Session Eleven

TrishZwei August 2, 2016

Work Day & Completing Our Projects

Session Starters

Homework Due:
QC#2 Report

Work Day

Today we’re going to work on our projects and get as much done on them as possible.

Homework Assignment:

Continue to improve and work on your projects. Prepare for final presentation on August 4th.
Your parents are welcome to attend our last session. I expect that the presentations and demonstrations will be short and won’t take up the whole afternoon. We’ll play with code cards if there’s extra time and we need to wait.

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