alice-teacher PBSKids “SciGirls” featuring Alice

[Katie Hessen]

Today is the premiere of a new episode of SciGirls on PBS kids! This episode, titled Cartoon Coders, features 3 middle school girls using Alice to create an animation that urges kids to take action in their own communities. Each episode of SciGirls features a group of real girls (not actors) working on a STEM project they find meaningful. If you watch closely, you will see that the girls in the episode actually used both Alice 2 and 3 to get the variety of scenes and characters that they wanted, but we don't go into this kind of detail in the show.

This new episode can be streamed starting today via the PBS apps, and various websites (see below). It also airs on PBS stations nationwide, check your local listings for broadcast times and dates. 

Watch on the PBS Kids website: https://pbskids.org/scigirls/videos/?keyword=show504
Watch or Download on the SciGirls Educator website: http://www.scigirlsconnect.org/resources/cartoon-coders/
Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/_xYSe9Cj7IU

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions!
Katie Hessen

A little background on SciGirls:
SciGirls is an Emmy Award-winning PBS television series that explores, encourages and educates girls (and boys!) around science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. Produced by Twin Cities PBS (TPT) and shared with public television stations nationwide, SciGirls’ five seasons are packed with STEM energy. In addition to standards-based episodes, children, families and educators everywhere enjoy SciGirls’ popular PBSKIDS.org website, hands-on activities and educator workshops. All of SciGirls’ resources work together to address one simple but powerful goal: to change the way girls see STEM and the way the world sees girls!

Season Five continues the SciGirls STEM adventure with a focus on a critical 21st-century skill: coding. Across five new episodes, smart, creative and real girls—not actors—team up with adult STEM professional role models to track urban wildlife, “paint” with music, explore Florida’s ocean life, animate, communicate and create—all by using computer coding. As always, SciGirls’ animated characters Izzie and Jake are along for the ride, using STEM to solve problems, help people and have fun!

SciGirls is produced by Twin Cities PBS, and is made possible by major funding from the National Science Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Cargill Foundation, The Craig Newmark Foundation and the PPG Foundation.

Katie Hessen | she, her, hers |  STEM Content & Outreach Specialist, SciGirls
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SciGirls  Media and education that change how girls see STEM and how the world sees girls!
 

On 12/28/19, 9:08 AM, "alice-teachers on behalf of Don Slater" <alice-teachers-bounces+khessen=tpt.org at lists.andrew.cmu.edu on behalf of don at alice.org> wrote:

    On Jan 2, the PBSKids program, SciGirls, will air the episode “Cartoon Coders”, that features girls making an animations using Alice. 
    
    SciGirls  Media and education that change how girls see STEM and how the world sees girls!
    
    Free guides for educators at SciGirlsconnect.org.
    
    See the link below for more information.
    
    https://pbskids.org/scigirls
    
    Don Slater
    
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