Computer Science Education Week or the Hour of Code/AI will be taking place the week of Dec. 8th in Area 123. We have a great group of speakers who will be talking to our group this week. The final schedule is still being worked out, so please check this page for any updates. These are some of the topics we’ll be covering during the week.
SPECIAL SPEAKERS
Monday, Dec. 8, 11:09-12:15 (Period 5)
BHS parent Sagini Ramesh who works for VistaPrint will speak about building products that customers love. LinkedIn Profile for Sagini Ramesh
BHS parent Sonny Singh who works for the MITRE Corporation will give an overview of DevOps (Development + Operations)
Wednesday, Dec. 10 9:47-10:41 (Period 7), 10:45-11:39 (Period 1), and 2:06-3 (Period 3)
BHS parent Russell Miner who is a technical lead for Puzzle Nation will speak about his career as a game designer. He will be with us the entire day. LinkedIn Profile for Russell Miner
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 12:06-1 (Period 2)
BHS parent Rupesh Kurvankattil who works for Johnson & Johnson Med tech will speak about his career as a senior manager in software engineering as it relates to healthcare and computer systems. LinkedIn Profile for Rupesh Kurvankattil
Friday, Dec. 12, Period 1 (1:54PM)
BHS alum Matt Dabrowski (Class of 2002) will be talking to us online about his experiences as an indie or independent game developer. Matt’s company created the game Streets of Rogue. LinkedIn Profile for Matt Dabrowski
BHS parent Tyrone Chao who works for BAE Systems Fast Labs will speak about his career as a systems engineer. LinkedIn Profile for Tyrone Chao
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)
Explore AI activities at the code.org’s Hour of AI
Teachable Machine activity from Hack Club. You’ll need to use one of our computers to try this AI and image recognition activity
MIT App Inventor StoryGPT Presentation and Activity . You’ll need to use one of our computers and will need to download MIT App Inventor AI2 Companion in Mosyle School
Simplilearn Video that briefly explains how ChatGPT works
Financial Times article that goes more in-depth on how the transformer in GPT’s work.
Learning about Photoshop. Presentation by Sammy and Kristina that includes generative fill and expand AI capabilities in the program
DRONES
Presentation by Ellalan, Owen, and Ekamveer (Exploring Computer Science Students) on drones
Please download DJI Virtual Flight from Mosyle School on your iPad to fly a virtual drones. We will also have real drone controllers available for you to try out virtual flights
Presentation and directions by Kush, Faiz, and Calvin on Virtual Flight
GAME DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
Delightex from Mosyle School. Delightex is an app you can use to make games/experiences, or you can use the site if you have a laptop. We will have headsets that can be used with a phone that has Delightex to view your creations in VR
Presentation by Jakob, Matt, and Sanju (Exploring Computer Science Students)
Presentation by Caden, Krish, and Jayden (Help Desk Students)
Unity is a game engine or program that is used to make video games. It has to be installed on a computer, and we will have computers with some self-guided tutorials for you to try. There are various tutorials as well on learn.unity.com
Presentation by Braden (Tech Exploration/Help Desk and Game Design Student)
Presentation on Roblox coding by Khushi, Manal, and Tasneem (Exploring Computer Science Students). Roblox is not officially approved for use in BHS, but it has a lot of similar design concepts as Unity
YouTube video on machine learning and the kart racing project that Braden showed in his presentation
CODING/PROGRAMMING
Please download Processing from Mosyle School. It will be listed as Processing & P5.js iCompiler. Processing is an App or program to do visual coding. If you have a computer, install it from https://processing.org/download
Android link and iOS links if you want to install it on your phone for later use
Presentation by James, Chase, Nakul, and Faheem (Exploring Computer Science Students)
Useful Processing tutorials
GitHub is a site where you store and share code repositories. GitHub Codespaces is a code editor where you can write code, and integrate it in your GitHub repositories. You can log into these sites with your school Google account
Presentation by Siddharth and Hilal (Exploring Computer Science Students).
Their presentation was adapted by the make your own website workshop in Hack Club Workshops
VIRTUAL REALITY (VR)
We will have Oculus and Meta headsets for you to try educational apps
Meta and Oculus presentation by Eric, Giacomo, Justin, and Logan
Google Earth directions by Matty
ROBOTICS
Demonstrations of the Robosen K1 Interstellar Scout Robot
Demonstrations of the Petoi Bittle Robot Dog
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