Mercer County students demonstrate block-based coding in DC Coders presentation to school board
Central and day-treatment students demonstrated projects built with code.org to the Mercer County Board of Education, with teachers and administrators highlighting programming skills, debugging, persistence and public-speaking gains from the curriculum.
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Adrian Thompson, who works with Central and Day Treatment programs, told the Mercer County Board of Education that the district has implemented a ‘‘DC Coders’’ curriculum using the code.org platform to introduce block-based coding to students across settings including day treatment. Thompson said the nationally used platform teaches sequencing, loops, conditionals and event-driven logic while creating an environment where students learn debugging and ‘‘frustration tolerance.’’
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