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This program is tentative and subject to change.

Fri 28 Feb 2025 10:00 - 10:45 at Exhibit Hall C - Demos - Demos #3

This year’s Snap! 10 release marks a major leap forward, bringing advanced machine learning capabilities directly into the hands of students and educators. Version 10 introduces support for building ML models, including single-layer perceptrons, making it easier than ever for students to explore AI concepts within a block-based environment. These updates are accompanied by the ability to define Snap! primitives using Snap! blocks themselves, empowering users to deeply customize and extend the language.

Building on the rich foundation of previous versions, Snap! 10 also includes hundreds of improvements aimed at enhancing both the classroom and the individual learning experience. These include quality-of-life updates such as new debugging tools, dynamic runtime access via the ‘this’ reporter, and expanded support for working with dictionaries and APIs.

In this demo, we’ll showcase the exciting new features in Snap! 10, focusing on how they can be used to engage students in advanced topics like machine learning, data science, and computational thinking. Attendees will learn how to leverage these tools to build custom experiences that meet the evolving needs of their classrooms.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Fri 28 Feb

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10:00 - 10:45
10:00
45m
Talk
Demo 3A: Enhancing Computing Accessibility Education Using Experiential Labs: A Focus on Color Blindness and Localization
Demos
Heather Moses Rochester Institute of Technology, Elaina Trapatsos Rochester Institute of Technology, Farzana Rahman Syracuse University, Samuel Malachowsky Rochester Institute of Technology, Daniel Krutz Rochester Institute of Technology
10:00
45m
Talk
Demo 3B: ILDBug: A new approach to teaching debugging
Demos
Liia Butler University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Charlotte Kiesel University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dipayan Mukherjee University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Mohammed Hassan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Mattox Beckman University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Geoffrey Herman University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10:00
45m
Talk
Demo 3C: Snap! 10 --- From Blocks to AI: Empowering Learning with Custom Primitives and Machine Learning
Demos
Victoria Phelps University of California, Berkeley, Michael Ball UC Berkeley, Daniel Garcia University of California Berkeley, Yuan Garcia Harvey Mudd College