CIS Coding and Robotics Club 2018

It was a full house each Tuesday for 8 weeks this Spring, as our 5th annual after school club met to explore computer programming and robotics.  The CIS students used Scratch to animate Mother's Day projects.  We built Lego WeDo robots using the same kits provided by the COCISD Education Foundation our first year "in business" so thanks for funding that grant proposal waay baaack! The last 2 weeks were spent programming Dot and Dash robots  using an iPad app named Blockly.

Just like what's happening at LJH, I feel like the past years of this club, combined with work in class and 4 years of Digic@mp (summer tech camp) are building capacity so that the students are more easily understanding the processes and more willing to do the problem solving to make things work.
It's not the programming that's hard, it's the problem solving after you realize that it "doesn't work."
YET!!!
Here are some examples- I encourage you to check out the animated Mother's Day cards that were created using Scratch!  Some students from club helped students during an enrichment time to create these!


Scratch Animated Mother's Day Cards: Click here.





WeDo Lego Robots- build, plug in to the computer, program, and run!

 

Here are some snippets of programs built using Blockly to make Dot and Dash communicate with each other.