CHARLOTTE — Hundreds of fifth-grade girls with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools got hands-on experience with coding.
Lake Wylie Elementary School hosted the Binary Bling Box Workshop, a hands-on introduction to coding and programming.
Students learned about Binary, the base code for all computers, and then used that code as a pattern to create bracelets of their own.
According to the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, since 2008, less than 20% of computer science degrees have been obtained by women.
Efforts like the Binary Bling Box Workshop provide innovative ways to foster a love for STEM fields at a young age.
Students were able to gain meaningful knowledge specifically targeted at North Carolina’s learning standards for math and literacy, including pattern generation and recognition, problem-solving with whole numbers and decimals, and interpreting data in multimedia presentations.
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