4th and 5th graders are participating in the Hour of Code in the media center this week. (Other grades may do this later, but they have been preparing for our author visit with Julia Cook.) The purpose behind the Hour of Code is to expose students to coding and to generate interest in future careers in computer science. I provided lots of choices for trying coding, but one of the favorites seemed to be programming lights for the Georgia Christmas tree near the White House in Washington, D.C. The programs the students wrote for the lights will actually run and they were given the date and time that their program would be used when they submitted their finished program - how cool is that?!?!?
Keep checking back for more pictures after 4th grade classes on Friday.
