Friday, September 21, 2018

E.B. Scripps Students Embark on STEAM Journey

Third grade students at E.B. Scripps Elementary are taking a new challenge head-on in their MakerSpace. They will build and program a Piper computer.
Students working in teams of two use a blueprint to construct the case given the wooden pieces, nuts, bolts and screws. One student triumphantly declared, “We used a screwdriver correctly!” Once the casing is constructed, students will connect a Raspberry Pi (a credit card-sized computer “brain”) to input and output devices. Over the ten weeks, students will code the computer. Skills including collaboration, critical thinking, computational thinking and computer science are just a few students develop during the experience. The school and teachers are embarking on the STEAM journey together with their students to provide engaging, hands-on computer science projects. Thank you parents from the Scripps Community for coming together to support STEAM learning in our schools!