LibGuides: STEM: Explore STEM

April 22nd is International Girls in ICT Day!

Why not try coding and programming! Coding can be a great creative way to have fun while learning new things and exploring new ideas: problem solving, logic, imagination, communication skills, collaboration, brainstorming, multitasking and design!

Nasa CODE
CODE is a framework for the control and observation of resources, services, and applications. The technology supports the secure and scalable transmission of observed information to other programs, and it enables the secure execution of actions on remote computer systems.

Khan Academy
Learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more.

Moonhack
Moonhack is a free international event bringing together kids from across the world for a week of coding!

Women Who Code
We envision a world where women are proportionally represented as technical leaders, executives, founders, VCs, board members, and software engineers

Code Like a Girl
Code Like a Girl is a social enterprise providing girls and women with the confidence, tools, knowledge and support to enter, and flourish, in the world of coding!

Geek Girl Academy
Girl Geek Academy is a movement teaching one million women technology skills by 2025. We increase technical aspirations in young girls and women from ages five to 95 through coding, making, entrepreneurship, game development, startup skills and more. We partner with teachers, parents, corporate leaders and governments and we all work together to see women and girls succeed in tech.

Have you ever created a blog? Blogging can be a great platform for girls to demonstrate and improve their knowlege and skills!

WordPress
Create a blog and share your voice in minutes. WordPress.com makes it easy for you to start your own blog.

Blogger
Publish your passions your way. Whether you'd like to share your knowledge, experiences or the latest news, create a unique and beautiful blog for free.

Building your own mobile application empowers you to move from technology consumption - to technology creation! This can offer you the opportunity to create exciting solutions to achieve social impact for your community by using technology!

AppShed
AppShed Creator is an application designed for quick and easy app-building. It allows you to create HTML5 applications without any previous experience or knowledge in this field.

App Inventor 2
MIT App Inventor is an intuitive, visual programming environment that allows everyone to build fully functional apps for smartphones and tablets.

Live Code
LiveCode is an open-source platform for the development of native mobile, desktop and server games and applications LiveCode offers a visual workflow that allows users to develop apps and games live, and provides uniquely accessible natural language syntax.

Robotics provide girls with fantastic opportunities to experience 'building the future'!

Dash & Dot
Targeted at teaching creative problem solving and computational thinking, Dash helps students learn fundamental processes relevant for all 21st century skills. Students send commands to the robots to move them, light them up, and have them detect the world around them using 5 free coding applications available on iPad and Android tablets

Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi is a low cost, credit-card sized computer that plugs into a computer monitor or TV, and uses a standard keyboard and mouse. It is a capable little device that enables people of all ages to explore computing, and to learn how to program in languages like Scratch and Python

SPRK +
Sphero SPRK+ is a programmable robot ball designed to inspire creativity and curiosity through coding and play. With SPRK+, you can easily learn programming, complete hands-on STEM activities, and share your creations with the community.

We have Sphero SPRK+ and BB-8 robots in the CGSC Library for use in your STEM classes!

Finch Robot 2.0
The Finch is a programmable robot that brings computer science to life by providing students from kindergarten to college a hands-on representation of their code.

This Career Wheel is divided into 4 quadrants: Digital Design, Security, Specialties, Marketing/Consulting, Industry, Software, Hardware & Content.

Click on any role & there is a video behind it featuring someone who works in that role, talking about what their role entails.

What is Engineering?

Video sourced from UON Febe