The below are photos captured at over 50 #RVCHourofCode workshops in the Rockford Region over the last year! Workshops took place at various Rock Valley College locations, Cherryvale Mall, area Middle Schools & Churches to most recently Zoom!

Enjoy! - Professor Chuck Konkol, Rock Valley College

Over 3,000 area students have participated in the #RVCHourOfCode since 2015! View Post.

Concept
#ComingSoon {Rockford Code Camp} is designed to teach at risk youth in the Rockford region, ages 12-18. {Rockford Code Camp} will teach students the basics of mobile app web development. JavaScript, HTML5, and WebGL technologies will be taught. These web languages and libraries have been been used to create games and extensively used in Facebook, Instagram, Netflix, PayPal, Apple.

Goal
The goal of {Rockford Code Camp} is to reach area students ages 12-18 who don’t play sports but are interested in technology.

Cost & Delivery
There will be no cost to students for the 4 week online course. Once COVID-19 restrictions are lifted we are looking for a location on the west side of Rockford.

​Future & Thanks
Our hope is to have this program ready to launch by August 1st.

I would like to thank State Representative Maurice West for his support on this vital program for area youth!

Chuck Konkol, Community Technologist and Professor at Rock Valley College

​This project is part of RVC Hour of Code

Locally Sponsored
To offset development and management cost of {Rockford Code Camp} local area businesses will have opportunity to sponsor program at different levels.

This week students learned about Javascript functions, Windows DOM and creating random numbers.

Week 4: Create a Game using Javascript
​Professor Konkol   >         Play Game          See Code
Vidhu                      >         Play Game          See Code
Sam                         >         Play Game          See Code
Alex                         >         Play Game          See Code
Arianna                  >         Play Game          See Code

This week students learned some basic Intro to Javascript tags and interactive input from website visitors!
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Alex - https://plnkr.co/plunk/gRhuvlpsIVui81yE  
Arianna https://plnkr.co/plunk/XrKyOlE7pw4Iycn7  
Angel - https://plnkr.co/plunk/74SWFNBCMKXImfOS  
ElyAnna - https://plnkr.co/plunk/6gy8iEy9X7TieDtd  
Vidhu - https://plnkr.co/plunk/u0OOOlutXOMVfQfN  
Julianna - https://plnkr.co/plunk/gxY0Kqtl1cnvaqPH 
Sara - https://plnkr.co/plunk/QU1wfMK3VBJn5G2B  
Sofia - https://plnkr.co/plunk/8gk5ONii9Y5xXfzE  
Alan - https://plnkr.co/plunk/HchszPpC4SvwCvzK  
Timothy - https://plnkr.co/plunk/O54M15UnQ9KGdMOB 
Leo   - https://plnkr.co/plunk/zomHTzM9grVuMJdJ 
Louise - https://plnkr.co/plunk/scc2uLSFzgzK3d0Z 
Ana - https://plnkr.co/plunk/1UgEZ3QQZkVEN40L

Lesson: Intro to Javascript
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This is week 2 of learning HTML.

Students learned how to use the image, paragraph, break, and body background color tags. Students also successfully created their own About Me webpage. They all worked together and did a great job!

Students learn to code from home by connecting over Zoom with Professor Konkol every Tuesday at 11am! They go through three phases in the hour. The first phase is Connect Time where students learn basic coding principles each week. The second phase in Coding Time where students are guided through a coding lesson. The third stage is Share Time in which students share their code with each other and to the world!

To find out more information visit the Home Edition page.

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