Club 2016-2017

The first Girls Who Code Club for Lakewood Public Library (C-000003284) was held for the 2016-2017 Year.  Our club had 6 coders, 1 facilitator, 1 TA, 1 sponsor and an additional librarian assistant.   Ten (10) sessions were held between February 6, 2017 and April 10, 2017 on Monday nights.  We then held a celebration evening on April 15, 2017.

At the time, Girls Who Code used Canvas as their primary platform for learning and the club members learned to code in Scratch and Actimator while focusing on the Core 4 Computer Science Concepts of Variables, Conditionals, Loops, and Functions. Scratch (https://scratch.mit.edu) is a block-based coding environment.  Actimator is no longer available but was a platform better suited to gaming and incorporated physics concepts like gravity.

To promote Sisterhood, the club learned about Women in Tech.  Each week, they watched a short video and had a discussion about the woman they learned about.  Women featured included Imogene Heap, Ory Okolloh,  Margaret Hamilton, Miral Kotb, Tesca Fitzgerald, Riana Lynn, Ruzwana Bashir, Coe Leta Stafford, and Cynthia Solomon.

Club members also completed an Impact Project.  They chose the topic Healthy Lunches and created games and quizzes using Scratch and Actimator with the theme of that project along with some web-page resources.  The page is no longer available but these include a listing of nutritional values for foods commonly in School Lunches, a build your own Lunch Game in Scratch, a healthy food quiz in Scratch, and a game in Actimator in which the player had to avoid the allergens to prevent contaminating the food.

Resources Used for this Club

Icebreakers

Where the Wind Blows Box of Lies

Unplugged Computer Science Activities

The Intelligent Piece of Paper

Photos

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