The STEMcoding Project began in 2017 with the launch of a youtube channel featuring coding tutorials on the physics of classic video games. Since then the content has grown and during the pandemic we redesigned nearly all of our activities to give students instant feedback on their codes rather than relying heavily on the instructor to troubleshoot. The pandemic also inspired us to create our own object tracking code that works through the browser on video data so students can perform simple experiments at home and analyze them. Both the object tracker and the instant feedback take advantage of javascript and a library called p5.js. I will also briefly describe coding activities that we designed for 9th grade physical science that also work well in college non-major classes. Many of these activities appear on the PICUP site (compadre.org/PICUP)

Reinventing the STEMcoding Project through the Pandemic

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The STEMcoding Object Tracker

The STEMcoding project launched in 2017 with a series of "physics of video games" activities designed for high school physics and physical science. Many of these activities are described on the STEMcoding YouTube channel (http://youtube.com/c/STEMcoding) and we have trained dozens of teachers through various workshops. In 2020 these resources became a lifeline for many of these teachers who needed to find solutions for distance and hybrid learning. And over summer 2020 we redesigned nearly all of our activities with this in mind. This talk provides and overview of how 2020 has shaped the STEMcoding project.

The STEMcoding Approach to Distance Learning

Most smartphones when placed in a simple $10 plastic viewer become incredibly capable devices for providing virtual reality (VR) experiences. Unfortunately, the learning curve is steep for creating smartphone-based VR content for physics using various software platforms. The Ohio State University led BuckeyeVR group created two free smartphone apps to help teachers create and deliver 3D content using student’s smartphones. Importantly these apps produce stereoscopic 3D content so that the visualization provides the viewer with a sense of depth perception. In this talk I will share the BuckeyeVR electric field app which provides VR views of electric field configurations. I will also describe the BuckeyeVR plotter that allows students and teachers to define and view vector fields, curves and surfaces. I will also briefly describe some of the education research we have done using these visualizations at Ohio State.

Smartphone-based Virtual Reality for physics with BuckeyeVR

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Reinventing the STEMcoding Project through the Pandemic

The STEMcoding Object Tracker

The STEMcoding Approach to Distance Learning

Smartphone-based Virtual Reality for physics with BuckeyeVR

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