At Fred M. Lynn Middle School, students watch the SmartBoard enthralled as a red and gray rocket shoots fireballs at alien saucers with the first hit changing the saucer to blue and the second shot resulting in an explosion. This is the introduction of a one-hour coding lesson by Dr. Michael Hsiao, a professor from Virginia Tech’s Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in partnership with Pink Space Theory, a mobile science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM) based makerspace located in Washington, DC. Pink Space Theory contacted Audrey Berryman, assistant principal, to work with Virginia Tech and a new program to design games.
Game “Changineer” is a fun and creative program created by Hsiao that teaches students computational thinking, game design, and the logic behind popular video games.
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