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Coding and Community Service: How 5th Graders Coded a Food Drive

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Pennsylvania Convention Center, Terrace Ballroom Lobby, Table 27

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Deanna Bledsoe

CEO and Founder

Kai Coders
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Deanna uses her 20+ years of software development experience to teach kids coding. What started as an inventive way for members of her daughter’s Girl Scout troop to earn badges, turned into Kai Coders, a company focused on teaching coding to kids with the "spirit of Aloha", a welcoming, kind, and inclusive environment. She is committed to innovatively applying computer science into all subjects. Examples include incorporating invention and coding technology into a food drive, and a LEO (Love Each Other) installation incorporating music, art, and STEM teachers into a schoolwide interactive display for Mental Health Awareness month.

Session description

We coded a community service project! In this session, I will walk you through how a team of 5th graders integrated coding into an extended, real-world learning opportunity as they constructed an interactive structure built from donated food items collected at a food drive. Attendees will learn how to integrate coding and physical computing into non-traditional STEM subjects.

Session specifications

Topic:

Computer science & computational thinking

Attendee devices:

Devices not needed

Subject area:

Computer science, STEM/STEAM

ISTE Standards:

For Coaches:
Change Agent

Create a shared vision and culture for using technology to learn and accelerate transformation through the coaching process.

Collaborator

Personalize support for educators by planning and modeling the effective use of technology to improve student learning.

Learning Designer

Collaborate with educators to develop authentic, active learning experiences that foster student agency, deepen content mastery and allow students to demonstrate their competency.

Disclosure:

The submitter of this session has been supported by a company whose product is being included in the session

Coding and Community Service: How 5th Graders Coded a Food Drive

, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Terrace Ballroom Lobby, Table 27

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