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- Megan Venn-Wycherley,
- Chris Bennett
The Micro:Vote project is designed as an introduction to text-based programming through a 12-week project aimed at 11 to 13 year olds. The project is designed as a School-University partnership whose aim is to highlight the role of creativity and social impact in computing through the design of digital voting posters using the BBC micro:bit and MicroPython. Adopting a Design Studio approach, the project scaffolds students in the creation of a physical computing voting system and informative poster, to gather responses on an issue of social importance within the community. Through the lens of Human-Computer Interaction, students investigate the role of computing in activism and learn to implement data and control structures.
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