Ridgetown District High School students are back after their trip to a recent IT conference.
RDHS Coding Club member Austin Gagnier says their club was chosen to present at the Bring IT, Together Conference in Niagara Falls earlier this month.
“Our coding club has been working on various coding projects over the past few years, and we wanted to expand our horizons. So we applied to the conference, and we were accepted to speak about how to use coding technology and incorporate them into teaching”, explains Gagnier.
Teachers from across the country learned about how to code robots, and how to incorporate coding into teaching through their presentation Coaching Coding.
Gagnier says it was a great experience for the club.
“It was really awesome to be there. We learned a lot from the first session we went to about robotics, which is going to help us expand what our club is doing”, Gagnier says.
He presented with fellow club member Ian Lawton.
“Our session went really well. We had 15 teachers and adults who all had very positive feedback for us”, says Gagnier.
Gagnier and Lawton are working on their proposal for next year’s conference.
