DEFINITIONS
A container that a program uses to store and remember information.
What is a variable?
An Agile technique practiced by teams on a periodic basis to report on status.
What is a "stand-up"?
She is considered the "first computer programmer" and had a programming language named after her.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
The default sprite on Scratch.
What is a cat?
Our favorite librarian who hosts our Girls Who Code club?
Who is Miss Cathy?
What construct checks whether something is true prior to doing some other action?
What is IF-THEN-ELSE?
In Scratch, it is the individual object that can change costumes and perform on a stage.
What is a sprite?
An American game designer and author who advocates the use of mobile and digital technology to channel positive attitudes.
Who is Jane McGonigal?
The topic for this year's project.
What is Animal Rights?
Our team member who has been in our club the most years.
Who is Ann Marie?
A list of steps in a program all wrapped up together that turn an input into an output.
What is a function?
The programming language that is used to create the actual content of a web page.
What is HTML?
What did Reshma Saujani write?
What is Girls Who Code?
Term used for a "weak" handshake.
What is "dead fish"?
The school with the most club members (hint: 3 members).
What is Friendship Junior High School?
Variables, conditionals, loops and functions.
What are the "core four"?
A group decision-making technique used to reduce a long list of items to a manageable number by means of a structured series of votes.
What is multi-voting?
British computer scientist who was responsible for the technology that underlies most modern search engines.
Who is Karen Sparck Jones?
The type of coding language that Scratch is.
What is block-based?
The letter of the alphabet that occurs most frequently as the first letter of our team members' first name.
What is "A"?
A set of instructions that will be repeated more than once.
What is a loop?
The most important thing we teach in this club.
What is sisterhood?
The founder of Girls Who Code.
Who is Reshma Saujani?
The Girls Who Code tutorial you would take if you wanted to learn how to create a mobile application.
What is Thunkable?
The range of grades for our team members.
Example: 3rd - 6th
What is 6th - 11th (Junior)?