On World Food Day, 11th and 12th grade @MeridianMstangs made over 4,000 meals to combat food insecurity locally. The Hand to Hunger student led club started by three 11th gr sts received an IB Global Youth Action Fund to inspire and influence change.
🎶PROJECT IDEA💡
Combine your love of music🎵 and programming 💻with these fun micro:bit projects which not only help computational thinking but sound good too! Take it one step further & code your own favourite tunes🎶!
https://t.co/XBiiNl5Qya
#microbit#coding#STEAM
Our leader and leading supporter in Blacksburg is also Associate Dean of the College of Engineering, and Executive Director of our Center for Enhancement of Engineering Diversity, Dr. Bev Watford.
And the Career Achievement Award goes to... Bev Watford! 🤩🎉 This award recognizes an individual who has made sustained, outstanding, and significant contributions to a career field. 👏
The 🆕 #microbit Python Editor is designed to help students who are learning to code using a text-based language. It's full of tools to help you spend 👉more time teaching👈, from modelling programming tasks to testing and developing code 🙌
#edtechteachers#csteachers#coding
This is great recognition of our long-term collaboration using microcontrollers in 5th and 6th grade classrooms, leading to a fascinating AFCEA pilot project.
Interested in Data Science?
You are cordially invited to attend an important webinar this Thursday, April 28, 5:00-6:00pm. Open to math & CS curriculum leaders, school admins and HS math or CS teachers.
Please register in advance for this meeting:
https://t.co/GH1whKdlAr
Join us for a panel discussion April 28 that features business and educational leaders/experts to discuss ideas and strategies to help prepare students for high demand STEM Careers! #xchangenet
Visit our website to register and learn about our speakers: https://t.co/0DGFAmQhLv
Join us for a panel discussion April 28 that features business and educational leaders/experts to discuss ideas and strategies to help prepare students for high demand STEM Careers! #xchangenet
Visit our website to register and learn about our speakers: https://t.co/0DGFAmQhLv
Virginia Tech's Reading Specialist Degree. Online courses, 5 semesters. Practical, Affordable. New faculty! New courses! Info session on April 9 from 11:00-12:00pm. Register here: https://t.co/ZitHNbaFUG
Contact [email protected] with any questions!
#VirginiaTech
As cities change, more people use communal bikes & scooters — but those people are relatively unprotected on the road. To improve road safety, we’re working with @commsignia & @spokesafety to add #CV2X technology into micro mobility vehicles. Learn more: https://t.co/yc4HprzvwC
Kids Lab coders in 4th & 5th grade constructed programs for their microbits. Using computer science, they set up algorithms for games and more! @dodeagrants@FtBelvoirES@FCPSSTEAM
Today our Young Scholars participated in a fantastic field trip to the @Qualcomm@Thinkabit_Lab! Amazing lessons, resources, and inspiring hands on activities using C++ programming and robotics.
@VT_ThinkabitLab @QualcommforGood @FCPSSTEAM @FCPSScience @fcpsnews
Ss @microbit_edu moisture sensors all set up and functioning perfectly! All set to add on automated water pumps next week. Great task for exploring conditional coding and real world data. 🌿 #microbit#stemeducation#primarystem#edtech
5th graders are problem-solving like computer scientists & participating in "Escape the Planet," a coding challenge. @AFCEABelvoir @FtBelvoirES @FCPSSTEAM @dodeagrants @NancyHRowland