[FRIAM] Micro:bit event March 8

[Paige Prescott]

just a note that there will be other microcontroller projects there, not
just Micro:bits.  The main goal of the March 8th event is to inspire
younger students who are learning CS via Micro:bits.  The hope is that if
they see adults in the community using Micro:bits in interestings ways,
they will be inspired to do more with them and if they also see the range
of microncontrollers that are being used they will hopefully want to learn
more about them in the future.

Official invites and registration for the event will be forthcoming.

Can't wait to some fun see Micro:bit projects.

many thanks,
Paige

On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 9:49 PM Edward Angel <angel at cs.unm.edu> wrote:

> On March 8 4-6 PM, there will be a community micro:bit event at Meow Wolf,
> jointly sponsored by Meow Wolf, the Computer Science Alliance and the Santa
> Fe Alliance for Science. It will bring together students, teachers,
> parents, hackers and many others including I hopeFRIAM and Wedtech to demo,
> share  and, most importantly, generate interest in CS in the community.
>
> A few weeks ago, Ken Prokuski and I brought our micor:bits to FRIAM where
> they were of interest to many of you. I learned about micro;bits from Paige
> Prescott, who many of you may know from her long involvement with Project
> GUTS and NM CS for All. She is now head of the New Mexico Computer Science
> Teachers Association and the new Computer Science Alliance. The event had
> its genesis in a conversation I had with Paige about using them to spark
> interest in CS within our community.
>
> Micro:bits are little micro controllers that were developed in the UK by
> the BBC and made available to all school lids. You can get various kits
> from Amazon and other sites for as little as $20. They are amazing little
> devices. Each has a simple display, buttons for input, bluetooth for
> communicating with other micro”bits and even cell phones, an accelerometer,
> a temperature center and the ability to output sound and voltages to
> control other devices such as motors. Programming can be done via a web app
> using block JS, JS or Python. They are truly remarkable little devices. I
> was able to get my first program going within a few minutes.
>
> We hope that many of you will get your own micro:bits and develop some fun
> apps to demo. Why not a complexity app or two? Or even a more philosophical
> app that Nick might develop.
>
> More information to come as the event develops.
>
> Ed
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> Ed Angel
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> (ARTS Lab)
> Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico
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*Paige Prescott*
CSTA-NM <https://cstanm.org/> President
UNM OILS <https://oils.unm.edu/> PhD student
Facilitator- Code.org <http://code.org/> & Project GUTS
<https://teacherswithguts.org/>
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