By Mac-Arthur Louis, EMBA
Adjunct Professor, Robotics Coach VEX Team# 2538A
Thursday, April 22 marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The COVID-19 pandemic has kept us socially distanced, but the participants in our STEM Outreach Workshop Initiative (SOWI) and their families remain active on the internet learning about innovative-approaches to honor Earth Day.
Earth Day events may be canceled, but the students from the SOWI initial cohort class recently transitioned from Block-based to Text-based coding using Python. On April 17, students heard a lecture on ways to protect the coral reef as a precursor to Earth Day. To complete their first text-based coding challenge, each student wrote a program to clean the coral reef and received a certificate with the amount of kilogram (kg) of trash their cyber robot was able to collect to celebrate Earth Day in Cyberspace.
On April 24, the students will be learning how to write an algorithm in Python and have the robot perform this activity. This is a major accomplishment for our students and a job well done!
If you would like to donate to help more students participate in SOWI, visit Make a Gift | HVCC and select ODEI STEM Outreach fund. Also, you can join us on social media: https://www.facebook.com/HVCCODEI
#HVCCSTEM4All
Published: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 11:50:52 +0000 by t.hannibalwillia