50 grade-school students to participate in ‘Design Code Build’

Fresno State’s Lyles College of Engineering and the Computer History Museum will host Design Code Build with 50 students in grades six through eight from the Boys and Girls Club of Fresno County and Kerman Unified School District from 2 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 13, at Fresno State. “Design Code Build” engages students in hands-on science, technology, engineering, arts, math activities with a focus on problem-solving and innovation through the lens of computer science and history while allowing students to meet real tech professionals. “Introduction to Design Code  Build” will take place at 2 p.m. in the Grosse Industrial Technology Building, Room 160. Other activities will include a human-sized maze exercise that teaches the basic concepts of programming language development, introduction to programming” with raspberry Pi’s, an introduction to Geomatics Engineering with an interactive project called the augmented reality sandbox that simulates rain, followed by a brief human scanning activity with the Leica ScanStation P20 3D scanner. INFO: Hernan Maldonado at 559.284.0837.