Middle School
McKinley Institute of Technology (Redwood City)
- Students built Lego pipette mechanisms
- Students were fascinated by Layering and Density
Ralston Middle School (Belmont)
- Replicated McKinley study
- Similar observations
Christa McAuliffe School (Saratoga)
- Girls coded well-plate designs in Snap!
- All girls chose LHR; all boys chose Lego vehicles
High School
Design Tech High School (Redwood Shores)
- Two Fab Lab Intersession-weeks (15 hrs)
- First week, some created non-LHR robots
- Second week, most worked on LHR
- Some built variations (micro:bit); others designed improvements
Carlmont High School BioTech Institute
- We began study with micro:bit version
- We taught students MakeCode
- Aborted due to equipment reliability issues