Physical Computing and Technical Career Education at Virginia Tech's Thinkabit Lab.
Joined May 2016
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Virginia Tech's Northern Virginia Thinkabit Lab retweeted
16 Oct 2023
On World Food Day, 11th and 12th grade @MeridianMstangs made over 4,000 meals to combat food insecurity locally. The Hand to Hunger student led club started by three 11th gr sts received an IB Global Youth Action Fund to inspire and influence change.
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Virginia Tech's Northern Virginia Thinkabit Lab retweeted
19 Sep 2023
THIS! ⬇️⬇️
A high school teacher explains why trying to “catch” students using AI was not going to work for her and what she did instead! #chatgpt
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Virginia Tech's Northern Virginia Thinkabit Lab retweeted
18 Sep 2023
🎶PROJECT IDEA💡
Combine your love of music🎵 and programming 💻with these fun micro:bit projects which not only help computational thinking but sound good too! Take it one step further & code your own favourite tunes🎶!
microbit.org/projects/make-i…
#microbit #coding #STEAM
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Our leader and leading supporter in Blacksburg is also Associate Dean of the College of Engineering, and Executive Director of our Center for Enhancement of Engineering Diversity, Dr. Bev Watford.
12 Apr 2023
And the Career Achievement Award goes to... Bev Watford! 🤩🎉 This award recognizes an individual who has made sustained, outstanding, and significant contributions to a career field. 👏
ALT Bevlee Watford
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Over 470 5th graders joined a 2nd pilot of our @AFCEA Engineer the Planet Hackathon from @OneRCPSchools, @FtBelvoirES, @FCPSSTEAM and @DoDEACrossroads in @pwcgov. Thanks to @AFCEABelvoir, @AFCEARockbridge, @AFCEAQP our @VTmetroDC #microbit provider @FCLEdu, and all our sponsors.
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Our wonderful sponsors:
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Virginia Tech's Northern Virginia Thinkabit Lab retweeted
3 Oct 2022
The 🆕 #microbit Python Editor is designed to help students who are learning to code using a text-based language. It's full of tools to help you spend 👉more time teaching👈, from modelling programming tasks to testing and developing code 🙌
#edtechteachers #csteachers #coding
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This is great recognition of our long-term collaboration using microcontrollers in 5th and 6th grade classrooms, leading to a fascinating AFCEA pilot project.
26 Apr 2022
We're honored & happy to receive the Exceptional Contribution to STEM Education Award 2022 in Baltimore tonight @jegenrieder @NancyHRowland @AFCEABelvoir @dodeagrants @FtBelvoirES
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Virginia Tech's Northern Virginia Thinkabit Lab retweeted
25 Apr 2022
Interested in Data Science?
You are cordially invited to attend an important webinar this Thursday, April 28, 5:00-6:00pm. Open to math & CS curriculum leaders, school admins and HS math or CS teachers.
Please register in advance for this meeting:
doe-virginia-gov.zoom.us/mee…
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Be sure to register for this free @VaEdStrategies
April 28 program featuring technical (STEM) education and workforce leaders from
the @VAChamber, @Amazon, @NASASTEM, @USChamber, @NASA, and @VTmetroDC/@VTCEED/@Thinkabit_Lab/ @VTEngineering.
18 Apr 2022
Join us for a panel discussion April 28 that features business and educational leaders/experts to discuss ideas and strategies to help prepare students for high demand STEM Careers! #xchangenet
Visit our website to register and learn about our speakers: virginiaedstrategies.org/the…
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Virginia Tech's Northern Virginia Thinkabit Lab retweeted
18 Apr 2022
Join us for a panel discussion April 28 that features business and educational leaders/experts to discuss ideas and strategies to help prepare students for high demand STEM Careers! #xchangenet
Visit our website to register and learn about our speakers: virginiaedstrategies.org/the…
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Virginia Tech's Northern Virginia Thinkabit Lab retweeted
7 Apr 2022
Virginia Tech's Reading Specialist Degree. Online courses, 5 semesters. Practical, Affordable. New faculty! New courses! Info session on April 9 from 11:00-12:00pm. Register here: bit.ly/3Iajxad
Contact hamesmer@vt.edu with any questions!
#VirginiaTech
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As cities change, more people use communal bikes & scooters — but those people are relatively unprotected on the road. To improve road safety, we’re working with @commsignia & @spokesafety to add #CV2X technology into micro mobility vehicles. Learn more: bit.ly/3NINy4E
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Virginia Tech's Northern Virginia Thinkabit Lab retweeted
24 Mar 2022
Kids Lab coders in 4th & 5th grade constructed programs for their microbits. Using computer science, they set up algorithms for games and more! @dodeagrants @FtBelvoirES @FCPSSTEAM
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Virginia Tech's Northern Virginia Thinkabit Lab retweeted
17 Mar 2022
Today our Young Scholars participated in a fantastic field trip to the @Qualcomm@Thinkabit_Lab! Amazing lessons, resources, and inspiring hands on activities using C programming and robotics.
@VT_ThinkabitLab @QualcommforGood @FCPSSTEAM @FCPSScience @fcpsnews
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Micro:bits in the science classroom.
14 Mar 2022
Ss @microbit_edu moisture sensors all set up and functioning perfectly! All set to add on automated water pumps next week. Great task for exploring conditional coding and real world data. 🌿 #microbit #stemeducation #primarystem #edtech
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Virginia Tech's Northern Virginia Thinkabit Lab retweeted
16 Feb 2022
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Virginia Tech's Northern Virginia Thinkabit Lab retweeted
19 Jan 2022
Mission Accomplished: Belvoir students participate in hackathon insidenova.com/headlines/mis… via @insidenova @dodeagrants @FtBelvoirES @FCPSSTEAM @AFCEABelvoir
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This summer’s Technology and Engineering Educators’ annual meeting and professional learning conference is in Winchester.
15 Jan 2022
@VA_TechEd Winter Board of Directors' meeting. Productive planning to help Technology and Engineering teachers in Virginia. @VirginiaACTE @childengineer @VirginiaCTE
A great pilot project with #microbit microcontrollers for the entire 5th grade.
16 Dec 2021
5th graders are problem-solving like computer scientists & participating in "Escape the Planet," a coding challenge. @AFCEABelvoir @FtBelvoirES @FCPSSTEAM @dodeagrants @NancyHRowland
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