In honor of ScratchJr's 10th birthday, we are sharing out quick activities that you can do at home or in the classroom! Today's activity will show you how to bring in everyday objects or images to ScratchJr using the paint editor!
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ScratchJr Connect: connect.scratchjr.org/new-years-card/
In-Person Bday Party Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
Project Example: youtube.com/watch?v=a5mTZX…
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In-Person Bday Party Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
Project Example: youtube.com/watch?v=a5mTZX…
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This year is ScratchJr's 10th birthday, and we’d like to celebrate with you!
Please join us on September 16th from 4-6 PM for a virtual celebration with the DevTech team. Join to hear about 10 years worth of research, design and development. To Register: bit.ly/ScratchJr10th
Please join us on September 16th from 4-6 PM for a virtual celebration with the DevTech team. Join to hear about 10 years worth of research, design and development. To Register: bit.ly/ScratchJr10th
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With school on the way, our Coding Playground Summer Camp has officially wrapped up, but what an amazing two weeks it was! Our campers dove into the world of Coding and Robotics, exploring and playing with ScratchJr and the KIBO Robot. We can’t wait to do it all again next year!
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The Scratch Conference is coming up! On July 24th, two of DevTech's own, Francisca Carocca P. and Jessica Blake-West, will be presenting their work with ScratchJr.
Click the link to register:
events.ringcentral.com/.../scratch...…
Click the link to register:
events.ringcentral.com/.../scratch...…
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We are thrilled to announce that the Coding as Another Language Curriculum for ScratchJr is now available in Portuguese (Portugal). You can see the Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade curriculum here -->
sites.bc.edu/codingasanothe…
sites.bc.edu/codingasanothe…
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We were thrilled to join the Scratch Foundation last week to meet and present to their Scratch Ecosystem partners! The group includes organizations from Vietnam, India, Brazil, Kenya, and more!
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We're thrilled to announce the Coding Playgrounds Summer Camp, a program designed for children entering K-2. If your child is curious about programming and robotics, this is the perfect opportunity for them!
Learn more: sites.bc.edu/.../learn.../f…
Register: forms.gle/VcRMNnoHsKJckh…
Learn more: sites.bc.edu/.../learn.../f…
Register: forms.gle/VcRMNnoHsKJckh…
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The DevTech Research Group had the pleasure last week of hosting a delegation from the school, Colegio Hebreo Maguen David, all the way from Mexico City!
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The DevTech group is thrilled that the Coding as Another Language for ScratchJr curriculum for kindergarten is now available in Turkish! Thank you, Dr. Şermin Metin and Dr. Mehmet Başaran, for all your help on this project.
Click here to access:
sites.bc.edu/codingasanothe…
Click here to access:
sites.bc.edu/codingasanothe…
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Go check out Prof. Marina Bers' new article, "El desarrollo de Scratch-Jr: el aprendizaje de programación en primera infancia como nueva alfabetización (The development of Scratch-Jr: programming learning in early childhood as a new literacy) Read here -> revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/vesc…
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Exciting news! We're thrilled to be a part of the upcoming CreatedBy Festival at the Children's Museum this Sunday 10/22. Swing by the CreatedBy Tots area for some coding fun with @ScratchJr #CreatedByFestival #CodingForKids
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Join the DevTech Research Group this Saturday 10/14 @museumofscience Boston for Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month for fun science & cultural offerings in English & Spanish! Check out their website for tickets and details: mos.org/visit/admission
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This week DevTech hosted 20 educators from Poppins Educare Inc. from Japan for a Coding in Early Childhood Professional Development workshop exploring the techn, @KIBO & @ScratchJr, and pedagogies developed by the DevTech Research Group directed by Prof. Marina Bers.
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Today the Coding Playgrounds Summer Series 2023 concluded with the Session 2: KIBO Project Showcase! Throughout the week campers worked with KIBO to create a Hokey Pokey dance program and construct characters to dance on their robot to share with their families! @KinderLabRobot
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Today was the final day of Session 1: @ScratchJr of the Coding Playgrounds Summer Series. We hosted a Project Showcase for the families of our campers to see the projects they created this week based on #Stellaluna by Janell Cannon.
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Today kicked off the 2023 Coding Playgrounds Summer Series with Session 1: @ScratchJr. During this session campers will learn all about @ScratchJr and will use it to re-tell the story of #Stellaluna by Janell Cannon!
