The BHS Help Desk has been planning a series of fun activities for Computer Science Education Week/Hour of Code 2019 which is taking place Dec. 9-13. We are excited that representatives from Microsoft and Apple will be coming to the school to lead us in some coding exercises. We hope to have a lot of teachers and students join us for a very special week
These are some of the things we have planned:
1. Beginner coding (https://code.org/ and https://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/)
2. Intermediate coding (https://processing.org/ and others)
3. Circuit programming (https://makecode.adafruit.com/)
4. Coding with drones (https://edu.parrot.com/apps.html and https://www.ryzerobotics.com/tello)
Drone presentation by BHS students here
5. Coding with Music (see https://sonic-pi.net/ and https://dropmix.hasbro.com/en-us)
Music and coding presentation by BHS students here
6. Coding with robots (https://www.sphero.com)
Sphero presentation by BHS students here
7. Augmented and virtual reality (examples at http://virtualrealityforeducation.com/)
VR presentation by BHS students here
8. Educational gaming and creating video games ( https://labo.nintendo.com/ and https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials)
9. 3D printing (https://www.blockscad3d.com/educators and https://www.tinkercad.com/)
Intermediate BlocksCAD presentation here
Special Events:
Wednesday, 12:45-3 (Periods 1-3)
Rooms 409 and 411
Microsoft representatives will be here to work with the students on the Responsible AI project within this github repo: https://github.com/interpretml/interpret-community/blob/master/notebooks/explain-regression-local.ipynb. The activity will be using https://ipython.org/notebook.html
Thursday, 10:30-12:30 (Periods 3-5)
Back of the upper library
Microsoft Store representatives will have demonstrations and hands-on activities with Mixed Reality headsets and other new Microsoft hardware
Friday, 10:15-12:45 (Periods 1-3)
Rooms 409-411
Apple representatives will do activities with Swift Playgrounds and Augmented Reality
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