Hurley Elementary Teams With Cardinal
Innovations Teams
Middle Schools Compete In “Hour of Code”
Middle Schools across Rowan-Salisbury
Schools completed the Hour of Code during
December 7 to 11. In order to gauge
high student interest, the middle schools
challenged each other to see which school
could have students write the most code.
n This friendly competition allowed
students to gain valuable exposure to
coding, computer programming, and
computer science principles. It is estimated
that by 2021, the US will need 1.4 million
computer scientists, but colleges are only
estimated by to produce 400,000 computer
scientists. This leaves a gap of one million
positions.
When Cardinal Innovations Healthcare needed a training video for its
analytics department, employees decided to take the opportunity to help
Rowan-Salisbury fifth-graders learn about producing a professional video
while having some fun with math.
Students in Paul Drucker’s fifth-grade Academically and Intellectually
Gifted (AIG) class at Hurley Elementary School faced Cardinal Innovations
employees in a game of “Are the Cardinals Smarter than the Fifth Graders.”
This focused on math questions categorized as basic math, basic statistics
and word problems.
Students auditioned to be the host, served as audience members, and
competed on student teams against employees from Cardinal Innovations’
data sciences and business analytics department in the video.
Cardinal Innovations employees made a return visit to Hurley in
December for a screening of the finished video with students, their parents
and teachers.
Photo: Courtesy of Cardinal Innovations
Dr. Gene Bottoms Visits RSS
Rowan-Salisbury Schools
was honored to welcome Dr.
Gene Bottoms, the Director
of “High Schools That Work”
Initiative and Senior VicePresident for the Southern
Regional Education Board
(SREB) to our district. Dr.
Bottoms spent two days in our
district visiting and speaking
with principals, teachers,
school administrators, business
leaders, and elected officials.
The scope of Dr. Bottom’s
initiative is to determine how
we can work together to
close the gaps between young adults’ skill sets and the rising requirements
and opportunities in the workplace. Conversations centered on looking at
instruction differently and deeper to maximize the academics for students
whether they are career or college focused.
n The Hour of Code gave students
an opportunity to learn how computer
programming design various programs while
learning logic and literacy skills. China Grove
Middle, West Rowan Middle, Knox Middle,
Corriher-Lipe Middle, and Southeast Middle
actively competed. Erwin and North Rowan
Middle will participate in the spring due
to scheduling conflicts. Other elementary
schools are also completing the Hour of
Code. For more information, visit http://
www.code.org or https://hourofcode.com/
us.
n The ‘Hour of Code™’ is a nationwide
initiative by Co \ ]\