Fun for All in Austin at the Computer Science Summit
See the flyer with all the amazing presenters sharing their passion.
Bee-Bots Dancing to Bring CS For All
Music – Art – Dancing Lessons
- Dancing with the Bees 2007
- Robotic Spelling Bee – I Love CS Fun.
- Bees Need Flowers – Plant a Seed Unplugged
- Learn More: Spring Branch ISD Bee-Bots PD
We are NOT here to Wait for the Storm to Pass
But to Learn to DANCE in the Rain.
What Small Wonders of Design can you create?
CS For All – Implementing Via Computational Thinking
Collaboration with Joe Kmoch
Pattern Recognition – Algorithms Decomposition – Abstraction
Logic – Evaluation
C R E A T I V I T Y
Persistence – Problem Solving Collaboration – Communication
Tinkering – Debugging
Integrating Computational Thinking with Dance, Art, Gardening, Garbage …
Where do you want to Dance? What makes you Happy?
GARDENING and GARBAGE
All I can do in PD is to provide the seeds,
and hope they get planted.
Bacterium Mycobacterim vaccae found in soil triggers the release of serotonin, which elevates mood and reduces anxiety. It also improves our cognitive function. Gardeners inhale these bacteria while digging in the soil. Research has found that children that grow up on farms are 30-50% less likely to develop asthma (New England Journal of Medicine)… it is good for children’s health for them to play in the dirt and get dirty. – Cosmos Magazine “How gardening could cure depression” –> Dirt Can Make You HAPPY.… so -> PLANT A SEED
BE-E a CS Advocate
BE-E a Pollinator – We can’t live without them.
Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that
it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,
But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.
For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life,
And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love,
And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
— — Extract from Kahlil Gibran’s “The Prophet”
From Lazy Gardener & Friends Houston Garden Newsletter
CT is Connecting the DOTS
Graphic From UK – where my son teaches – Alas Texas does not pay a living salary.
Learn more in Texas
Rice RUSMP Code PD
Code.org Presenters
- SBISD Houston June 15 – with Shaina Glass a CS Summit presenter
- Coding with Kids: Clubs and Resources by Stephanie Argueta Sheldon ISD
What is your future application?
Drone Dancing? and E-Textiles?
- A CS Summit Presentation: Sew Electric and Safety – Code to Market – Artbotics