We had the pleasure of working w/ UCF Camp Connect this summer. Every year UCF hosts various STEM related camps, workshops, and activities for K-12 students. From their website: “Camp Connect is a week-long day camp that introduces students to a variety of engineering disciplines such as Electrical, Computer, Industrial, Mechanical, Aerospace, Civil, Environmental, Construction,…
Last night we participated in Orlando Science School Elementary‘s “Family Technology Night.” This time we brought along an IR sensing teddy bear. The kids (and parents) really enjoyed seeing how cool/hot they were – and learning about different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. We presented the following exhibits: IR camera connected to Raspberry Pi 3…
Local digital artist and musician, Ginger Leigh, spoke with the Girls in Coding Club (GCC) at Orlando Science School Elementary today. She presented some of her projects that she did for the Orlando Science Center, and presented an instrument with minimal coding in Processing.
Thank you to Full Sail University student and Cacti Council volunteer Patrick O’Connor for speaking with Bishop Moore High School programming students today. Patrick demoed previous projects and answered questions. Patrick O’Connor and Aroosh Bhakhri have agreed to mentor students Kathy Kong and Kris Buno with their VR CPR simulator, which they plan to demo…
Parke House Academy 3rd-grade student Liam Kimes used our Kano Pixel Kit to create a pixel man, as well as complete the exercises that come with their software. He was able to easily apply the MIT Scratch block code format learned at school to the Kano software, and he liked that he was able to…
We had the honor of working with Ashlynn Christian and her Girls in Coding Club at Orlando Science Schools Elementary for a few months this year. Most of the girls are in 3rd grade, and they used Google’s CS-First to create custom stories and complete specific challenges. The learned about input, events, loops, and moving…
Cacti Council volunteer and Full Sail University student Pablo Bernal-Alarcon, together with a team of artists and subject matter experts, developed an educational math game for kids called The Adventures of Ana & Sebastian. A full credit list of contributors is available in game. The game centers around two protagonists, Ana & Sebastian, who travel…
Full Sail University student volunteers Brennan Rodriguez, Matt Moody, and David Crane help students at Winter Park High School with their Unity 3D projects, under the guidance of technology teacher Kent Wenger. Brennan and Matt also prepared various slide presentations and tutorials, and demoed them to students. After the presentations they walked around and answered…
One of our 5th grade Parke House Academy students, Diego Amador, made us a pixelized pumpkin for Halloweeen this year, on our Kano Pixel Kit. Diego has been programming with Google CS-First, which uses Scratch underneath. Kano’s programming IDE uses a very similar block-based interface, so the skills transfer! * We know more students…
We’ve been working with 5th graders @ The Parke House Academy this academic year. We’re mostly using the Google CS-First curriculum together with brief lectures on computer science. The kids are super pumped about making their own games each week! Many of them go above and beyond by completing the extra features at the end…
