Exploration 2018

Badge Your Learning!
Binary, Circuit Maker, Turtle Draw, Pixel Artist, Algorithms, Design Thinker, Functions, Conditions, Game Design, Web Design, Micro:Bit, Computer Vision, Hummingbird Robotics, Planning, Storyboarding. Create pixel art to reflect your learning. Export 320x320 .PNG file. Upload here, add your name in title & describe your badge in write something.
Share your reflections in your house padlet:

Hopper House

Lovelace House

Turing House

Vaughan House
Day 1: Discover - What is computer science?
  • Binary Search (CS Unplugged & Illustrated Example)
  • Turtle Draw in Scratch (Sierpinski Triangle Challenge)
  • Light-Up Paper Helicopter
  • Create your avatar with Piskel
    • Export as a .png, at least 320x320
  • Add your avatar to Day 1 of your House's padlet along with reflection: What did you do? What did you learn? What are you looking forward do?

Day 2: Empathize - What problem do you want to solve?
  • Design Thinking (Design the Perfect Chair)
  • Intro to Functions & Conditions (FizzBuzz Challenge)
  • Interest Mapping
  • Remix avatar-exploration
    • Drag your avatar file to assets
  • Share your project statement (I want to work on _____ because ______) on Day 2 of your House's padlet

Day 3: Experiment - What do you need to learn?
  • Workshops: Web Design, Game Design, Computer Vision, Micro:Bit & Hummingbird Robotics
  • Project Planning
    • refine project statement
    • storyboard your project
    • create a scrum board
  • Share what did you do? what will you do next? and what are you stuck on? to Day 3 of your House's padlet

Day 4: Produce - What is your solution?
  • Project work!
  • Badge your learning
  • Stand up meeting - what did you do? what are you going to do next? is anything blocking you?
  • Write a thank you message with a couple of mentors and/or friends who have inspired or helped you out this week & share it on Day 4 of your House’s padlet!

Day 5: Demo Party - What did you create?
  • Keep updating your scrum board
  • Before morning break @ 10:30 - get your project demo ready
  • After break - share projects & get feedback
  • After lunch - Demo Party freak-out