STEM Semester Workshop Information

​Scratch/LEGO Programming
Grades: 2-5
Dates TBD
Room #: TBD
Instructors:
Dr. Sam Thangiah
(sam.thangiah@sru.edu)
Dr. Abdullah Wahbeh

Scratch is a free programming language for creating your own interactive stories, games, and animations. Students will be introduced to basic concepts in Scratch programming including animation, sound, avatars and the programming concepts on using conditions and loops. One class will be on programming LEGO robots using sonar, light, and motors
3D Modeling Using SketchUp Tool
Grades: 6-8
Dates TBD
Room #: TBD
Instructors:
Dr. Raed Seetan
(raed.seetan@sru.edu)
Dr. Deborah Whitfield
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Google SketchUp is a free 3D modeling software for drawing, designing, and rendering 3D objects. SketchUp offers a user-friendly interface to create interior design and architectural models, by drawing lines and shapes, push and pull surfaces to turn an idea on paper into 3D printable model. Through a hands-on environment, students will learn the fundamentals of 3D modeling, and how to use SketchUp to create a simple 3D house. Then students will be guided to create their own 3D models they like.
Python Programming
Grades: 6-8
Dates TBD
Room #: TBD
Instructors:
Dr. Raed Seetan
(raed.seetan@sru.edu)

An introductory programming course where students learn and practice important programming skills such as problem decomposition and solving. Students will be introduced to basic programming concepts such as variables, selection, loops and functions. Students will write simple fun math Python programs such as guess the number program; make a simple calculator program; check if a number is odd or even program; find factors of number program, print all prime numbers in an interval, and many other Python programs.
Raspberry Pi Computer Programming
Grades: 9-12
April 14,21,28 and May 5
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Room #: ATS 230
Instructors:
Dr. Nitin Sukhija
(nitin.sukhija@sru.edu)
Dr. Bernie Zhou

This will introduce participants to the unexplored potential of the Raspberry Pi-the hardware, software and its applications. During the course of the workshop interesting open problems will be floated and the participants will be encouraged to think out-ofbox and come up with innovative solutions. The workshop will cover the following concepts: Setting up Raspberry PI, Shell Scripting, and Parallel programming (Multiprocessing) using Python Programming. Post workshop, each participant will have a sound exposure to Python programming and interfacing of Raspberry Pi.