Inside many seemingly ordinary classrooms throughout Goshen County, teachers and students are making extraordinary strides in the computer science realm. Southeast High School is no exception.
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YODER – Inside many seemingly ordinary classrooms throughout Goshen County, teachers and students are making extraordinary strides in the computer science realm. Southeast High School is no exception.
“In order to be competitive in the job market, knowing how a computer works and not just knowing how to work a computer, is important,” teacher Craig Leithead said.
Last week, his class completed various puzzles and games in the accelerated coding program on non-profit website, Code.org. Using concepts learned from the website and in class, students are responsible for either developing a website or creating an app – an application, or computer program, usually designed to run on a mobile device such as a phone or tablet – as their final project.
“All of it is their choice,” Leithead explained. “It’s based on a certain rubric, (and) their choice of what they create.”
This is Leithead’s first year teaching computer science and applications at Southeast, and the first time these courses have been offered at the school. Leithead said students “absolutely” seemed to be engaged in the subject matter.