Queen of the Rosary Students Participate in Hour of Code

Queen of the Rosary School students participated in December's Hour of Code, an initiative from nonprofit group Code.org to introduce computer programming to students. Each year, Hour of Code coincides with Computer Science Education Week. The week found students at the Elk Grove school using computers and iPads, enabling them to take part in coding activities such as Lightbot, Minecraft and Kodable.

In addition to programming activities on the computer, second and third grade students created Binary Bracelets. Using a Binary Decoder Key that represented letters and colored beads, each student created a personalized bracelet by coding the first letter of their first name and first letter of their last name.

Seventh-grade students rotated through stations that included programming code on the computer; programming Ozobot, a small robot, to perform different actions or behaviors by using sequences of colors; and using an iPad app to drive a robotic ball called Sphero.

For more information about Queen of the Rosary School, visit www.qrschool.org. Accepting registrations for the 2018-2019 School Year.