Internet of Things Farm: Introducing Kids to Data Science
summary
A youth program pairs cooking with coding and doubles down on social, peer-led learning to boost girls in CS, producing 62% girls at a week-long Barbacoa camp and a teen group of nine girls and three boys. Projects use Raspberry Pi, Intel Edison, Arduinos, ThingSpeak and an electric imp (works about 60% first try) to build a tweeting windmill and moisture-sensor irrigation prototype that tweets when soil drops below 92% and rises above 94%. A planned farm install is delayed by a 60,000-gallon construction runoff.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00IoT Farm introduction
- 4:19Gender disparity in tech
- 9:22Why girls avoid CS
- 14:15Data science with hummus
- 17:45Teen user group
- 19:09Water conservation IoT
- 23:45Fixing bias with captions
- 26:55Barbacoa camp success
- 28:17Beginner IoT devices
- 35:44Kids exploring tech
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