Girls Who Code @ UMN Session 1 Fall 2016-Spring 2017
Club Instructors: Dr. Lauren Mills, Dr. Chad Myers, Joe Roskopf
Client: Luthern Social Services MN and Minnesota Department of Health
Final Project: RefugeMN app now available in the google play store!
Session Schedule
Sept 7th - Info meeting
Sept 14th - Day 1! Intro to Girls Who Code
Sept 21th - Bravery and Computer Science Impact Project
Sept 28th - Identifying communites and project brainstorming
Oct 5th - CS Impact Project decision and
Spotlight: Andrew Kandels from Field Nation
Oct 12th - Visit Field Nation - permission slip required
Spotlight: PJ Vangay from University of MN
Oct 19th - Develop project timeline (Class is ON regardless of MEA)
Visit from Leah Baker Director of the Refugee Resettlement Program at Lutheran Social Services
Oct 26th - Codesters create a scene, introduction to variables.
Nov 2nd - Codesters create madlibs and intro to Scratch
Nov 9th - Introduction to conditionals
Saturday Nov 12 - Girls, Science and Technology at Science Museum of Minnesota
Girls Who Code Event
Nov 16th - Spotlight: Dr Bethany Klebano from go2market analytics
Nov 23rd - No Meeting (Thanksgiving)
Nov 30th - Intro to lists, review variables, conditionals and loops
Dec 7th - Intro to functions
Dec 14th - Review all topics, revist project last class before Winter holiday break
Dec 21st - No Meeting
Dec 28th - No Meeting
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Jan 4th - No Meeting
Jan 11th - Spotlight: CBS Dean Valery Forbes, PhD.; Welcome back- start Project Phase
Jan 18th - Spotlight: Robin Austin, School of Nursing; Intro to project planning
Jan 25th - Project subtasking in Trello
Feb 1st - Spotlight: Melissa Gardner, UMN professor; MVP design and create project backlog
Feb 8th - Spotlight: Carrie Puterbaugh at RBC wealth management
Feb 15th - Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Field Trip; Introduction to AppInventor
Feb 22 - Spotlight: Somayeh Dodge, UMN professor; Groups work on app parts
Mar 1st - Groups work on app parts
Mar 8th - Spotlight: Sauman Chu, UMN professor; Groups finish work on app parts
Mar 15th - Spotlight: Kelly Thomas, CSE Undergraduate Academic Advisor; Groups consolidate app parts into a single project
Mar 22 - Spotlight: Luiza Mendonça, PhD at UMN; Final Wednesday Club Session, symposium practice
Mar 25th - Final Project Symposium
Thanks to our session sponsors for their support!!