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2021 GAMES FOR CHANGE FINALIST
2021 GAMES FOR CHANGE FINALIST
A team of PPA's finest TECH innovators developed a MINECRAFT project that earned them recognition as finalists in this year's Gamed for Change Competition.
Go PPA TECH Team Go! .
2021 MOUSE CREATE
MICRO PROJECT COMPETITION
RUNNER UP
2021
MOUSE CREATE
MICRO PROJECT COMPETITION
RUNNER UP
Congratulations to out runner up
in the 2021 MOUSE CREATE Competition Noor S. 606D
https://mouse.org/news/winners-for-mouse-microproject-web-animator
2021 TECH HONORS INNOVATOR CLUB
2021 TECH HONORS INNOVATOR CLUB
This year a group of exceptional TECH PPA students engaged in advanced understandings of CAD, SCRATCH, HTML and MINECRAFT in PPA's first TECH Honors Innovator's Club.
2020 WEEK OF CODE
2020 WEEK OF CODE
PPA students celebrated this year's .Week of Code by investigating foundational principles of AI and explored block programming challenges on Code.org.
Remote Learning Resources
REMOTE LEARNING RESOURCES
Please see the Remote Learning Resource links on this website to assist in supporting our PPA students during this time.
2020 DIGITAL CODE CLUB
DIGITAL CODE CLUB
Interested in building your digital TECH toolkit? Looking to join a community of likeminded innovators and digital tech tinkerers? Well join the after school online PPA DIGITAL TECH Club hosted by Ms. Theobald. Invites to meeting are posted on your Google calendars and sent to your Parkside Prep Gmail account. Hope to see you there!
2020 MOUSE CREATE COMPETITION WINNER
2020 MOUSE CREATE COMPETITION WINNER
Congratulations to SABINA HENRY for winning the March MOUSE CREATE "Earthling Music Competition"
2020 MINECRAFT FOR EDUCATION COMPETITION
2020 MINECRAFT FOR EDUCATION COMPETITION
Interested in MINECRAFT of an expert builder? Then join the NYCDOE Citywide MINECRAFT FOR EDUCATION CHALLENGE to create a Public Space.Details for the competition have been posed on your Parkside Prep Academy Google Classroom stream, including a Google slide to assist your build ideas. Happy MINECRAFT building!
An Update Regarding
Technology Remote Learning at PPA.
Remote Learning Update
Dear Parents and Students,
Thanks to remote learning, we can reconnect and I will be available to continue to provide the TECH supports that strengthens our 21st Century Career Readiness Skills.
I am enthusiastic about your academic growth, understandings and application of all things TECH as we venture together into a new phase of learning and sharing our ideas. Remember always that,I am email away, so if you have any questions or concerns please email me so we can work together toward a solution.
Appreciatively,
Ms. Theobald
THE FINCH ROBOTS HAVE ARRIVED!
FINCH ROBOTS
Birsbrain Technl=ologies has accepted our loan application granting our school access to a classroom set of FINCH robots. For our loan period we will be experinmenting and creating phycial programming challanges to develop our physical computing skills!.
GAMES FOR CHANGE COMPETITION
GAMES FOR CHANGE COMPETITION
Great news. Our school has been accepted to Participate in the GAMES for CHANGE Competitioin. Studnets interesednd in creating mockups or fully functional games should sign up so we can collaborate, form teams and schedule times to deelop ideas and prototypes..Excitedly looking forward to our success in this endeavor.
COMMUNITY CODE
COMMUNITY CODE
Last year we formed patnerships to bring coding exposure and experince to students on PS 92 and District 75. It was a rewatding experince for all students involves as TECH skills were shared and understandings of all things TECH blossomes. Joinus in spreading your TECH expertise with our community this year!
BetaNYC-CS4ALL BROOKLYN HACKATHON FINALS
BetaNYC-CS4ALL BROOKLYN HACKATHON FINALS
Team HERO FOODS, has advanced to the finals and will be one of three middle schools representing Brooklyn in the citywide hackathon held at City Hall on April 18th, 2019... UPDATE:
CONGRATULATIONS
to PPA's team, HERO FOODS who placed 3rd in the CITYWIDE BetaNYC-CS4ALL CITYWIDE HACKATHON FINALS!
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COMMUNITY CODE with DISTRICT 75
COMMUNITY CODE
with DISTRICT 75
On Friday, March 29th, 2019, PPA students volunteered to host PPA's first Peer to Peer Community Code event. The event held in the computer lab at PPA, afforded students an opportunity to share and apply their undendings of understandings of digital illustration with students peers. The event was a success and student are looking forward to participating in future events.
DISTRICT 17 Imagine Mars
STEAM
Exhibition
DISTRICT 17 Imagine Mars STEAM
Exhibition
On May 18, 2019 from 9:00 AM to 2:00PM. Five teams selected from PPA's TECH Innovators Club will be individually presenting innovations to support life an MARS at the Brooklyn STEAM Center located at 141 Flushing Avenue, Building 77 in Brooklyn, NY 11251 .All are invited. Join the celebration STEM excellence across the District..
BIRDBRAIN TECHNOLOGY TECH LOAN
BirdBrain TECHNOLOGIES
Accepted our loan application for school school access to a classroom set of FINCH robots.
PHYSICAL COMPUTING INNOVATORS CLUB
PHYSICAL COMPUTING INNOVATORS CLUB
Need sometime to tinker on new tech ideas or prototypes? Well join Ms. Theoblad and TECH minded PPA peers to build and collaborate on your inovations during recess. Check posted calendar on lab door for dates and times. See you there!
G-SUITE FOR EDUCATION
G-SUITE FOR EDUCATION
The flexibility and resourcefulness of the G-SUITE EDUCATION platform will soon be available for students and staff to connect, communicate, share resources, assignment checklists, projects and stay connected. For more information, contact Ms. Theobald.
HOUR OF CODE
WEEK OF CODE
PPA students engaged in a fun filled week of computer programming explorations, through multi-platformed resources that exposed students to multifold CS principles and visual block coding challenges. Over the course of the week students applied their imagination and creativity to have been applying their creativity, curiosity developing creative innovative solutions to community problem.
CS4ALL PD Lead
CS4ALL PD Lead
Ms. Theobald has been selected as a CS4ALL PD Lead for the upcoming academic year .This opportunity will afford her a platformom to forge collaborations across the academic areas and increase innersions of Computer Science Principles across multi-subject curricular instruction.
COMMUNITY CODE PPA Parent Edition
COMMUNITY CODE PPA Parent Edition