ORCSGirls Junior

Classes are free. Please note all times are in Eastern Time.

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About the program

The Junior program is directed towards girls, genderqueer, and non-binary students in grades 2-4 with the goal of extending ORCSGirls' age range through classes and camps. It is created and run by ORCSGirls volunteer Katie Bates!

I'm super excited to see what you all create! <3

Classes

September 27 - Photo Editing

Virtual class

10am to noon - Eastern Time.

Learn how to create awesome pictures and cool art projects using photo editing software. Curious about what you can do with colors, layers, contrast, saturation, smart selection tools and much more to create that perfect picture. Unleash your creativity, we cannot wait to see what you create.

October 18 - Machine Learning

Virtual class

10am to noon - Eastern Time.

All around us tools are getting smarter from voice recognition to finding faces in pictures thanks to machine learning. Wonder how this works? In this class students will learn about the basics of machine learning, and gain some hands-on experience by running a machine learning example in Python.

November 22 - Encryption

Virtual class

10am to noon - Eastern Time.

Whether it is your teachers test questions or your parents credit card number, this information must be privacy protected. During this workshop, the students will learn how information is protected online. Throughout the workshop students will work on puzzles, encryption and code breaking. At the end of the lesson students will see if they can figure out encrypted information, i.e. Can they crack the code? Lets see who can succeed in protecting their information!

December 20 - Building Voice Apps with Voiceflow

Virtual class

10am to noon - Eastern Time.

Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant are very popular technologies allowing you to interact with technology by just talking. What makes those technologies work? The answer is Artificial Intelligence-powered software, like apps! You don’t need to work for Amazon or Google to build apps for Alexa and Google Assistant. Anyone can write apps! In this workshop, students will learn how to build their own voice apps using the Voiceflow (www.voiceflow.com) free platform.

Past events

2025

Artificial Intelligence Camp - June

2024

Scratch Camp - July

Robot Day Camp - June

2023

Virtual Reality Camp - July

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