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Scratch Jr and Scratch

Scratch Jr and Scratch

Prior to the break, students at William O. Schaefer were “lighting up” their brains by developing their computational thinking skills while exploring Lightbot. Ask your child to explain algorithms and debugging, or procedures and loops! We have learned to...
Hour of Code 2018

Hour of Code 2018

What is the Hour of Code? The Hour of Code is a one hour introduction to computer science. It takes place every year during Computer Science Education Week, the first week in December. It began as a coding challenge to give students a fun first introduction to...
Introduction to Coding

Introduction to Coding

What is coding?  Why is it important to us?   Click on the link to watch the video to learn more.   The Hour of Code is almost here! Check out this video for a peek into this year’s theme: Explore Lightbot.  See if you can Lightbot to light up the blue...