We Can Code IT's after-school program at Beaumont gives students the opportunity to engage their minds in new ways through computational thinking and by creating an understanding of...
March 9, 2015 will mark a monumental day for Cleveland's tech industry, as we kick off our first women-only coding bootcamp. Our 3-month immersive women-only coding bootcamp will provide women with...
We Can Code IT Mentors Northeast Ohio 8th Grade Girls On Tuesday, December 9th, We Can Code It mentored girls at IT's For Girls, an event in which 8th grade girls from school districts in Northeast Ohio get together to participate in STEM projects and meet professional women in tech fields. The annual day-long event provides middle school girls with information and incentive to pursue their interests in STEM-related subjects and IT careers. The program is presented by and takes place at Cuyahoga Valley Career Center. It includes six different STEM activities for the girls, including 3D printing and math activities. [...]
We use our Girl-friendly Minecraft server to teach STEM computational thinking and engineering concepts!
This workshop has come and gone. Check out our latest workshop, Make Your Own Haunted House Adventure in Scratch. We will have another one soon, so please sign up for our newsletter for updates! View the Educational Outcomes of this Workshop. Minecraft in Education This workshop is for the girls! Play Minecraft and learn logic skills while doing it. It's a bit like hiding peas in the mac and cheese. Girls, ages 8+, love it because they are creating theme-park like rides in Minecraft. You'll love it because they are learning the fundamental logic structures behind programming and engineering while they [...]
Girls in STEM: Scratch Tutorials Girl to girl. Mira's Scratch Programming tutorials aimed at kids. Mira shows kids how to code and animate the character, Giga, so she walks across the screen. It's easy to learn to code! Scratch is free and is used online. Just go to http://scratch.mit.edu.Play the Make Giga Walk Animation! Press the green flag to start. Press the red stop sign to stop. Remix the Code! Make your own version, based on Make Giga Walk, by following the link to our Scratch project page here!
Girls in STEM As part of Mira's We Can Code IT Series on Scratch, she shows you a very simple tutorial on how to make a ball bounce. Scratch is free and is used online. Just go to http://scratch.mit.edu. Play the Make a Ball Bounce Animation! Press the green flag to start. Press the red stop sign to stop. Remix the Code! Make your own version, based on Make a Ball Bounce, by following the link to our Scratch project page here!
