Girls Who . . . Do Scratch a First Round with the Essence Kernel

Abstract

Abstract-"Girls who…" is an education system belonging to the French national program "Accompanying in Science and Technology in the Primary School" (ASTEP). "Girls who…" is a girl network that develops and maintains an facility called the factory, addressing a double goal: setting an example of science performed by women and foster science and technology in elementary schools. Scratch is an open-source environment for multimedia creation intended to young people from 8 to 16 years old. The factory hosts Scratch learning sequences, designed and taught by "girls who…" Essence yields an actionable kernel of seven alphas, each of them going through several states of growing health. Alphas assessment let see a system from different viewpoints: opportunity, stakeholder, requirement, software system, work, team and way-of-working. It gave us a clear vision of the project state and raised critical weaknesses of the facility.

A Methodological Approach to the Teaching STEM Skills in Latin America through Educational Robotics for School Teachers

“…Before starting the workshops, instructional material was developed on how to enroll or register on virtual platforms such as Scratch [77] and Tinkercard, since there were schoolteachers who did not have much contact with technology. Moreover, as a way to approach the task, the Flipgrid platform enabled them to make a short video to introduce themselves and their interest in doing the workshops.…”