Eighth graders at South Science and Technology Magnet School showed off their innovative side at the end of the year Project Lead the Way presentations.
“They’ve been working on a project lead the way course called innovators and makers and through that, they’ve been working with micro bits and programming, coding those micro bits," said Paulette Boes, a social studies and technology teacher at the school.
Students had the option of creating some type of dispenser, something they can wear that promotes night safety, or an interactive art display.
The students were required to coding for the project, but that was one of the things they were most looking forward to.
“I enjoy coding. It’s fun, I mean, it’s an interesting way to do it," said student William McClintock, 14. "It’s nice that there’s simpler ways instead of going through in-depth coding where you have to type it all out.”
The coding for these projects was more in-depth than what the students have done up to this point, but it was nothing they could not handle.
“Before we even did this class I wanted to be a Google engineer when I get older so this is just helping me further my career dream," said student Maggie Bloomfield, 14. "We’ve kind of messed around with coding since we were little kids but it’s never been as serious as this type of coding. It’s an easy format of coding but it’s still like in-depth than what we did as first graders."
South had received a $15,000 dollar grant from Verizon to purchase curriculum and material for the technology side of Project Lead the Way.
