Welcome to the CTY Webinar
INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
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• Welcome and introductions
• Today’s session will last about 20 minutes
• Feel free to ask questions at any time by speaking into your phone or by using the “Q&A” feature at the top of your screen
• Please press *6 to mute your phone; #6 will unmute your phone
• Copies of the slides from today’s presentation will be available from the web page you will be directed when we conclude the session
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BEFORE WE GET STARTED
• Basic information• What you will need• Overview• Projects• Scratch programming• Questions?
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WEBINAR AGENDA
BASIC INFORMATION
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• Session based• Weekly due dates• Lectures, activities, discussion boards & assignments• Ungraded but must keep pace!• Prerequisites
• Completion of grade 2 and qualifying math score• Students should also be comfortable with computers and
file management.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED
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• Lab kit/supplies,
• MaKey MaKey
• Computer with USB input.
• Free Scratch software
• Many commonly available household items like tape, paper clips, rubber bands.
• Many perishable items like lemons, potatoes, PlayDoh
• No textbook required
OVERVIEW
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• 10 weeks: 6 lecture units, 2 project units, 2 units for the final project
• Each student is assigned an instructor
• Lectures are prerecorded & can be watched at any time throughout the week.
• 6 major objectives for the course:
1. Develop and understand scientific hypotheses about engineering
2. Understand the scientific principles of electric charge, force & energy
3. Describe, create, and apply knowledge of diagrams of circuits and switches
4. Make a simple programming Statement
5. Synthesize the engineering concept of a circuit with the programming concept of a Loop
6. Create scripts with Conditional Statements
ENGINEERING PROJECTS
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Door Alarm
Lemon Electricity
Play-Doh Circuits
Desktop Fan
PROGRAMMING PROJECTS
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Human Circuit
Conductive Dancepad
Potato Whacka Mole
Dodging game with controller console
SCRATCH PROGRAMMING
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• Scratch is a drag-and-drop programming language developed by MIT and used by kids around the world.
• Fundamental computer science concepts learned in this course:
– Statements
– Loops
– Boolean logic
– Conditional statements
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