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Coding a Better Path

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In the Coding a Better Path immersion, students use computer science skills to plan, design, and model components of a statewide Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) System focused on West Virginia’s nine tourist regions using an Intelino J-1 Smart Train.

The Intelino J-1 Smart Train Kit is a codable train car and track set that students program using block coding and snap-on colored tiles to control speed, direction, turns, lights and sounds.

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Key Topics: computer science, geography, cartography, history of transportation, environmentalism, community service.

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Business, Management, & Administration

Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics

Hospitality and Tourism

Information Technology

Immersion Agenda

  • Pique interest with a short introduction.
  • Examine high-interest examples of transportation engineering and sites in nine tourist regions of WV.
  • Briefly discuss and review relevant concepts.
  • Detail safety precautions.
  • Students work collaboratively to use computer science and research of tourist destinations to design the passenger experience.
  • Groups use the Intelino Smart Train to model transit system.
  • Students reflect on their work.
  • Short whole group discussion recaps successes, difficulties, and unexpected events.
  • Possibilities for "What's Next?"