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Jess Blake-West, DevTech's @ScratchJr Learning Experience Designer, hosted 2 sessions @ today's #ScratchConference 2023: one ignite talk, introducing DevTech's online PD TeachCAL, & one hands-on workshop titled The One Sentence Story: How collaborative ScratchJr facilitates SEL
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Today @marinabers and Jessica Blake-West of the DevTech Research Group will be presenting at the #ScratchConference 2023! We hope to see you there!
@ScratchJr @scratch
@ScratchJr @scratch
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Nearly ten years after the initial launch of @ScratchJr in 2014, Jessica Blake-West & @MarinaBers of DevTech published “ScratchJr design in practice: Low floor, high ceiling” in the International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction. To read visit: sites.bc.edu/devtech/public…
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Only 2 more weeks until DevTech kicks off their first ever Coding Playgrounds Summer Series at @BostonCollege! The program invites children interested in programming and robotics over summer vacation to explore @ScratchJr and KIBO. sites.bc.edu/devtech/learn-…
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Last Thursday and Friday, the DevTech Research Group directed by @marinabers hosted their first Beyond Coding Professional Development Workshop at @BostonCollege. We are so thankful to these professionals and educators for their time!
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DevTech hosted their 1st Beyond Coding Professional Development Workshop today at @BostonCollege. The workshop runs for 2 days, and introduces educators from around the world to methods for integrating human values into the classroom through programming @marinabers
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Jess Blake-West, DevTech's @ScratchJr Learning Experience Designer, & Chris Garrity, @scratch Foundation's ScratchJr Product Manager, presented: The Building Blocks of Creativity: Coding in Early Childhood with ScratchJr, at the ISTE conference in Philadelphia today!#ISTELive23
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Thank you to our partners in Poland with the @CyfrowyD who visited DevTech at @BostonCollege this month!
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Today DevTech participated in the symposium “Interactive tools for distributed community building & collaboration in maker education”. DevTech shared ScratchJr Connect, our curated database for ScratchJr educator resources. connect.scratchjr.org #ISLS2023
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Today the DevTech Team facilitated a symposium “Coding as Another Language: An International Comparative Study of Learning Computer Science & Computational Thinking in Kindergarten” at the @ISLS Conference @marinabers @tess_levinson @ Jessica Blake-West
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Our international partners in Nepal with @smartcheli shared their experience implementing Coding as Another Language (CAL)- @ScratchJr with the DevTech Research Group directed by @marinabers :
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Shout out to all the Facilitators for such a successful Scratch Day 2023, including DevTech, @scratch team, @Kinderlab and all the partnering organizations present!
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Join the DevTech Research Group for the Coding Playgrounds Summer Series! This in person half day camp will introduce children to robotics, programming, & STEAM using DevTech's tech: ScratchJr (Session 1: ScratchJr July 24 to July 28) & KIBO (Session 2: KIBO July 31-Aug 4)!
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Happy Scratch Day! Thank you to all who visited and helped make this event happen!! @scratch @ScratchJr @KinderLabRobot @marinabers
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The DevTech Research Group directed by @marinabers met today for a Team Building Retreat as we conclude our Spring Semester and first year at @BostonCollege! @ScratchJr @KinderLabRobot
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Last week two educator teams visited DevTech for Professional Development: @HHCTweets Horizons for Homeless Children & @ulstl Urban League St. Louis HeadStart! Thank you to these professionals for their time & their work with coding and young children! @ScratchJr @KinderLabRobot
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Congrats to Sarah Ryan, winner of the Developmental Technologies Track for the 1st ever Make-a-Thon hosted by @bc_make! Sarah designed an assistive technology to promote life skills education inspired by the #BCCampusSchool! Thank you to all who participated
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Let the Making begin!! @BostonCollege @bc_make just kicked off the first ever 24 hr Make-a-Thon featuring a Developmental Technologies track sponsored by the DevTech Research Group!
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The Devtech Research Group just announced two Professional Development opportunities: Coding as Another Language – ScratchJr (June 23rd, 8:30-12:30 pm) and Beyond Coding (June 29th and 30th, 9:30-4:00 pm). To register or learn more check out our website or scan below:
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Calling all Makers!! DevTech will be partnering with @bc_make for @BostonCollege's first Make-a-Thon Saturday April 15th to Sunday April 16th! To learn more scan the QR code below!
