We are looking forward to having in-person events for CS Ed Week/Hour of Code at BHS. We have a great variety of activities that we’re excited to show teachers and students this week, and an excellent speaker and panel of BHS alums who will be speaking on Thursday and Friday. We hope to see you in Area 123 and the BHS Help Desk!

Activities

• Coding with Sphero (https://edu.sphero.com/) and Pepper robot – (https://www.softbankrobotics.com/emea/en/pepper) (Sphere presentation by Malachi and Windsor, and Sphero tutorial by Nigel and Vin)
• Creative Coding with Vidcode (https://www.vidcode.com/) (Vidcode presentation by Frank)
• Visual Coding with Processing (https://hello.processing.org) (Processing tutorial by Julia)
• Drone Presentation and Coding with Drones (https://www.dji.com/downloads/djiapp/tello-edu)
• Music Coding with EarSketch (https://earsketch.gatech.edu/landing/#/) and Using GarageBand (Everyone can Create Music)
• Virtual Reality with HTC Vive (https://www.vive.com/us/) and AR/VR Coding (https://cospaces.io/edu/) (Resources for AR and VR)
• Video Game Development with Ready Maker (https://www.getready.io/) (Ready Maker tutorial by Jayson)
• Advanced Video Game Development with Unity (https://learn.unity.com/) (Unity tutorial by Joey, Nigel, and Vin)

Speakers

Thursday, Dec. 9th Special Speaker:

Joe Oswald, Ph.D., Harvard University, Software Engineer at Google NYC

Friday, Dec. 10th: BHS Alumni Panel

Gati Aher – BHS ’19, Olin College of Engineering ’23

Emerson Armas – BHS ’20, Middlesex Community College, Burlington Public Schools IT Dept.

Dan Castellarin – BHS ’19, Rochester Institute of Technology ’23

Anusha Datar – BHS ’17, Olin College of Engineering ’21

Eddie Reis – BHS ’17, Nova Southeastern University ’21

Melanie Thibodeau – BHS ’18, UMass Dartmouth ’22