Students got to practice their partner programming skills during Hour of Code. One thing that I heard employers and colleges tell me that they felt students were lacking when they graduate from high school is the ability to really work together. We are practicing these skills during partner programming. We are practicing sharing, taking turns, communicating our ideas, listening to understand, and team planning. We also got a chance to see what it would be like to be a programmer and find out what types of jobs are available in this field. The students practiced basic programming concepts like loops and conditionals while solving puzzles.
Eric, one of the 5th graders, at RRO decided that he wanted to build and program a machine that solved the Rubix Cube. Eric told us how he had worked very hard mowing lawns, shoveling snow, and raking to earn enough money to buy a Lego Ev3 robotics kit. He shared that he did a lot of research to look at other people's designs to help him create his own creation. During that research he was able to find someone who had all ready written this type of program and he plugged his own numbers in to make it work for his cube. Eric brought his Rubix Cube Solving Robot to school to share it with the other classes. They were amazed and inspired! Good job Eric! |
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