This workshop is for public school library media specialists who must attend the training required to be eligible to receive the books and devices (Micro:Bit) provided as part of the combined efforts of the Arkansas Computer Science Initiative with R.I.S.E. Arkansas' mission of building a culture of reading in Arkansas. Public school libraries that serve students in any combination of grades K-8 are eligible to receive a Micro:Bit, which are small programmable computers, and a copy of Code Your Own Games!: 20 Games to Create with Scratch by Max Wainewright. Public school libraries that serve students in any combination of grades K-5 also will be eligible to receive a copy of Sasha Savvy Loves to Code by Sasha A. Alston. The full announcement can be found at https://goo.gl/6PgVdW.
Participants need to bring a laptop or chromebook.