ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Math Club featured in ‘Press Herald’ article
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Math Club members Shawn Pilling, Nick Paolini and Cassidy Smith with club advisor Jennifer Fatula
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students who participated in the Maine Digital Festival at the Augusta Civic Center were featured in an article in the .
The goal of the event is to show students, as young as kindergarteners, that coding can be fun.
Students from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½â€™s Math Club setup an obstacle course of fake mushrooms. Children who successfully assembled, or coded, their Code-a-pillars to make it through the maze of mushrooms received a prize.
Jennifer Fatula, M.A., Math Club advisor, told the Press Herald most of the youngsters who took part successfully completed the task.
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ student Shawn Pilling volunteered at the event. He told the Press Herald he and his fellow students wanted to help get children interested in coding at an early age.
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ student Shawn Pilling leads children through the obstacle course