Many CSEdWeek events go beyond the Hour of Code, incorporating a wide range of activities for students and, in some cases, for their parents, families, and teachers. To see what others are doing, and to get ideas for what you might do, browse all of the listings or search using criteria given on the right hand side of the page. You can also view the map to see events across the country and in your area.
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Teachers & Parents -- Get your students excited about computer programming! Find out how you can engage students with an "interest-based" approach -- let them create their own characters to personalize the learning puzzles, pick projects they want to to build and share with others. It's easy for teachers and parents to tailor the experience to all ages, interests and experience levels, with Tynker's Hour of Code activities. It's a great way for students to learn to code.
If you want to get your kids excited about Hour of Code, Tynker's personalized approach is a great way to get kids of all ages, abilities and interest engaged. From building their own characters to use in learning puzzles, to choosing to make games, greeting cards or comic cartoons, Tynker's broad set of activities will have something for everyone.
This workshop will focus on game development using Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu/), a programming project spearheaded by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. Taught by subject matter expert Dr. Juan Carlos Olabe of CBU's School of Engineering, the Memphis workshop will be geared towards introducing participants to animation, gaming, and creating interactive stories. The workshop is designed to encourage student-driven learning, as participants think analytically, design, play, and code in real-time. No prior programming experience is required for this class. This class is designed for girls ages 10 - 17.
Saturday December 6, 2014 10:00 - 16:00 EST
Christian Brothers UniversityChristian Brothers University Nolan Engineering Building 650 East Parkway South Memphis, TN 38104
The community is invited to participate in a tutorial lead by a student. Our student leader will teach the community how to program in Alice, Scratch and Pencilcode!
Each student will learn basic computing principles, while experimenting with batteries and LEDs to connect a circuit that works on their own light-up origami necklace, bracelet, or other wearable items. USC students from Women in Computer Science (WICS), Robogals, Society of Women Engineers (SWE) will work with attendees and demo CS apps and robots, For girls, ages 8+, No prior experience needed.
For the second year in a row, Old Mission Montessori School children from Kindergarten thru Eighth Grade will spend an hour in the computer lab finding out how fun and easy coding truly is. 1st thru 5th grade is already working through the studio.code.org three-stage curriculum. But tackling "Frozen" and Tynker and Bitsbox isn't all the coding that will happen... teachers will also be presenting modules from the "unplugged" curriculum in various classes. It will be an exciting week at OMMS during December 8th thru 12th.
All students in Simsbury Public Schools grades K-12 will experience a CS Lesson during the week. All students will learn about algorithms and programming. Grades K-4 will complete "unplugged" activities using lessons from Code Studio. Grades 5-12 will write code to complete block language mazes.
Our whole school will be participating in the Hour of Code. Military community members will be volunteering. Guest speakers will talk with students about how computer science is used in their careers.
Los Altos School District will celebrate Computer Science education week with a district wide event for the community to code together. Buddy coding projects in the classrooms, parent and child coding events in the computer labs, and professional development workshop for teachers to code together. Student will also learn about Grace Hopper and the importance of CS EdWeek.
From kindergarden to high school, approximately 900 students, will attend the hour of code sessions in our ICT lessons for a week at TED Antalya College in Antalya, Turkey. Also, in our programming clubs we have been doing Scratch, Code.org, Tynker, CodeCombat, Google Code activities two hour in a week.
I am using the hour of code for all our students (330) from Kinder to Fifth grade. I have an after school computer club that began this past September 30th 2014 that takes place every Tuesday from 3:30 to 5:00 pm. Teaching my students typing lessons, code.org tutorials and lecturing them in vocabulary skills utilizing computer science stresses their educational learning. Additionally, I teach Microsoft Office software and Minecraft.edu tutorials to increase the building and thinking skills that all of these programs require.
My CS Principles students are heading out to classes all over our campus and Fairhope Elementary School to introduce kids to the world of computer science! We are using the tutorials from code.org as well as student-created activities to lead others to the joys of computing!
Monday December 8, 2014 13:15 - Monday December 15, 2014 15:00 EST
TBALiceul Teoretic 'Miron Costin' ,str. Izvoarelor, nr.11, Pascani, jud.Iasi, &05200 Romania
This is an 'Open House' event where our students can bring a relative to school and use the computer lab's devices (computers, tablets, robots) to teach them how to code, using one of the tutorials from Hour of Code, a project from our coding club site or a student's individually designed challenge.
Monday December 8, 2014 15:15 - Friday December 12, 2014 17:00 EST
International School of GenevaRoute des Morillons, 11, 1218 Grand-Saconnex, Geneva, Swityerland
The Sunny Hills High School Computer Science students will be available to assist you as you try out the Hour of Code activities to help you get your feet wet with coding.
