Each year for the past 6 year's Code.org plans and coordinates great things for #HourOfCode during Computer Science Week.
Almost if not every year since I've been in the library, I have tied it in to class library visits and looked for ways to help facilitate Hour of Code and coding. In recent years, I've also used it as an opportunity to bring in different Makerspace items. For example, last year students used Ozobots during Hour of Code. This year they had four options: Hour of Code activities, Tinkercad's Codeblocks, Specdrum rings, or UKit robots. Why tie makerspace into Hour of Code?
To prep, I typed up instructions to help with some of the setup steps and details. You can see those below. Also, I recognized that students wouldn't have time to both build the robots and code them, so we set to pre-building the robots. A science teacher's classes pre-built two of them, I built one to see how it works, and library aides built the remaining three. (Also to prep, I had to figure out how to number/track the Spectrum rings...but that's another story for another post.)
Here are some photos of the students in action. There are also some videos of the action on the HIJHPantherLib Instagram page.
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