Partnerships Achieve Creative Connections Between Coding, Music, and Science

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Abstract

Learn how partnerships have provided Puerto Rican Latino students innovative and tailored opportunities to learn coding and develop computational thinking.

Keywords:

• Middle School
• High School
• Informal Education
• Computer Science
• Environmental Science
• Inclusion
• Interdisciplinary
• STEM

Acknowledgments

The Remezcla Puerto Rico Project is supported with funding from the National Science Foundation, Award No. 2005818. Special thanks to the fifth and sixth authors’ students who actively participated in the two projects described in this article. We also acknowledge the collaboration of our partners with the efforts that led to the writing of this article: Diley Hernández, Jayma O. Koval, Douglas Edwards, Jyoti Kaneria, and Jason Freeman, at Georgia Tech; Tom McKlin, Taneisha Lee, Emily Bryans, and Lorelei Cooper at The Findings Group; and Michelle Borrero and Brenda Santiago at the UPR Center for Science and Mathematics Education Research.

*Opening photo by Brenda Lee Estévez. The STEAMezcla Project students and teacher.

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Notes on contributors

Pascua Padró-Collazo

Pascua Padró-Collazo is the Remezcla PR evaluator at the University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Isaris R. Quiñones-Pérez

Isaris R. Quiñones-Pérez is the Remezcla PR program coordinator at the University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Rafael A. Arce-Nazario

Rafael A. Arce-Nazario is the Remezcla PR PI and a Computer Science Department professor at the University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Joseph Carroll-Miranda

Joseph Carroll-Miranda is the Remezcla PR CoPI and a Graduate School of Education professor at the University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Lizzette M. Velázquez-Rivera

Lizzette M. Velázquez-Rivera is a School of Education professor and the creator of The Code, Science & Music Remix Project at the University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Brenda Lee Estévez-Moreno

Lilliana Marrero-Solís is the workshop facilitator of The STEAMezcla Project and a computer science graduate student at the University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Lilliana Marrero-Solís

Brenda Lee Estévez-Moreno is the environmental science teacher of the STEAMezcla Project and teacher in charge of the Matcien Organization in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico.