Our session shares how our WeTeach_CS Mini-Grant has allowed us to integrate coding skills in an innovative way with amateur radio. This opportunity involves students from computer science and engineering classes as well as law and health science. Students initially capture satellite data and upload it to a Raspberry Pi for analysis (coding). Ultimately students build an antenna rotator and code it using an Arduino to automate the position of a small antenna tracking a weather satellite. This project brings together technical knowledge and hands-on experience, while learning skills for job environments and community service opportunities.
I have dedicated more than two decades of my career to education, with all of that time spent in Rockwall Independent School District (ISD). For the past 15 years, I have had the privilege of teaching high school classes focused on Engineering and Robotics. Throughout my journey... Read More →
I am excited to invite you and your students to participate in the immersive Amazon career tours, designed specifically to enhance learning in the fields of robotics and computer science. These tours provide a unique opportunity for students to engage with cutting-edge technology in a real-world environment.
Career Tours are free, interactive virtual field trips that inspire students to pursue careers of the future by exploring Amazon’s technologies. Tour whenever, wherever on Kahoot!
Google Colab can be used to introduce students in non-CS courses to the applications of programming in a conveniently structures environment.
This session will demonstrate how a teacher can use the Text and Program boxes to break up the programming tasks into small/manageable sub-tasks. Students learn the basics of computer programming and the use of its application to science without needing to first learn Algorithmic Thinking.
It's a great way to get them a taste of programming to spark a greater interest.
