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Good morning everyone on behalf of Vita-Learn Project IGNITE - Welcome to Day 2 of Hour of Code Week What fun to watch all the evidence of our students learning to code this week. I've created a storify https://storify.com/techsavvygirl/vermont-hour-of-code-2017 Keep on sharing! There are instructions on how to share here <http://thinkaboutcode.blogspot.com/p/add-your-voice.html> and the secret email address is [log in to unmask] I want to say a big THANK YOU to Peter Drescher from the Agency of Education and Leah Joly and her students for an inspiring conversation streamed live this morning with engineers from NRG systems on Coding Smart Objects. The software and firmware engineers from NRG were totally impressed with the projects that the Williston School students created and coded using Microbits and Circuit Playground. If you have been wondering about the Microbit, I would encourage you to watch the archive of Tuesdays Hour of Code guest speaker series You can watch it here <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PifbHGTLqRg> Tomorrow morning our guest speakers series will continue with a focus on younger learners with students from Bradford Elementary and Tunbridge School and two more members of the Code community. On Thursday we'll be hearing from Vermont High School students from CVU and BFA St. Albans along with members of the code community in Vermont You can check out the the whole Vermont guest speakers series here http://thinkaboutcode.blogspot.com/p/guest-spakers.html Keep on coding and sharing everyone! Lucie On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Drescher, Peter <[log in to unmask] > wrote: > Hello all: > > > > Happy Hour of Code week folks! Hopefully some of your schools are taking > part in the activities and starting some conversations locally about coding > and computer science. > > > > We had a great kick off day for it here at the Agency yesterday, we > invited State Legislators to join us as we had some students in-house that > acted as teachers in showing adults some coding examples. It was great! > Elementary students from E. Montpelier school (Wash. Central SU) as well > as High schoolers and Mid schoolers from Montpelier showed up and did the > tutoring. We had Agency folks cycling through in the AM to work with the > students as well. We only had one legislator come by, Rep. Dylan > Giambatista from Chittenden County, but it was a great event nevertheless > and gave some adults unfamiliar with coding a window in to what is > possible. > > > > Through the week, and with a partnership with Vita Learn, there are lots > of things happening that your schools can tune into. Just check out the > website at > > http://thinkaboutcode.blogspot.com and join us one at one of the > activities or discussions. > > > > The VT Agency of Education is happy to share any activities you are doing > for Hour of Code week. We’d also like to feature some of those activities > through our social media channels. > > > > Please be sure to use the hashtags #vted and #hourofcode > > > > Happy coding! > > > > Peter Drescher > > State Director of Educational Technology > > VT Agency of Education > > 219 N. Main St. Suite 402 > <https://maps.google.com/?q=219+N.+Main+St.+Suite+402%0D+Barre,+VT%C2%A0%C2%A0+05641%0D+802&entry=gmail&source=g> > > Barre, VT > <https://maps.google.com/?q=219+N.+Main+St.+Suite+402%0D+Barre,+VT%C2%A0%C2%A0+05641%0D+802&entry=gmail&source=g> > 05641 > <https://maps.google.com/?q=219+N.+Main+St.+Suite+402%0D+Barre,+VT%C2%A0%C2%A0+05641%0D+802&entry=gmail&source=g> > > 802-479-1169 <(802)%20479-1169> > > @VTED_Technology > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Search <http://list.uvm.edu/archives/school-it.html> the SCHOOL-IT Archive > > Manage <http://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SCHOOL-IT&A=1> your > Subscription to SCHOOL-IT > -- Lucie deLaBruere www.LearningWithLucie.com http://twitter.com/techsavvygirl Google Voice (802) 557 0013 [log in to unmask] -------------------------------------- Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - James M. Barrie --------------------------------------- Google Certified Educator / Google for Education Certified Trainer, Raspberry Pi Certified Educator