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Lenny and Lexie wearing eclipse glasses

Lenny and Lexie Get Ready for a Solar Eclipse

Hands-on Activities

Help Lenny and Lexie get ready for a solar eclipse using your unplugged coding skills.

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Curious Careers - Dive into Digital

Events

December 7, 2023

Student, Grades: 6-8

In this session of Curious Careers, we'll be exploring how the world of work is being transformed by digital advances and the careers available in the digital realm.

Simple computer icons

Can you design icons for different screens?

Hands-on Activities

Use pixels to design an icon in two sizes.

Lenny and Lexie

Lexie’s Holiday Wish List

Hands-on Activities

Try this fun board game that develops your unplugged coding skills.

Astronaut cartoon

Can you program Dot to get back to Earth?

Hands-on Activities

Using Scratch, create a program that will get Dot back to Earth.

Graph paper with pencil crayons

Can you code a program with graph paper?

Hands-on Activities

Create a code to travel from the start square to the end square of a graph paper or draw a picture.

Group of adults looking at code

Coding is For Everyone!

Lessons

Students will learn the importance of computer programming skills across a variety of career areas and how these skills can make them more employable.

Math-Videos

Computational Thinking

Backgrounders

This backgrounder looks in depth at Computational Thinking (CT) and why it is important for today's students.

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The Solutioneers Week 6: Just Keep Coding

Interactives

This week's episodes and hands-on activity explore Python coding.

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The Solutioneers Week 4: Turn That Frown Into Code

Interactives

This week's episodes and hands-on activity explore AI learning and facial recognition.

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The Solutioneers Week 1: An Unexpected Variable

Interactives

This week's episodes and hands-on activity explore block programming.

Encryption is used to protect data

Keeping Data Safe: Introduction to Encryption

Backgrounders

Learn about the branch of mathematics involved with keeping data safe known as encryption.

Children’s play mat with pictures of a road and landmarks

Rosie's Walk

Lessons

Students develop and apply communicating, sequencing and spatial reasoning skills as they create and navigate a maze to get Rosie the Hen safely home for lunch.