We have a great week of activities and speakers for Computer Science Education Week/Hour of Code 2023 at Burlington High School. Please check this page for directions and updates during the week. Teachers can sign up at https://forms.gle/f8aAjzKBmk6CwVHt6

Guest Speakers

On Monday, Dec. 4, during 2nd period, we will have special speaker Robin Schmucker who will talk about Artificial Intelligence. He is Gati Aher’s (BHS ’19) mentor in the AI Ph.D. program at Carnegie Mellon. We will be recording but not live-streaming Robin’s talk, so if you can’t attend, a file will be provided later for you to view his talk.

NOTE: THERE IS A CHANCE THE WEDNESDAY SPEAKER WILL BE CANCELED. On Wednesday, Dec. 6, during Flex in the science auditorium, we will have a special speaker Harris Williams, a former BC Football Captain and now CS Teacher at Bunker Hill. His talk is hosted by the Black Students Association. All students are welcome to join. He will talk about his life lesson “You win or you learn”. He will share what happened when he created a playbook for the team with AI, and Gameday Footage at ESPN promoted it to their large audience.

Activities

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (general topics on AI and demonstration of Adobe Firefly and AI in Photoshop(https://www.adobe.com/sensei/generative-ai/firefly.html)

Student AI Presentations:

Mark and Asa (Period 2) – Ethical Uses of AI

Brianna and Ethan (Period 3) – Artificial Intelligence

Mitch (Periods 1 and 3) – Photoshop (and Adobe Firefly)

Sam (Period 5) – Learning about Photoshop

Sulaiman Zai (Period 5) – Artificial Intelligence (CS EdWeek)

Videos:

BBC: Could the Future of Art Lie in AI Technology?

PBS News Hour: Use of AI Generates Questions about the Future of Art

CODING WITH SPHERO (https://edu.sphero.com/) AND PEPPER ROBOT (https://www.softbankrobotics.com/emea/en/pepper)

Student Sphero Presentations:

Colin and Zach (Period 2): – Sphero

Ava (Period 3) – Ava’s Sphero Project

Jack, Bobby, Jason, and Anthony (Periods 1 and 5) – Sphero

CODING WITH SCRATCH (https://scratch.mit.edu/)

Sarah and Lidia (Period 7) – Scratch Programming

Lidia (Period 7) – Scratch (Spanish presentation)

CYBERSECURITY

Student Cybersecurity Presentations:

Adam and Pranav (Period 2) – Cybersecurity and Why you Should be Careful on the Internet

Haris and Vincent (Period 7 – Cyber Security

VISUAL CODING WITH PROCESSING AND OPEN PROCESSING (https://hello.processing.org, https://processing.org/, and https://openprocessing.org/)

Shreya (Period 2) – Processing and Open Processing

CODING WITH DRONES AND FLIGHT SIMULATORS

Angel, Jake, Sam (Period 7) – AI Drones

DJI Flight Simulator (for Windows)

DJI Virtual Flight (also in Mosyle)

Drone Racing League Simulator (for Windows)

Tello EDU (also in Mosyle)

MUSIC PRODUCTION WITH GARAGEBAND (https://www.apple.com/ios/garageband/) AND MUSIC CODING WITH EARSKETCH (https://earsketch.gatech.edu/landing/#/)

Jackson Powers (Periods 1 and 3)

VIRTUAL REALITY WITH HTC VIVE (https://www.vive.com/us/), OCULUS OR META QUEST (https://www.oculus.com/quest), AND AR/VR CODING (https://cospaces.io/edu/)

Student Presentations on VR:

Anthony and John (Period 2) – VR in Burly High

Griffin, Caleb, and Gunnar (Period 7) – VR in a Nutshell

VIDEO GAME DEVELOPMENT WITH UNITY (https://learn.unity.com/), DESIGNING WITH BLENDER (https://www.blender.org/)(Blender will be Period 1 sessions only)

Student Presentations on Unity:

Joey Poland (Periods 1 and 3): Unity Presentation

Intro to Unity and Realtime 3D Engines