, develop some exemplar projects, and participate in the student showcase on MicroBit that club members will present at the NC-TIES state technology conference in March. Dr. Oliver was out sick today, so there are no photos to share from today's club meeting.
11/13/2018. This week in the iNEST maker club, the girls continued their work with the MicroBit programming platform, branching out from the rock-paper-scissors program that everyone started with last week to work with some of the dozens of projects available at https://makecode.microbit.org/. For example, one pair had fun creating a squishy circuits "keyboard" out of fruit that generated a tone when touched. Another pair created a wristband with scrolling LED messages. If our "student showcase" proposal is accepted for the upcoming NC-TIES state technology conference, some of the girls will be exhibiting their computer programs and Microbits at the conference. The club this week welcomed Eleanor Hasse, the grant's external evaluator, who observed and visited with some of the girls to find out more about their programming projects. The club will be taking a one-week hiatus next week for Thanksgiving, and then back on November 27th to continue work with Microbit.
11/7/2018. Today the iNEST Maker Club sponsored a STEM field trip for the entire 6th grade of the Wake Young Women's Leadership Academy (WYWLA). 58 girls traveled from the school to the Marbles Children's Museum where they took part in a STEM Exploratory Lab covering four different STEM career tracks (astronomy/space exploration, engineering, meteorology, and energy). After participating in the hands-on labs and taking observation notes in the booklets provided by Marbles, the girls watched "Dream Big" in the IMAX auditorium, with inspirational stories of young people making a big difference in the world through their STEM career tracks.
11/6/2018. Building on the Scratch coding cards the girls worked with a few weeks ago, we returned this week to block-based programming of Microbits. Everyone started with the same "rock-paper-scissors" project available on the Microbit coding web site, and then branched out to try some of the new projects available on the site. We will be working with Microbits for several weeks. It was great to see the girls get excited when their code functioned as planned and turned the Microbits into random generators of rock-paper-scissors icons with which to play the game. Dr. Oliver submitted a "student showcase" proposal to the NC-TIES state technology conference this week that, if accepted, will allow some of the club members to present on their Microbit work at the conference next March.
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Purpose:Dr. Oliver's weekly update of activities in the iNEST Maker Club. Archives
April 2019
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