GATE/ Extended Learning
STEM Challenge At Home
Computer Science Week December 6-12, 2024
Build your own snowman and/or snowflakes using several different found materials in your home to create your own winter wonderland. Create with marshmallows or other found items around the house...
Tallest Snowman
Largest Snowflake
Or other items that remind you of a winter wonderland
Coding Activities for Computer Science Education Week
When is the Hour of Code? The Hour of Code takes place each year during Computer Science Education Week. The 2024 Computer Science Education Week will be December 6-12, but you can host an Hour of Code all year round. Click below for different online coding activities:
Ozobot virtual coding Use Ozobot Blockly coding to code your virtual Ozobot through mazes and challenges using the following (No Ozobot is required)
Featured Resources
3D Modeling
3D printing is a great way to build something for an idea you have. It's also a great way to make a prototype of something to test out. TinkerCAD is a powerful yet simple to use tool to not only 3D print with but also teach you how to 3D model. Give it a shot! Follow the directions below to explore TInkerCAD over the next few weeks. Check back here in a few weeks for some 3D printing challenges. Who knows? Maybe your 3D print will be a huge hit or help solve a problem for someone.!
If you're new to 3D printing start with the Beginner's Guide to TinkerCAD. When you're ready to explore TinkerCAD click on the final link.
Beginners guide to tinkercad v2.mp4Beginner's guide to TinkerCAD
Other Resources
Do you like to imagine things? Do you like to solve problems? You might like to be an engineer. Engineers are people who make things to solve problems, such as headphones, medicines, and robots. Discover how your interests connect to engineering. What kind of engineering career might be a match for you?
Google Earth is a great way to see the world if you're stuck at home! Use the Voyager tab on the left to take a virtual tour and learn more about a topic or place. You can also hit the I'm feeling lucky dice to go to a random place and explore or just go to a place you've always wanted to visit. Remember you can add your places to a project and create a slide show in Google Earth as well. Have fun exploring!
Use the Blue-Bot Emulator to program a virtual Blue-Bot just like the Blue-Bot robot! 17 different coding situations to choose from.
Use your top-secret skills to stop the computer virus and save the world! Get set for a pulse-pounding escapade that needs your heroics! A wicked game developer has seized digital control, but fear not – YOU hold the key. Your Mission: #GAMECLOVER Your assignment: Craft an epic analog board game to train our heroes. They’re storming a remote castle to halt chaos, deactivate a rogue computer, and rescue the world! More Thrills Await! Don’t miss #SpyKidsArmageddon, igniting Netflix on Sept. 22. Action, twists, and a hero’s journey like no other! Step up, embrace adventure, and let’s save our world together.