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@bclynchschool Augustus Long Professor of Education @marinabers brings Computational Thinking to children's television with Work It Out Wombats! @WombatsPBS @GBH
bc.edu/content/bc-web…
bc.edu/content/bc-web…
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Join the MIT Press for a book club event with @marinabers, follow this link to register:
washingtondc.alumclub.mit.edu/s/1314/bp19/in…
washingtondc.alumclub.mit.edu/s/1314/bp19/in…
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Explore DevTech's technologies, ScratchJr and KIBO Robotics, at the @BosChildMuseum on Thursday 2/23 and Friday 2/24 for National Engineers Week!! See you there!
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Yesterday DevTech was honored to welcome Rabbi Sergio Bergman, President of the @WUPJudaism, to speak at @BostonCollege
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Happy Hanukkah from DevTech and MedaTech🕎! Check out this video of MedaTech Celebrating Hanukkah with KIBO, complete with 8 blue KIBOs for the menorah candles and one green for the shamash! youtu.be/EtqN1qGdU6c
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Last week the DevTech team visited Boston College's makerspace, the Hatchery, for 3D printer training! Thank you to the Hatchery Team for having us! What should we make next? #makerspace #STEMeducation
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Check out this video of workshop participants in Israel playing with the @KinderLabRobot KIBO robot! workshop was conducted by @marinabers at the @madajerusalem
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This past week @marinabers traveled to Israel participate in Make It Open Consortium, Make-Education Week, and the FabLab Conferenced hosted by @madajerusalem and conducted workshops with @ScratchJr and KIBO @KinderLabRobot
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Thank you to everyone who visited our Open House last Thursday 10/6! We had so much fun sharing our new space and our technologies with the BC community!
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Join us for our first Open House at @BostonCollege and explore our new early childhood makerspace! Children are welcome!
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Calling all Early Childhood Educators looking to incorporate computer science, computational thinking, and robotics in your classroom, check out our upcoming Professional Development Workshop, register here: bit.ly/3Qf1mUC
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@BostonCollege welcomes Prof. Marina Bers to the Lynch School of Education and Human Development
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The DevTech Research Group has moved to the Lynch School of Education @BostonCollege! To learn more check out our new website:
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Our ScratchJr educator, Madeline Nievera, is walking us through how she would take this ScratchJr project from #ScratchJr2Scratch ! Here’s the project if you want to follow along or create your own! #ScratchConference
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How do you know if a child is ready to transition from #ScratchJr2Scratch? It’s about ScratchJr mastery, plus some other developmental skills. #ScratchConference
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Happy Lunar New Year from DevTech Research Group! youtube.com/watch?v=YkoWjR…
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KIBO has made it through customs! Check out our research partner, @RosenbergKima from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, with KIBO! And see KIBO getting to know some new friends: youtube.com/watch?v=YBKSbm…. We're so excited to start our CAL project in Israel this month!
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Happy Diwali from the DevTech Research Group! Enjoy this ScratchJr project, Lights Around the World: Diwali youtu.be/GGqdrqo9Fr4 via @YouTube #Diwali #ScratchJr #edtech
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The recording of our ScratchJr Virtual Event is now live! youtube.com/watch?v=8DHLOR…
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Prof. Marina Bers and the DevTech Research Group at Tufts University invite you to join a free ScratchJr virtual event on March 30th from 6-7 PM EST! To register, follow this link: bit.ly/sjreventregist…
#globaltuftsmonth #scratchjr
#globaltuftsmonth #scratchjr
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Check out the 2nd edition of Marina Bers’ book, Coding as a Playground. Featuring new case studies, vignettes, and projects, this edition dives further into how to engage children with computer programming in a playful way!
tinyurl.com/CodingasaPlayg…
tinyurl.com/CodingasaPlayg…
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Each curriculum unit can be adapted and used in any formal or informal learning settings around the world. To provide guidance in implementation of the curricula units, we’ve recorded a webinar for your viewing.
youtu.be/hNATFxUOHdA
youtu.be/hNATFxUOHdA
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Join @AASully this Monday 4/13 @ 6:30 PM EST for strategies, tools, and hands-on activities that can be easily implemented at home to inspire and engage the next generation of scientists and engineers during their foundational #earlychildhood years! bit.ly/ELNAmandaSulli…
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY: Join DevTech to learn about using KIBO and ScratchJr in your learning setting. Experience hands-on play with the coding tools, and meet other experienced educators and administrators through our summer professional development workshop!
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Come play with #KIBOrobot and #ScratchJr at the #museumofscience to help us celebrate #CSedweek! We will be here until 4pm playing with robotics and programming! #codinginearlychildhood
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Thank you @scratch for having @marinabers talk about the impact of @ScratchJr at the Scratch Foundation Benefit last night!
