Be a Pioneer

Be A Pioneer

Dictionary.com defines a pioneer as 

"one who is first, or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress"

Have you ever heard of Rosalind Franklin? 

No?

That is not surprising. 

Unlike her [male] colleagues James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins, who received a Nobel Prize for their model of the double helix structure of DNA, Franklin is rarely noted as the pioneer she really was. 

Franklin, a molecular biologist, whose x-ray DNA photography laid the foundation for understanding the structure of DNA, would never see her work credited. However, without her work, the structure of DNA may still be a mystery. 

Rosalind Franklin set out to do something she loved, and became a pioneer. 

You can be a pioneer too!

Set out to do what you love. 

Achieve your goals. 

Dream big!

1. Provide an overview of your project/artifact. (For example: I designed a video game using Scratch programming where the player, or snowman, has to catch 5 snowflakes and avoid the flying flames.)

2. What were the important learning targets of this project/artifact? (What were the requirements for the project?)

3. What were the computer science concepts used for this project/artifact? (Variables, loops, conditional statements, functions, lists/arrays, methods, etc.)       

4. What were the computational thinking principles used for this project/artifact? (Abstraction, algorithms, correctness, efficiency, iteration or loop statements, variables, etc.)

5. How does this project/artifact relate to the “real” world? What did you learn or use that will help you outside the classroom?

6. In this project/artifact, what did you particularly want others to notice?

7. What would you improve if you could do this over again?

8. Does this project/artifact reflect the effort you put into it? Why or why not?

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