On June 1st, last Friday, we were fortunate to have a guest speaker from the DIGITS Project. DIGITS is a STEM education program that pairs STEM professionals--individuals who work in science, technology, engineering and math-based companies--with sixth grade classes throughout the state to increase students' interest in math and science subjects and careers. Our speaker, Sandra Kogan, works for IBM as a software design engineer. She used a loaf of bread, butter and a knife (roll of paper towels, container and a plastic knife) to show us the importance of being able to translate an activity into computer instructions so that an activity can be performed correctly. Additionally, we learned what her interests were in middle school and how she ended up working at IBM. One activity we did was to categorize different jobs into four major categories: engineering, life sciences, computers/software/telecommunications and energy/environment. It was an hour well spent!
It was great meeting you and learning about IBM and what you do with IBM. Thanks so much for coming.
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Thank you for coming to our class. I learned a lot about IBM. The "name" activity was really fun!
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Maya
Thank you so much for coming! I had a great time! I liked all the activities you brought with you especially the one where you spread the butter on the bread. Your job seems really cool!
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Your prestention was so fun. I loved the activites you bought us to do.
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Irene :)
Thank you for coming in to our classroom and talking to us about what you do for IBM! Now I understand that you have to be very precise and you have to translate every single detail and step when you are programming a computer. I also thought it was really cool how you brought us stickers and each letter or number on the sticker was made into something else that had to do with STEM careers.
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~Elaine
Dear Mrs.Kogan,
ReplyDeleteThank you for coming in and talking about different kinds of S.T.E.M. jobs. It was very interesting when you told us you personal life story on how you came to work at IBM. The demonstration you showed the class on instructions with bread, butter and a knife (roll of paper towels, container and a plastic knife) required lot's of logical thinking. Thanks for coming in again!
~Karen~
I had a lot of fun hearing of your work in IBM. I also liked the activities we did with you. Thank you for coming to our class.
ReplyDeleteGil
Thanks so much for coming in and explaining your job at IBM! I liked how you demonstrated your job by making a bread and butter sandwich. Thanks again!
ReplyDeleteElla
Thanks for coming. I really liked the pictures on the stickers. the category game was also fun. I loved the sticky notes.
ReplyDeleteAndrew
Thank you so much for coming to our class! I especially liked the activity you did where you pretended to be a robot making a sandwich, and we had to tell you all of the steps. It showed me that things that are so simple to us actually are complicated to computers!
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Elizabeth
Thanks for coming into our classroom. I really learned a lot about IBM. Your job sounds really cool. I really liked when you compared just buttering a piece of bread, and then telling a computer to butter.
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I liked to here about your work at IBM and how your improve without bread or butter.
ReplyDeleteDavid
Thank You soo much for coming into our class to tea ch us all about different types of S.T.E.M Jobs. I really enjoyed the excercize did when we had to spell out our names. I also thought that it was very generous to give out Post-It Sticky Notes at the end of your stay with my class. Once again Thank You.
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Thanks for teaching me about science and math it taught me alot Domenic
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for coming into our classroom and teaching us about what you do and about many different S.T.E.M jobs. I thought it was very interesting when we could spell our name and see what type of S.T.E.M jobs were there. I also thought it was very interesting when you talked about all the different things I.B.M does. Thanks again.
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Thank you for visiting our class. I was wondering afterward, if IBM no longer makes the hardware, where does it come from? I know IBM makes software, but what kind, because don't the IBM computers run windows?
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Thanks for coming! It sounds really fun to put orders in a computer. I also liked the activity with the butter and bread. IBM sounds like a great place to work!
ReplyDeleteBenji
Thank you so much for coming into our class and teaching us about your job! Now I know that you have to be very specific when you program a computer. I thought the bread and butter activity was very fun and interesting! I also liked the naming activity and the activity where you use stickers that have STEM careers on them to spell out your name. Also, thank you for giving us those cool sticky notes!
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Yordi
Thank you for coming into our class and talking to us about DIGITS and what you do at IBM. It was really interesting.
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