Coder Dojo will be offering free week-long coding/gaming workshops at the Living Lab - drawing on WMG's work in water-awareness and 'hydrolocal' practices.
Through fun activities – such as exploring the rain gardens, food forest, and other water conservation practices, telling stories, making games, and collecting data - participants will consider what each can do to make the most of the water we have here in Tucson.
Who will be teaching the CoderDojo workshops?
Dan Stormont is a docent with Watershed Management Group and a certified water harvesting practitioner. He worked with Microsoft TEALS Program for five years, helping to build equitable and inclusive computer science education programs in high schools and, prior to that, he was a program instructor with the Pima County Public Library where he founded CoderDojo Tucson - a local dojo of the CoderDojo Foundation, a registered charitable organization based in Dublin, Ireland.
Dan has advanced degrees in computing engineering and is passionate about applying computing to sustainability. This summer's workshop seried is focuced on using computing to understand and communicate the concept of 'hydrolocal' - thriving with the water resources available where we live.
Workshop Themes
- Week of July 10th: Learning to be hydrolocal by understanding the amount of water you can collect from rain and grey-water and how much water you need. We will collect data about a number of systems at the Living Lab and Learning Center, analyze the data to understand what it is telling us, and use that understanding to tell our local water story.
- Week of July 17th: Learn about plants (flora) and animals (fauna) native to the Sonoran Desert through a number of interactive projects at the Living Lab and Learning Center.
- Week of July 24th: Create your own hydro-local project. What can you do to be more aware of water and use it more efficiently?
When, Where & How to find out more
- In-person week-long Coder Dojo workshops at the Living Lab start Monday, July 10th and run through July.
- All workshops are Monday - Friday, 9am - 12pm.
- Watershed Management Group’s Living Lab is located at 1137 N. Dodge Ave just off of Speedway Blvd.
- For more information or to register for the workshops, visit www.coderdojotucson.com or email Dan Stormont - daniel.stormont@gmail.com
- Participants will be under the care of Dan Stormont.
- Participants should bring their own water bottles, any desired snacks, and come prepared to be inside and outside at the Living Lab demonstration site.
- For information about the Living Lab, please contact Julie Regalado, Education Program Director, at jregalado@watershedmg.org
