Computer Science - Game Changers and Code Your World

Game Changers is the 2019 4-H National Youth Science Day challenge and is a collection of three activities that teaches computer science (CS) skills through game play, puzzles and animation all centered around topics they care passionately about. Developed by Google, 4-H, and West Virginia University Extension Service, It includes a computer-based activity on Google’s CS First platform and two unplugged activities that can be done all at once or individually:

• Pitch Your Passion is an online activity that teaches kids to use CS and animation to advocate for a cause or issue they care about using CS First and Scratch. Can be completed on tablets or computers.

• Program Your Playground is an unplugged activity where kids use CS skills like decomposition and conditional logic to design their own versions of tag and invent new sports and games.

• Hack Your Harvest is an unplugged activity where kids will use CS concepts like automation optimal efficiency to solve and create logic puzzles related to agriculture—or any topic kids can think of. 

We will combine Game Changers with the 2018 4-H NYSD  Code Your World.

Code Your World consists of one computer-based activity on Google’s CS First platform, using MIT’s Scratch programming language, and three unplugged activities that bring coding to life through games and interaction. It's perfect for first-time and beginner coders and will teach important CS concepts problem-solving skills.

And, we'll take a look at traditional games to see how they also promote CS skills.

Please, let me know if you are going to join me for this project so I can have materials ready.