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  • Durham School of the Arts
  • Durham, NC
  • More than a third of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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This project will allow us to bring Raspberry Pi computer kits into our school, which will enable us to expand our students' knowledge of and skills in coding. Our Coding Club is offered to students in grades 6-8 to provide them the opportunity to create, problem-solve, and develop thinking skills through collaborative and individual activities that incorporate coding into a variety of curricular concepts. The group consists of students with a wide range of coding abilities. In order to challenge the students with more coding experience, they will learn to code using the Raspberry Pi computers and create innovative projects. The idea for this project came about when a former student who is now a senior in high school reached out to the school with a desire to get more students involved in coding. She has been working with the staff at a local nonprofit to offer coding classes to middle school students and is eager to expand this opportunity to our school as a way to give back to her middle school. She will be helping to facilitate this year's sessions, but we are also planning to implement a “train the trainer” model in which we train a core group of students to then share their knowledge with other students and to serve as the facilitators for next year’s coding club. This model would continue, with each group teaching a new group as the leaders.

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This project will allow us to bring Raspberry Pi computer kits into our school, which will enable us to expand our students' knowledge of and skills in coding. Our Coding Club is offered to students in grades 6-8 to provide them the opportunity to create, problem-solve, and develop thinking skills through collaborative and individual activities that incorporate coding into a variety of curricular concepts. The group consists of students with a wide range of coding abilities. In order to challenge the students with more coding experience, they will learn to code using the Raspberry Pi computers and create innovative projects. The idea for this project came about when a former student who is now a senior in high school reached out to the school with a desire to get more students involved in coding. She has been working with the staff at a local nonprofit to offer coding classes to middle school students and is eager to expand this opportunity to our school as a way to give back to her middle school. She will be helping to facilitate this year's sessions, but we are also planning to implement a “train the trainer” model in which we train a core group of students to then share their knowledge with other students and to serve as the facilitators for next year’s coding club. This model would continue, with each group teaching a new group as the leaders.

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