We're Off and Running!



Students have spent the first three days of COSMOS learning the programming language Python.  We have 5 student mentors (John, Henry, Jeannie, Sam and Wendy) to help them throughout the activities and labs.  Today (Wednesday) students began working on their first project - "Saving the Penguins" - in which they implement clustering.  I'm very proud of all them and how they've handled the crash course on Python!  They hung in there and have learned a lot in the first three days.

Scavenger Hunt Ice breaker on Day 1

Scavenger Hunt Ice breaker on Day 1


View from our classroom


Photos during class and lab:










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