Bellevue School District: Hour Of Code School Activities Complement BSD's STEM Initiatives This School Year

Bellevue WA

20 January, 2022

6:21 PM

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Press release from the Bellevue School District: January 11, 2022 BSD science teachers are implementing a STEM pilot program using robots and critical thinking funded by the Bellevue Schools Foundation. Students code robots to transplant coral as a solution to declining coral reef health in Hawaii. Grades 6-12 STEM Curriculum Developer, Yusra Obaid, talks about how the pilot program will create an inclusive STEM pathway for students to engage, participate, learn, critically think and develop skills to become creators of their future world. Medina Elementary School fourth and fifth grade students coded Ozobots to trace their favorite shapes using the Ozoblockly coding language in preparation to use them for a social studies project. Fifth graders in Shafiqa Darani's class created dinosaur-themed mazes and used color codes to make Ozobots move around the maze using various speeds and dance motions. Learn More Hour of Code One-to-One Initiative 2022 Levy Renewals Ozoblocky Coding Language This press release was produced by the Bellevue School District. The views expressed here are the author's own.