Girls Build Apps at Techie Camp

“Bacon will come into your life!”

Under Principal Melissa Drury, Summit Road Elementary has been providing abundant STEM opportunities for their young students. This week in particular, they host an app development camp for 3rd and 4th grade girls. Two students explain why the dog on their phone seems to know what I’ll have for lunch.

“It’s called an animal fortune teller; we’re not done with it yet.”

The designers, Nyomie and Cydney, don’t rest on their laurels; they still have bugs to iron out. It’s goofy, but they are all business. In a few months, they will enter the 4th grade.

This summer program is not an outlier. Summit Road consistently brings exciting and engaging programs to the elementary level in all aspects of STEM, especially computer science and coding. Neighboring eSTEM High School also contributes to the tech culture at Summit. Computer science and coding skills give way to an impressive robotics program at eSTEM. High schoolers shared their expertise last year through a partnership with Microsoft.

“Microsoft at Easton provided the software, and they trained the high school kids,” says Principal Drury, “and then the high school kids came back and worked with our kids during their recess.” Elementary students gave up their recess, one day a week, to code.

Read more at the Ohio STEM Learning Network