Bloomington’s K-5 computer science immersion program builds future problem-solvers

Bloomington’s K-5 computer science immersion program builds future problem-solvers

A class of third-graders are given six Lego pieces. They have to make a duck out of it. The duck could be sitting, swimming or flying. But, no duck should look the same.  This is how the third-graders at Indian Mounds Elementary School in Bloomington started their first day of computer science lessons.  They then went on to dismantle the ducks and were asked to create anything that is not a duck: a test for imagination, flexibility and creativit…