Hour of Code Supports Computer Science Bronxville School

BRONXVILLE, NY — Bronxville School students in all grade levels engaged in a variety of coding and computer programming activities for an Hour of Code for a full school week recently, as did students nationwide. The event is a popular feature of Computer Science Education Week that nurtures students’ creativity and problem-solving skills.

While the Hour of Code activities are different from the regular curriculum, they support the district’s vision and enable students to make connections and explore similar concepts to what they’re studying in their classes, according to a district spokesman.

“In our third year, we’re continuing to get 100 percent participation in the elementary school,” said Brad Ashley, the Bronxville School K-12 technology specialist. “Over the last few years we’ve developed a new computer science curriculum for our elementary school. We consider it the new literacy because we feel that students need coding in their daily lives if they’re going to compete in a 21st-century world, and Hour of Code really helps to get students energized.

“We’re showing that computer science is the new literacy and why the Hour of Code is so important,” he said.

Throughout the week, the district provided a variety of self-guided coding activities, based on grade level, to the students. Middle school students participated in the Hour of Code during their technology classes in which they learned how to develop their own apps, engaged in block-based programming and experimented with Java script to create news videos.

Meanwhile, members of a new app design class at the high school created their own Hour of Code and engaged in coding exercises using the Swift programming language.

Watch a video about Bronxville School’s Hour of Code participation below:

Photo caption: Bronxville Middle School seventh-graders experimented with Java script to create their own videos effects and graphics during Hour of Code. Photo credit: Bronxville Union Free School District.