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"Some biological techniques are getting cheaper and cheaper. That iPhone will only last a few years, but this centrifuge will be fun for 20" -@topeeters @WellesleyHCI #globalbiosummit
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How can we get past the perception that biology requires expensive tools and start conversations where biology leverages cultural expertise and knowledge, like cooking and fermenting?" -@CorinneTakara @WellesleyHCI #globalbiosummit
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"A challenge for getting high schoolers my age into biotech and genetic engineering is access to lab space and materials. What I'm dealing with is, how do I get teams together for competitions and how can I get more labs and makerspaces in my area?" -@PatriciaRea20
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Very excited for the Learning & Education panel facilitated by @oshaer @WellesleyHCI #globalbiosummit
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So excited to be here with @WellesleyHCI to share #CRISPEE with the inspiring folks at the #globalbiosummit, including friends @justicetoshiba @katyaskit @oshaer #communitybio
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Congratulations to @EmilyRelkin and @marinabers for their book chapter in #STEM in #ECE - check out the link below for a preview!
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Congratulations to our research partner Norfolk Public Schools for receiving the MCEC Pete Taylor Partnership of Excellence award! @TuftsUniversity is excited to continue our collaboration this year introducing #CSeducation in #EarlyChildhood! #MCECNTS2019 #ecechat #ectech
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We had a great KIBO robotics session this morning at the #MCECNTS2019 conference! Thank you to the Norfolk public school educators for sharing your knowledge and experience!
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Day 1 + 2 of #InfyPathfinders was a success! We are so inspired by these incredibly dedicated teachers from all around the country who are learning about coding with #KIBO and #ScratchJr! We can’t wait for the rest of the week!
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Thank you to all the early childhood practitioners who attended our #KIBO Professional Development Workshop - you guys were all great!
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Course instructors @jaredmatas and @EmilyRelkin are at @KinderLabRobot getting ready to lead Pathfinders @InfyFoundation next week! Are YOU ready?!
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A wonderful two days at our #ScratchJr Professional Development Workshop!! Now onto #KIBO for the next two days!
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Spots still open for the DevTech Summer PD! Connect with amazing educators, play with coding tools for K-2nd grade, and master beginner and advanced concepts of #KIBO and #ScratchJr. Join PD leaders @ALStrawhacker, @Madhumitagovind , and @marinabers this July!
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We are so grateful that our Director and Chair @marinabers, and EP Children's School Director Hanna Gebretensae were able to share our work with @KatherineClark and @SpeakerPelosi! Our students loved meeting you!
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Congratulations to DevTech student @Madhumitagovind who successfully defended her thesis on family-oriented programming yesterday! We are so proud of you and lucky to have you on the DevTech team!
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Congratulations to all of our amazing DevTech students who participated in the 26th annual Fred Rothbaum Student Presentation Day! @TuftsASEgrad @ALStrawhacker @EmilyRelkin @Madhumitagovind
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Thanks to everyone who came to the Mix and Match Event to learn about adding Child Study as a major or minor! Our panelists discussed career opportunities, benefits of a Child Study degree, and the intersection of technology and Child Study.
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DevTech members guest teaching a Tufts undergraduate class on "Engineering Design and Making in Early Childhood":
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We had a blast training the incredible @norfolkpublicschool teachers on KIBO robotics and Coding as Literacy! We cannot wait for the teachers to bring it to their classrooms!
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DevTech member @ALStrawhacker 's TedX talk on "why every 6 year old needs to learn bioengineering."
youtube.com/watch?v=sqBwfv…
youtube.com/watch?v=sqBwfv…
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Looking for a summer camp that is both educational and fun? The DevTech Research Group will be running several exciting half-day camps during the summer of 2019! Our camps are open to children entering K-3rd grade. Spots are limited, so sign up soon!
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Need a fun Veteran's Day activity for kids ages 6-8? Stop by the @BosChildMuseum from 11am-1pm on November 12th to participate in our bioengineering educational study!
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We had a blast @HUBweek as a part of the Robot Block Party! Many thanks to everyone who stopped by. We had a great time with KIBO and @ScratchJr with coders of all ages!
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Today we hosted a group of Norwegian Kindergarten teachers, led by @alexruthmann! We loved sharing KIBO and ScratchJr with them and hearing about their work on DigiSus - a project designing aesthetic interaction rooms for Kindergarteners!
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