In February 2020, the Tech Dawgs participated in the Boy Scouts Organization Cubs Can Code event where they taught Cub Scouts how coding works and what an algorithm is through a series of workshops.
In one workshop, the Cub Scouts were asked to create pseudocode to help move a penny across a paper grid. Scouts worked to find the fastest and slowest solutions. They also explored how to rewrite their pseudocode into faster pseudocode by grouping similar tasks.
In another workshop, Scouts were given a blank board which helped them puzzle-piece together bits of code. Commands like ‘if-statements’ and ‘equal-not-equal-statements’ were explained and used to create a basic Android app. The Scouts were able to run a quiz game on provided android tablets.
