Worcester Students Show Off Coding Skills

From Worcester Public Schools:

On Thursday, May 26 from 1:15pm to 2:00pm, students at Elm Park Elementary School will be demonstrating their coding skills. WPS recently purchased several robots that respond to the codes programmed by students; students will use coding to make the robots travel from one location to another.

The program is led by Mr. Rigo Sanchez (Grade 5) and Miss Christina Hatziemmanuel (Librarian) who teamed up with Mr. Dante Quercio (Instructional Technology Coach). Since it’s inception, students have shows great enthusiasm!

Teachers have decided to expand the program and will be raising funds toward this goal.

Coding is very important to our students; computer science professionals are in demand for jobs in the technology field and according to Code.org, only one in ten U.S. schools teach children to code. It is forecast that computer-related employment will rise 22 percent by 2020, with the strongest demand for software developers.

Coding instills creative thinking, problem solving, perseverance, collaboration, inquiry and communication skills in participants.