It's #PiDay!! 🎉🥧
📆 Join us Mar 14th at Lehman College in Bronx, NY breakfast/check in starts 8:00 am!
Our workshop is Random Numbers in Math and Science: Slicing PI in P5.JS! Students will learn how to calculate digits in pi using random number generator and geometry skills!
#PiDay is Just 4 days away! 🥧
📆 Join us Mar 14th for our Random Numbers in Math and Science: Slicing PI in P5.JS workshop! Students will learn how to calculate digits in pi using random number generator and geometry skills!
🛰️ You use her math every time you open a map! This week we honor Dr. Gladys West, the Navy mathematician who created the foundation for GPS.
From "human computer" to supercomputer programmer, her work changed the world.
Check out our Pi in Parallel activity to see how we use coding to solve big math problems faster: https://explore.stemcoding.org/projects/pidayparallel.html 💻🥧
Pi3 weeks to Pi Day! 🥧 Did you know NASA only uses 15 digits of π for deep space travel? Using $3.14159265358979$ is so precise that 15 billion miles away, the error is less than the width of a finger!
🚀Test your own precision with our Lunar Descent project. You’ll need to code a rotation from 0 to π /2 radians to land your craft safely! 🌑💻
https://explore.stemcoding.org/projects/lunar.html
This week for #BlackHistoryMonth, we honor physicist and astronaut Dr. Ronald McNair! 🚀 As an MIT laser physicist and NASA mission specialist, he was a master of orbital operations.
Connect his legacy to our STEMcoding Orbital Motion project! Students code simulations of Kepler’s Laws to see how satellites stay in orbit: https://explore.stemcoding.org/projects/keplers.html
"Before you can make a dream come true, you must first have one." ✨
"I'm your density" -George McFly, BTTF 🚗 ⚡️
Happy Valentine’s Day from STEMcoding!! ❤️
While George McFly fumbled that interaction, Density is a great way to talk about connections or how much "stuff" is packed into a space.
Try this in python:
n = 25 # Number of students
total = n * (n - 1)
print(f"Total cards: {total}")
#STEMcoding #Python #ValentinesDay #BackToTheFuture #mathstodon
Happy Rose Day Eve! 🌹✨
Since Rose Day is tomorrow and Valentines Day is next Saturday, we’re celebrating with a different kind of bouquet—one grown with code!
Did you know you can use polar coordinates to create "Rose Curves"? By changing just one variable (k) in the equation r = cos(kθ ) , you can grow digital flowers with any number of petals. 📐🌸
Check out our Flower Activity to code your own digital garden: https://explore.stemcoding.org/projects/flower.html
Celebrate #LoveDataWeek starting February 9th! 📈 💖
Create your own night sky ✨️ and analyze star positions and magnitude with our Night Sky activity: https://explore.stemcoding.org/projects/nightsky.html
🚀 To kick off #BlackHistoryMonth, we’re honoring the "Human Computer," Katherine Johnson!
Before NASA had supercomputers, they had Katherine. Her mastery of Euler’s Method was vital to project mercury! 📐
Her orbital logic is the heart of our Mercury Part 1 Activity: https://explore.stemcoding.org/projects/projectmercury1.html
Part 2 coming soon!
📆 Pi Day Countdown: 7 weeks to go !!📆
Celebrate with a slice of pie and a fun activity! 😋 🎉
Check out our pi day activity here: https://explore.stemcoding.org/projects/piday1.html
Fun fact: Archimedes of Syracuse was credited with the first theoretical calculation of π around 250 BCE. He use polygons to "trap" the circle to find the value! 📐
Fun fact 2: Albert Einstein's Birthday is also on Pi Day in 1879!
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