{"id":1453,"date":"2016-04-20T10:25:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T14:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2016-04-20T10:25:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T14:25:24","slug":"aauw-wytheville-branch-sponsored-stem-saturday-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/2016\/04\/20\/aauw-wytheville-branch-sponsored-stem-saturday-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"AAUW Wytheville branch sponsored STEM Saturday Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AAUW Wytheville branch sponsored a STEM Saturday Workshop for middle school girls on Saturday, November 7, 2015 at Wytheville Community College. Five members of Virginia Tech&#8217;s Association for Women in Computing (AWC) student group participated. Marina Kiseleva<strong>, <\/strong>Michelle Becerra, Vanessa Cedeno, Christy Coghlan and Abigail Bartolome led two workshops during the day. The first workshop, entitled &#8220;Design Your Own Story &amp; Watch It Go!&#8221;, taught the participants how to create a movie or a game. The second workshop, entitled &#8220;Algorithms \u2014 how to instruct a computer to do things?&#8221;, allowed participants to learn how to describe a problem and solve it as a computer would.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1468\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 1290px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1468 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/03\/STEM-Saturday-Workshop-pic-51.jpg\" alt=\"From L to R: Abigail Bartolome, Vanessa Cedeno, Christy Coghlan, Marina Kiseleva, Michelle Becerra and Barbara Ryder.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/03\/STEM-Saturday-Workshop-pic-51.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/03\/STEM-Saturday-Workshop-pic-51-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">From L to R:<br \/> Abigail Bartolome, Vanessa Cedeno, Christy Coghlan, Marina Kiseleva, Michelle Becerra and Barbara Ryder.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1461\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/03\/STEM-Saturday-Workshop-pic-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"STEM Saturday Workshop pic 1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/03\/STEM-Saturday-Workshop-pic-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/03\/STEM-Saturday-Workshop-pic-1-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1462\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/03\/STEM-Saturday-Workshop-pic-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"STEM Saturday Workshop pic 2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/03\/STEM-Saturday-Workshop-pic-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/03\/STEM-Saturday-Workshop-pic-2-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1463\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/03\/STEM-Saturday-Workshop-pic-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"STEM Saturday Workshop pic 3\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/03\/STEM-Saturday-Workshop-pic-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/03\/STEM-Saturday-Workshop-pic-3-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1464\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/03\/STEM-Saturday-Workshop-pic-4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"STEM Saturday Workshop pic 4\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/03\/STEM-Saturday-Workshop-pic-4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/03\/STEM-Saturday-Workshop-pic-4-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1466\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/03\/STEM-Saturday-Workshop-pic-6-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"STEM Saturday Workshop pic 6\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/03\/STEM-Saturday-Workshop-pic-6-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/03\/STEM-Saturday-Workshop-pic-6-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1467\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/03\/STEM-Saturday-Workshop-pic-7-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"STEM Saturday Workshop pic 7\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/03\/STEM-Saturday-Workshop-pic-7-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/03\/STEM-Saturday-Workshop-pic-7-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AAUW Wytheville branch sponsored a STEM Saturday Workshop for middle school girls on Saturday, November 7, 2015 at Wytheville Community College. Five members of Virginia Tech&#8217;s Association for Women in Computing (AWC) student group participated. Marina Kiseleva, Michelle Becerra, Vanessa Cedeno, Christy Coghlan and Abigail Bartolome led two workshops during the day. 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