Computer Science Modules

Students use programming skills to clean up a park and keep trash out of the landfill.

Students use MakeCode and micro:bits to design a signal bracelet that displays signals when activated by kinesthetic inputs.

Students train and test an online photo classification model to distinguish between photos of animals and photos of trash.

Students visualize heatwave data to identify who could benefit most from a medicine cooler.

Students write an algorithm for a micro:bit that continuously monitors temperature and sounds an alarm when a medicine cooler gets too warm.

Students use a micro:bit’s accelerometer and concepts such as loops, conditionals, and variables to develop a step counting algorithm in MakeCode.

Students train a computer to analyze slipper user reviews and investigate how adjusting the training data impacts the machine learning model’s accuracy.

Students use a computer to collect precise data on how high a ping pong ball bounces on different landing materials.

Students design a delivery notification system to alert them when urgent items are delivered to a landing pad.

Students explore how computer algorithms can be written to search Kepler Space Telescope data for evidence of exoplanets.

Students use micro:bits and MakeCode to design and build a simple light sensor.

Students program micro:bits to measure and send accelerometer data from one micro:bit to another, simulating part of an earthquake early warning system.

Students manipulate an algorithm that is applied to survey responses about earthquakes to understand how the intensity calculation changes.

Students use MakeCode to program a micro:bit so that it can notify someone if they are in text neck position for too long.

Students develop an algorithm for a digital timer that will alert users after they have been in text neck position for a certain amount of time.