Join us to see demos of student projects, enjoy refreshments and win prizes! There is also the opportunity to learn to code yourself, assisted by students from The Baldwin School.
Students and faculty will demonstrate the many ways computing is incorporated into the curriculum. Participants will have the opportunity to try out some of the tools, see cool robots, and talk to students in the Computer Science program.
Tuesday December 9, 2014 18:30 - 20:00 EST
TBALiceul Teoretic 'Miron Costin' ,str. Izvoarelor, nr.11, Pascani, jud.Iasi, &05200 Romania
Student ambassadors from the IU School of Informatics and Computing (SoIC) have designed hands-on outreach activities which support The Hour of Code movement. Specifically, the SoIC students will be assisting teachers in local elementary schools implement The One Hour of Code activities into the classroom curriculum as well as provide students with presentations on the endless opportunities in the field of technology.
Tynker will provide a short introduction to Hour of Code activities, discuss how learning to code is fun and easy and answer some student submitted questions
On Friday, December 12th, Friends' Central School will be hosting a discussion with Dr. +Eric Rosenbaum (inventor of MaKey MaKey) and Dr. +AnnMarie Thomas (inventor of Squishy Circuits) on playful learning.
PCS Edventures Inc. is a 25 Year Hands-On STEM education company. We have several products that engage kids in programming, but our newest and finest introduces whole classrooms to programming for Arduino. It's called Discover Robotics and it uses the PCS Cortex UI to wirelessly program robots by means of tablets, or computers! We'll be going through some of our curriculum and builds that support teachers in getting kids to program in-class at a young age!
Student ambassadors from the IU School of Informatics and Computing (SoIC) have designed hands-on outreach activities which support The Hour of Code movement. Specifically, the SoIC students will be assisting teachers in local elementary schools implement The One Hour of Code activities into the classroom curriculum as well as provide students with presentations on the endless opportunities in the field of technology.
Student ambassadors from the IU School of Informatics and Computing (SoIC) have designed hands-on outreach activities which support The Hour of Code movement. Specifically, the SoIC students will be assisting teachers in local elementary schools implement The One Hour of Code activities into the classroom curriculum as well as provide students with presentations on the endless opportunities in the field of technology.
The Fayette County (Pennsylvania) 4H (Penn State Extension) Robotics Club was formed in July 2014. Member ages range from 7 to 13. To celebrate National Computer Science Education Week, we are hosting a Family Night. Members and their families will build, program, and test the EV3 Robotic Arm project. This will be our first "workshop" event. The Club's goal is to initiate and sustain an outreach program. Members will conduct workshops (and later competitions) within the county in an effort to develop interest in Robotics and Computer Science. The club also hopes to compete in First Lego League next season (Fall/Winter 2015).
Students are invited to join GenTech for a "Celebration of Code" with 8 classes teaching coding through Game Design, SCRATCH Animations, and Programming Robots! The 75-minute classes are for Students in grades 3 - 12, Adults, and Parent/Child partnerships for children in grades K - 2.
Saturday December 13, 2014 10:00 - 12:00 EST
Dundalk Institute of TechnologyPJ Carrolls building, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Dublin Rd, Dundalk, Co.Louth, Ireland
Black Girls CODE is thrilled to host for the first time in the Bay Area an exciting new workshop that's all about ROBOTS! Join us for a fun and captivating educational experience where girls will learn about robots and how they communicate in an engaging atmosphere, combining hands-on activities with Lego WeDo/NXT kits and Robot Simulators and live demonstrations from area robotics organizations. They will then rotate to a second session which will be focused on interacting with more sophisticated robots and where they will learn real-world/business applications and uses for robotics.
We will explore many ways of coding: game design, animation, drawing, and robotics! In one workshop, children will explore game design with Tynker, a visual programming language that utilizes drag-and-drop code blocks, animation tools and an art studio to customize characters and backgrounds, and more! Children can also view and edit their code with JavaScript to develop an understanding of real text-based programming languages. In the second workshop, children will learn the basics of coding with Wonder Workshop using drag-and-drop programming and robots! Try your hand at design challenges to build and program robots named Dash and Dot. Code Dash and Dot to follow directions, send messages, and even transform into entirely new creatures.
Presentation from a community member on the benefits of coding, and starting the process to develop a club at the library that focuses on learning how to code in a fun way.
An Hour of Code event open to the public. Sponsored by the Wadleigh Library and assisted by members of the MHS Computer Team. Bring your own device; limited laptops available for borrowing.
