Doane Academy’s Lower School STEAM teacher, Susie Kissinger, has been chosen to participate in code.org’s Computer Science Connections Pilot.
As an experienced classroom teacher, her participation will help them to develop curricula that integrate computer science into other subject areas. Kissinger will inform the direction of lessons and have a direct impact on the curriculum that will be used by millions of students. Kissinger was also invited to work as a consultant of teachers for the Eek! program that she piloted with Doane’s current fifth-grade STEAM class last summer.
Kissinger was a part of the inaugural cohort of the EEK! (Engineering Engagement Kit) Curriculum Development Advisory Workshop. The EEK! program is intended to expose children and their families to the interesting, exciting problems that engineers get to work on. The workshop brought together a small group of teachers to help develop ways to integrate EKK! into classrooms.
After Kissinger participated in the workshop, Doane was selected by the National Science Foundation - Engineering Research Center in Cellular Metamaterials, a group that partners with, among others, Boston University, Columbia University, and Harvard Medical School, to become one of just five schools to run their pilot “EEK! In Schools’’ program.
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