John Hannan, associate department head of the Penn State Department of Computer Science and Engineering and camp director, was on hand to assist the camp participants with programming their robots.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering holds Girls Coding the Future with Robots camp
7/25/2018
Only 24 percent of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) jobs are held by women, and engineering is specifically a career underrepresented by females. To encourage more girls to explore engineering, Penn State’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering hosted a five-day camp, called Girls Coding the Future with Robots, for girls in grades 7–9 to introduce them to coding through the use of robots — both virtual and physical. Camp participants learned the fundamentals of computer programming and also about opportunities and careers available in computer science and engineering.
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