Saturday, February 27, 2016

Saturday coding fun at The Iron Yard Durham!
 Follow their Meetup page for information on future classes.
 http://www.meetup.com/The-Iron-Yard-Durham/

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Listen to BTV Friday to find out if you are taking a toy home for the weekend! 

Homework is now posted, have fun!

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Summer Camp Opportunities! 

Check out these links to find out about summer coding camps in the area:


Scholarships are available for the NC State IDTech camps, but applications must be received by March 4th, find out more here:



and one LESS expensive camp:


Looking for something more challenging than code.org to do at home?  Try the JavaScript Drawing and Animation course at Khan Academy:


Today we explored conditionals and how they can be useful in programming. 

Listen to BTV tomorrow to find out if you are one of the lucky students taking a toy home this weekend! 

Homework will be posted tomorrow. Track 1 only a couple of weeks left to earn your badges, be sure to get your homework turned in! 





Monday, February 15, 2016

Snow Day...time to CODE! 
Looking for something to do? Try a new Sudoku puzzle: 

                              Easy                                                        Hard
   

Or a new coding activity at https://www.tynker.com/courses/

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

UPDATED

Today we got our first introduction to the 8 bit binary language computers use.  We made bracelets with our initials in a secret code...not really but boy that sounds cool!  People will think you really know a secret code after you learn more about binary next week.  

Homework will be posted on Edmodo tomorrow.  Sounds like we had a lot of fun with the Sudoku puzzles this week, any guesses what the theme will be for this week's homework?  

Students being awarded toys this week will be announced during this afternoon's announcements.  Since tomorrow is early release please have them pick their toys up Friday morning as soon as they get to school.  

Mrs. Hawley will be hosting a Digital Learning Day on February 17th.  THIS HAS BEEN POSTPONED.  







Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Listen to BTV tomorrow to find out who gets to take toys home this weekend!  Parents, please send me photos of your student(s) coding with the toys so I can post them.  

Track 4, don't forget to check out the homework on Edmodo.  Turn it in before class next week and win a trip to our prize box!

Read the post below to find out about a FREE Saturday programming class being offered by The Iron Yard. 


We only ate a few....








WOO-HOO Free coding classes!!!

The Iron Yard Durham will be offering our first set of FREE kid's programming classes for 2016. The class will be February 27, 2016 from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM. Please RSVP through our Meetup page. If you can't make this class, don't worry as we will let you know the dates for our March class through the Meetup page.

We will be offering a class for 8-12 year olds.  Please sign up your children for this class only if they are within this age group.

Learn the fundamentals of coding, for beginners to intermediate students in Scratch, a programming platform for children.  This workshop will guide you through coding fundamentals essential for future practice.  Kids need to have a laptop that is fully charged with a power cord. Parents are required to attend with their student, and remain on-site for the duration of the course.
We will be offering a class for 13-18 year olds.  Please sign up your children for this class only if they are within this age group.
Create a personal website using HTML and CSS, the fundamental building blocks of web design!  You'll gain a strong foundation in HTML and CSS by building a website all about you and you'll build skills that will transfer to any number of future website projects.  Upon completion of the course, you'll will be receiving a certificate of achievement!
Kids need to have a laptop that is fully charged with a power cord. Parents are required to attend with their student and remain on-site for the duration of the course.

Click the following link for their Meet Up page. Click more meet ups for information on the class for 8-12 year olds.

http://www.meetup.com/The-Iron-Yard-Durham/