Pullout IT Program for Gifted secondary school students
Objectives
- To equip students with apps design and programming knowledge.
- To nurture students’ high order thinking skills and computational thinking competency.
- To encourage students to think creatively and innovatively.
Project Outline
Mode of implementation
- Extra-curricular activities.
Target
- Students with interests in programming and technology innovations.
Details
- 4 elite students were selected to attend EDB pullout program.
- School teacher taught interested students App Inventor and Arduino as interest class with these 4 students as helpers.
- Students were introduced with Rasperry Pi and web programming knowledge.
- Students were encouraged to create their own smart home device by using the knowledge they learnt.
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Photos of the project
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Students are testing their arduino car and app.
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Teacher is teaching the use of sensors.
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Students are taking video to introduce their work.
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Students are resembling their raspberry Pi computer.
Mr Chan is resembling his raspberry Pi computer.
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Student is installing operating system for his Raspberry Pi computer.
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