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To highlight Hour of Code Week, Dec. 5-9, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction’s Office of Digital Teaching and Learning and Superintendent Catherine Truitt are hosting an Hour of Code Student Expo on Dec. 7 from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Student computer science teams from across the state will showcase the skills they are learning in coding and computer science with presentations and hands-on activities. Schools from 13 districts and charter schools across grade bands K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12 will travel to NCDPI to present current computer science projects and activities.
Additionally, during this expo, Code.org will announce a partnership with the Agency to provide professional learning in computer science to ensure more than fifty of North Carolina’s school districts will have a qualified computer science teacher at every one of their high schools, at no cost to the state, districts or teachers.
What: NCDPI Hour of Code Student Expo
When: Wednesday, Dec. 7 at 1 p.m.
Please plan to arrive between 12:30-12:45 p.m. to check in and conduct any requested interviews prior to the event.
Remarks slated for 1 p.m.
Where: N.C. Department of Public Instruction
301 N Wilmington St, Raleigh, NC 27601
Room 150
Who:
- Superintendent Catherine Truitt
- Sean Roberts, Code.org Vice President of Government Affairs
- North Carolina Legislators: Rep. Erin Paré, Rep. Donna White & Rep. Matthew Winslow
- NC Public School students from the following public school units:
- Beaufort County Schools
- Cabarrus County Schools
- Caldwell County Schools
- Carteret County Schools
- Cumberland County Schools
- Edgecombe County Public Schools
- Guilford County Schools
- Lake Norman Charter Elementary School
- Moore County Schools
- North Carolina School of the Deaf and Blind
- Northeast Academy of Aerospace and Advanced Technologies
- Stanly County Schools
- Wilson County Schools
- Wake County Public School System
- Wayne County Public Schools
RSVP: To RSVP, please email MaryLee.Gibson@dpi.nc.gov.
Note: The opportunity for one-on-one interviews will be available before the event. Please let us know via RSVP if you're planning to attend.
A few examples of the individual school presentations include:
- Beaufort County Schools students will be demonstrating how to code the Sphero, a robotics-based toy, to go to different locations on a grid. Once they arrive at their desired location, the student will work on a multi-step math problem and explain the process used to solve the problem.
- Caldwell County’s Code on the Go mobile classroom offers students and teachers the opportunity to experience coding activities through interactive hands-on lessons that they normally would not have access to if not provided at the district level. Come see the Mobile Classroom live and in action.
- From Guilford County, watch an all-female all-rookie teams learn to build and code robots.
- From practical, functional, pieces and hardware, to flexible fidget toys and everywhere in between, Lake Norman Charter Elementary School students demonstrate how 3D-printed objects are changing the way consumers have access to goods and materials.
- Moore County Schools’ first-grade students learn how to be programmers and problem solvers, using their iPads, and working through a code.org course. The “Pinning Down Data with Sphero” lesson serves as a great introduction on how to explore scientific experiments with variables. In the end, students were able to reverse engineer possible reasons for data gathered and interpret their results, therefore Pinning Down the Data.
- North Carolina School of the Deaf and Blind students will showcase how computer science is involved in various careers and its importance while demonstrating how they use block-based (MS) and text-based coding (HS) to control a robot and highlight the importance of accessibility for inclusion.
- Northeast Academy of Aerospace and Advanced Technologies students will demonstrate a vast array of computer science applications.
- Wilson County Schools students will demonstrate what they can do with Que and Sphero Robots.
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