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?"