{"id":1479,"date":"2015-12-14T19:02:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T19:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brl.ee.washington.edu\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2015-12-14T19:02:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T19:02:47","slug":"brl-volunteers-with-hour-of-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/2015\/12\/14\/brl-volunteers-with-hour-of-code\/","title":{"rendered":"BRL volunteers with Hour of Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1485 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ada.ece.uw.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2015\/12\/IMG_9411.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9411\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>On Sunday, BRL lab members Andrew Pace and Katherine Pratt volunteered at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumofflight.org\/\">Museum of Flight<\/a> with an afternoon of technology and <a href=\"https:\/\/code.org\/learn\">Hour of Code<\/a>. Over a dozen mostly female students from 2nd, 4th, and 6th-8th grader rotated through four stations: <a href=\"https:\/\/code.org\/starwars\">Star Wars<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/code.org\/mc\">Minecraft<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/littlebits.cc\/\">littleBits<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/csedweek.org\/unplugged\/thinkersmith\">offline coding<\/a>. Students learned to program using Java and drag-and-drop. Afterward, they watched a video of the recent successful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueorigin.com\/#youtube9pillaOxGCo\">Blue Origin launch and landing<\/a>, and were able to ask questions with one of their engineers. It was a fun, enjoyable, and most importantly educational afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1486 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/ada.ece.uw.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2015\/12\/IMG_9413.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9413\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>Hour of Code is an annual program run by <a href=\"https:\/\/code.org\/\">Code.Org<\/a>, a non-profit based in Seattle that aims to increase exposure and involvement with computer science especially with females and underrepresented minorities.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, BRL lab members Andrew Pace and Katherine Pratt volunteered at the Museum of Flight with an afternoon of technology and Hour of Code. Over a dozen mostly female students from 2nd, 4th, and 6th-8th grader rotated through four stations: Star Wars, Minecraft, littleBits, and offline coding. Students learned to program using Java and &#8230; <a title=\"BRL volunteers with Hour of Code\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/2015\/12\/14\/brl-volunteers-with-hour-of-code\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about BRL volunteers with Hour of Code\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}