Robotic Badges for Girl Scouts

This three-day computer science (CS) robotics coding exploration targets three Girl Scouts (n.d.) Brownie (2nd/3rd grades) badges. For each badge, a 60-minute session follows the 5E instructional model, which incorporates various robots to provide learners with diverse coding experiences. Throughout the coding exploration, learners engaged with real-life robot applications and used different robots to complete coding challenges. This learning exploration concluded by having learners complete at least one robot coding challenge per session, tailored to their capability, and utilize their expressive language skills to describe and explain their designed artifacts, algorithms, and block-based codes. This coding exploration can be extended to support broader elementary-level CS instruction.