Cross-Grade Coders: Empowering Students in Mentorship and Design Thinking
Part of ISTELive 26Presented by Colleen Roberts
Tuesday 30 June 2026·12:30 pm
This presentation showcases a cross-grade mentorship model where 5th graders become curriculum designers by researching a Kindergarten standard and applying design thinking to build teaching mazes for Indi Bots. 5th Graders design, code, and debug differentiated robot maps, integrating Computer Science with core content through authentic design and testing.
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