Links
This page contains links to the online tools, videos and handouts used at our events. If you are interested in running a class and want copies of all class materials, please email us at contact@orcsgirls.org. Also please check out TechShopz in a Box for these and other cool workshop plans.
3D Printing
- Document: Presentation, Printing Handout
- Videos: Robohand, 3D Metal Printing, Printing a car, Shapeways
- Websites: Thingiverse, Tinkercad, BlocksCAD
- Materials: Access to 3D printer(s)
Computer Simulations for Science
- Documents: Presentation, Walk & Turn Handout, Epidemic Handout
- Websites: StarLogo Nova
Crowd Sourcing
- Documents: Presentation
- Websites: Penguin Watch, GlobalXplorer, Whales as Individuals, Zooniverse
Custom Maps
- Documents: Presentation
- Websites: Carto, Carto Animated Map Tutorial, Zebra Migration Data
- Data: Middle School Enrollment Data, Bird Tracking Data
Cyber Security Basics
- Documents: Presentation
- Videos: Asking people for their passwords
- Websites: Cyber Threat Map, Test your password, Steganography, Emoji Cryptography
- Challenges: True Key, Nova Cyber Lab, Desert Oasis, Cipher Crack the Code, Be Internet Awesome
Encryption
- Documents: Presentation, Worksheets
- Websites: Caesar cipher tool, Desert Oasis, Agnes Driscoll
- Video: Encryption (complete video)
Fun with the MicroBit
- Documents: Presentation
- Websites: MicroBit Information, MicroBit Coding, Microbit Project Ideas
- Materials: MicroBit, MicroBit Inventor Kit
Infographics
- Documents: Presentation
- Websites: Piktochart, Reliable data sources
Internet of Things
- Documents: Presentation, Firmware Handout
- Videos: What is the Internet of Things
- Websites: Particle Photon Examples, Particle Coding Environment (account needed), Web Page Generator
- Materials: Particle Photon (alternate source)
Introduction VR
- Documents: Presentation, Cardboard Handout, VR Scripting Handout
- Video: McGurk Effect (full video)
- Websites: 3D Drawing Pad, 3D Drawing Gallery, VR Javascript, CoSpaces
- Apps: Google Cardboard (iPhone - Android), CoSpaces (iPhone - Android)
- Hour Of Code: Pirate Plunder, Robot Rattle
- Materials: Google Cardboard
Introduction to Python
- Documents: Presentation, Python Cheat Sheets, Jupyter Notebooks
- Websites: Jupyter, ORCSGirls Jupyter Notebooks
Machine Learning
- Documents: Presentation, Jupyter Notebooks
- Videos: Machine Learning Recipes with Josh Gordon (not shown in class)
- Websites: ORCSGirls Jupyter Notebooks, Digit Classifier Tool, Drawing Completion Tool, Teachable Machine, Tensorflow Playground, Webcam Pacman (not shown in class)
Mobile Apps
- Documents: Presentation, Game Handout
- Website: TouchDevelop
Robots
- Documents: Presentation, Program Edison Handout
- Websites: Edison Programming Environment
- Videos: Robot back flip, Robot doing dishes
- Materials: Edison Robots
Smart Apps
- Documents: Presentation
- Websites: Thunkable, Thunkable App IOS, Thunkable App Android
Text Mining
- Documents: Presentation, Python Cheat Sheets, Jupyter Notebooks
- Websites: Jupyter, ORCSGirls Jupyter Notebooks, Harry Potter Chapter 13
You can code
- Documents: Presentation
- Video: What most schools don't teach
- Website: Blockly Games