Abby Miranda, a first grader at Curie Elementary, won the #CSforSD video contest in the K-6 category. Students submitted short videos to share a computer science project, what CS means to them, or how it can spark a change in K-12, community college and university levels.During the pandemic, Abby raised butterflies. In the video, she showcases and discusses her “Butterfly Lifecycle” computer program written in Scratch. Images of eggs, hatching caterpillars, its growth and metamorphosis, changing of the chrysalis through the butterfly’s release are shown. Abby also shared what computer science means to her. She states, “Coding is important because coding is everywhere. Everything around us is mostly coding. Everyone should learn how to code.” When asked if her code worked the first time, she wrote her program, she responded that not everything did. Abby added, “It’s okay to make mistakes because we learn from them.”
