Registration for School Year 2024-2025 opens on 8/27/2024

Please click on the following link to register:
https://evergreenptsa.org/Packet/CodingClubReg

Overview

Welcome to the EMS Coding Club! Here's why coding is very important for middle school students.

• Coding is the new literacy. Learning to code helps students understand how technology works and how it shapes our world.
• Coding prepares students for the future jobs market. Coding is a valuable skill that can open up many career opportunities in various fields, such as computer science, data science, engineering, design, and more.
• Coding develops problem-solving skills. Coding challenges students to break down complex problems into smaller and simpler steps, and to use trial and error, debugging, and testing to find solutions. 
• Coding is fun and engaging. Coding allows students to create their own projects, games, apps, animations, and more. Coding also lets students express their creativity and personality through code.

100+ students have participated in the EMS Coding Club in the last 2 years. This year, we plan to expand past coding and include algorithms and some data structures!

Logistics:

• No prior coding experience is required but if you have any, we can give you more advanced assignments.
• We will meet virtually every Wednesday 5pm to 6pm. We will meet a few times in person (including pizza parties).
• Please note that students will be required to bring their own device to participate. Students will need access to a Google Account.
• This club REQUIRES volunteers (2-3 hours/week) and Parent involvement of 10 min/week is critical.
• We would like ALL parents to volunteers a few times during the year (not every session) so that sessions always have at least one parent volunteer other the coach in each session.

For your specific questions, please contact codingclub@evergreenptsa.org or the club chair Kaushik Pushpavanam at kaushik@evergreenptsa.org.

Our Instructor/Coach will be Emily He emily@evergreenptsa.org

Information and Dates

• Information for Parents & Students:
  • Presentation Slides 
• Registration Deadline - 9/30/2024
• Club Start Date - 9/25/2023 at 5:00pm to 6:00pm
• Club Meeting - Every Wednesday 5:00pm to 6:00pm

Club Activities

What a typical club meeting will look like?

• Students will be given videos to watch and assignments to do ahead of every session.
• If we get enough volunteers, assignments will be graded.
• In session, we will pick a few students and have them show their work. Parents should ensure that student can log-in, install software, present their screen and have no online-meeting issues.
• Students will help those who could not solve previous week's assignments.
• We will introduce a new topic (different topics for basic vs advanced)
• Students will start work on next topic in class.
• 5 min Reflection

Competitions

This year, we will be encouraging and preparing students to participate in coding competitions. Students may compete as individuals or/and as a part of a team. Some competitions that we are looking at are:

American Computer Science League (ACSL)

Bebras Computing Challenge

Club Chair

Kaushik Pushpavanam