{"id":15962,"date":"2021-04-22T11:50:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T15:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/sowi-students-celebrate-earth-day-in-cyberspace\/"},"modified":"2021-04-22T11:50:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T15:50:52","slug":"sowi-students-celebrate-earth-day-in-cyberspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/sowi-students-celebrate-earth-day-in-cyberspace\/","title":{"rendered":"SOWI Students Celebrate Earth Day in Cyberspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Mac-Arthur Louis, EMBA<br \/>\nAdjunct Professor, Robotics Coach VEX Team# 2538A<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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!<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to donate to help more students participate in SOWI, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/hvcc.edu\/giving\/online.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Make a Gift | HVCC<\/a> and select ODEI STEM Outreach fund. Also, you can join us on social media: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HVCCODEI\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HVCCODEI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>#HVCCSTEM4All<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Thu, 22 Apr 2021 11:50:52 +0000 by\u00a0t.hannibalwillia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Mac-Arthur Louis, EMBA Adjunct Professor, Robotics Coach VEX Team# 2538A Thursday, April 22 marks the 50th anniversary of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}