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Rising third grader Machi codes a thunderstorm.
A digital thunderstorm rumbled into a Conte West School classroom of rising third graders who were in the middle of a computer-code-created camping trip.
That was the scene at Conte West School Wednesday morning during a two-hour coding lesson with third graders to-be from around New Haven.
The young students learned some elementary computer programming skills by conjuring up a digital camping trip — which was interrupted by a sudden computer-generated thunderstorm.
Family Academy of Multilingual Exploration (FAME) math coach Stephanie White and Edgewood School math coach Sarah Clarke teamed up in the Conte classroom to host a weeklong summer coding program with the young students.
White and Clarke are a part of a team of 16 New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) district educators with…