Eco April’s: Code for Good, Life on Land Coding Challenge
By: Meghan Thoreau, OSU Extension Educator, Community Development & STEM, Pickaway County Kids today will inherit the Earth of tomorrow, so it’s important to start their “eco-education” early. Interactive games and programming projects are great ways to educate and empower kids…
4-H Club Tools: Virtual Reality and 360-degree Video
By: Elliott Lawrence, OSU Extension Educator, 4-H Youth Development, Lucas County Today’s world is full of new learning technology resources. Some of these new technologies are geared for entertainment purposes only, but many new VR technologies are designed for the…
The UnThunkable: Teaching Middle School and High School Girls Programming During a Pandemic
By: Margo Long, OSU Extension Educator, 4-H Youth Development, Marion County During COVID-19 and the time of ultimate screen time fatigue, why would anyone want to add another virtual experience to the calendar? Because the mission to close the gender…
littleBits: Hands-on Prototyping and Learning with Modular Electronics
By: Meghan Thoreau, OSU Extension Educator in Community Development programmatic focus on STEM Education and Career Exploration. Teaming up with K-12 educators is essential to keeping Extension programs dynamic and relevant to what students are currently learning and accessing in…
The Physics of Video Games
By: Dr. Chris Orban, Assistant Professor at OSU Marion Campus Everyone loves video games and they can be a great way to help students think about how computers simulate the world. Increasingly, computer simulations are becoming part of the day-to-day…
