Vocab
Computer Hardware
ASCII Letters
Women Mentors in STEM
Scratch
100
What is a bit?
What is one digit’s location in a Binary number and is short for “Binary Digit”
100
What does RAM stand for?
What is “Random Access Memory
100
What is the binary code for the letter A?
What is 01000001, BWBBBBBW
100
This woman talked about what is data and how data is being used?
Who is Mary OO
100
What is scratch?
What is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, games, and animations – and share your creations with others on the web
200
What is ASCII?
What is “American Standard Code for Information Interchange” encoding of characters.
200
How many wires are there in a CPU approximately?
What is has more than three million of them — each 1/100th the thickness of a human hair
200
What is the binary code for the letter M?
What is 01001101, BWBBWWBW
200
This woman started our day talking about her role as the digital experience director at Amica Insurance?
Who is Jill Rasmussen
200
What is a sprite?
What is an object (picture, drawing) in Scratch that performs functions (actions) controlled by scripts
300
What is the difference between decode and encode?
What is Decode - Convert a coded message into something familiar. Encode - Convert a familiar message into code
300
What are the two most important elements on a hard disk drive?
What is two most important elements on a hard disk drive are the spinning storage platter (A) and the read/write head (B).
300
What is the binary code for the letter T?
What is 01010100, BWBWBWBB
300
This woman gave us a tour of the inside of the computer and also is a professor at Bryant University?
Who is Professor Janet Prichard
300
Which kind of blocks let you repeat actions many times or make a choice of which actions to? (image 2&3)
What is Control
400
What is the ASCII code and Binary code for the letters ‘A’ and ‘B’?
What is Letter ASCII Code Binary A 065 01000001 B 066 01000010
400
What are Transistors?
What is a processor sends information flying through each of its wires and through TRANSISTORS, which are like wires with gates on them. Transistors either let electricity through or don’t, depending on what the instructions tell them to do
400
What letter does this code stand for? 01000100, BWBBBWBB
What is the letter D
400
This woman told us over started her career as an artist, but now works in Computer Science.
Who is Lisa O'Rourke
400
Which kind of blocks do you use to allow the user to click on the mouse or hit the space bar to make something happen? (image 1)
What is Event
500
Convert this binary code to English? 01000111 01001001 01010010 01001100 01010000 01001111 01010111 01000101 01010010
What is Girl Power
500
How do CD’s, DVD’s and Blu-Ray Disks work?
What is they work by directing a laser either back to a laser-reader, or off course so that the light never returns. The presence or absence of reflected light is read as a binary encoding in the same way as on and off or one and zero.
500
What letter does this code stand for? 01011010, BWBWWBWB
What is the letter Z
500
This woman is a business analyst at Alex & Ani who caught us how to make binary code jewelry.
Who is Courtney Pereira
500
What is a script?
What is a collection (or group, stack) of blocks that all interlock with one another (to make a game or animation)
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