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GROW 2002 Summer Workshop - Exploring Computation

Presented By: Dr. Matthew Dwyer, Associate Professsor, Computing and Information Sciences

GROW girls were introduced to the basic building blocks of computing hardware. Participants were able to construct their own simple electronic circuits that achieve simple (combinatorial) calculations. Participants learned how to describe their strategy for solving those problems in the programming language Logo, and discovered the power of computing in scaling to much larger instances of the problem. Participants also learned how to use some simple commands to draw complex geometric shapes, and explored what amounts to an enormously powerful "spirograph"-like playground.