Brian Mhatre
7/5/2018 1:30
Penisula Bridge
Rolando Victoria
rvictoria@menloschool.org

Going into my PACT project I wasn’t sure how I was going to be received. I was trying to teach computer science to kids how to code so I was definitely a little worried about how interested the kids would be. For the first week, I taught the kids a combination of lessons from code.org as well as show them cool things that they could do in terminal. The kids took a little interest in the lessons but I took quite a bit of encouragement to get them to do the work. However, they were a lot more receptive towards learning stuff in terminal. I showed them a bunch of commands that allowed them to do all sorts of things with their computer and they were really genuinely interested in learning more. This was really encouraging for me and was really nice to see. Going into this opportunity I felt if I could have an impact on just one kid and change their views on a future in computer science I would consider the opportunity a success. I am really appreciative to have had this opportunity to share something I am very passionate about with kids who were willing to learn. At the end of the day while I may not have had the biggest impact on any individual kid I think I did do a good job of showing the kids some of the cool stuff that can be accomplished with Computer Science.