This document summarizes a computer science program for middle school students called CS-First at Hartman Intermediate School. The program was led by three teachers and met twice a week in October. It introduced 18 students to game design using the Scratch programming platform. Students created different types of games over the course of the program and learned programming skills. The students enjoyed participating and learning how to program their own games.

1. Hartman Intermediate School

2. CS-First
● Focused on increasing students exposure to
Computer Science
● Led by Mrs. Ellen Ruckert, Mr. Keith Golebie,
and Mr. Matthew Skoczylas.
● Met every Tuesday and Thursday in October
● From 3:00pm-4:30pm

3. Why Computer Science

4. Why Computer Science

5. Why Computer Science

6. Why Computer Science
We are very fortunate here at ECASD to have Computer Programming
Classes, but there are gaps in our curriculum. (7th and 8th grades)

7. Computer Science at ECASD
Hour of Code 13-14
a movement to recruit
millions to try one hour
of computer science, The
Hour of CODE will take
place during Computer
Science Education Week
December 8-14, 2014 Currently we are the only district in
Lawrence County signed up

8. Computer Science at ECASD
Scratch Alice 2.0
& 3.0
Tynker The
Finch

9. CS-First at Hartman
● Our CS-First program is one of only two CS-
First Programs in Pennsylvania.

10. CS-First at Hartman-Game Design
18 students signed up
12 Boys
6 Girls
10 had Perfect Attendance

11. CS-First at Hartman-Game Design
● Signed in to the Scratch
Website.
● Watched videos to learn
about Game Design.
● Created Games.
● Shared with their Friends.
● Each day was a different
type of game.

12. CS-First at Hartman-Game Design

13. CS-First at Hartman-Game Design
Hartman Morning News Feature

14. CS-First at Hartman-Game Design

15. CS-First at Hartman-Game Design
Day 7-We had a student design
his own Halloween game with
monsters, bullets and
pumpkins.. he wanted to start
with 6 and count down when a
bullet is shot and also keep track
of how many magazines were
used... Finally got him to think it
out on paper.

16. CS-First at Hartman-Game Design
-I never knew that I
would be able to
program my own game.
-I never thought I’d
ever be able to do all of
this stuff.
-I liked how we got to
program different
things.
-I loved the club, and
learning about how to
make my own sprites.

17. CS-First at Hartman-Game Design
Emily- Maze Game
Mark- Platform Game
Molly- Maze Game
Anthony- Falling Objects Game

18. We look forward to the next CS-First Program.
Storytelling-January 2015