High School Girls Use PicoCrickets to Learn Programming Skills
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This case study discusses Laura Enman, Program Coordinator at Techbridge, and her efforts to work with fourteen high school girls and teach them engineering and computer science principles. She used PicoCrickets which are "tiny computers that can make things spin, light up, and play music" to teach programming. At the end of the course, the girls were excited about the possibilities of computer programming.
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- Science > Technology
- Education > General
Education Levels:
- Grade 1
- Grade 2
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5
- Grade 6
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
- Grade 9
- Grade 10
- Grade 11
- Grade 12
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This case study discusses Laura Enman, Program Coordinator at Techbridge, and her efforts to work with fourteen high school girls and teach them engineering and computer science principles. She used PicoCrickets which are "tiny computers that can make things spin, light up, and play music" to teach programming. At the end of the course, the girls were excited about the possibilities of computer programming.
