Coding Your Life

   

Day three for our Coding Day Camp crowd and we were excited to apply coding to all aspects of our lives.  We started the day with a little team building and strategizing as we played a rather fun and silly game known as "Would you Rather."  After warming up we jumped into some coding fun.

  Today we learned the difference between engineering, electronics,  and

data by working with a couple of different things.  The game operation showed our youth the difference between data and engineering and also let them know that data and coding don't have to be electronically done.  Sometimes cards and written instructions can provide that rather than technology.

 

Using our snap circuit kit and our ipad to run teh coding program our youth learned about electronics and what they need to engineer to make things work and how coding enhances those things.  With this fun too our youth were able to build a circuit for power and then operate the componets through code.  However they learned quickley everything was dependant on everything else to work.  So coding is an important part of our lives.

Next up we hit the kitchen to code our snack.  Code your snack? Yes, code our snack.  We made trail mix with a set of four ingredients.  They were known as A,B,C, and D.  We used 3/4 c. A + 1/2 c. B+ 1/2 C. C+ 1/4 c. D= Tasty Treat.  When our campers deconstructed the algorithm and put ingredients in place their wrote their own code for a new trailmix that we tried and they were, as a group, very pleased with themselves.

Lunch today consisted of a coded spaghetti.  Campers decided if we wre having white or red sauce and if we were having meat or not in our sauce.  We were told it was the best spaghetti ever, but they might have been a little biased becuase they had their hands in making it what it was.

After lunch we learned about how we perceive things and the millions of thoughts it takes to determine what something is.  To demonstrate we played animal charades and pictionary.  Two very different ways to look at, and describe the same thing.  We also figured out how to code a walk and then fulfilled it.  Some of our campers found out that what they plan in their heads and what they can execute are two very different things.

After coding our walk we went back into the kitchen to make our coded cupcakes.  Our youth followed the code on the box and used a hand beater that was possible a century old.  It was the perfect way to show them that technology and coding aren't necessarily required to be together.  When the cupcakes were ready it was time for our campers to code the design.  they colored their icing, picked the toppings and adjusted for the seconded cupcake if the first design didn't work.  I must say this activity was deliciously fun!     

We also had a little time to enjoy running our Sphero robotic ball around our carpet and learn how to control this fun litte robot with a coding dashboard.

Before we knew it we were talking about our field trip for tomorrow and a change in plans for lunch at Golden Corral.  What a fun time we will have exploring patterns and textures that are intrigrual in coding with art.

To see all the photos from today's fun please click on this link.