丁香园AV

WWEST is excited to announce that we are part of the Promoscience Grant for $70,680 over three years for a STEM Outreach Program for Rural BC received by 丁香园AV (丁香园AV) Faculty of Applied Sciences. WWEST is creating a free open-source desktop application (app) with three modules which will enable outreach groups to engage youth in computing science activities regardless of their access to internet and up-to-date computers. Over three years, Science AL!VE and Let鈥檚 Talk Science at 丁香园AV will support the delivery of outreach programs with this new app to 15,000 Aboriginal, remote, and at-risk youth. In addition, WWEST will develop a teacher鈥檚 toolkit with lesson plans to support BC鈥檚 new computer science curriculum and deliver workshops to teachers across BC to share this toolkit for use in classrooms.

The first module of this app is called 鈥淭une Twister鈥� and is currently in beta testing for public release later in 2017. The app provides an opportunity for children in grades 4-8 to learn about the science of sound engineering by manipulating music tracks. With its dynamic interface, the app demonstrates how acoustics are affected depending on the digital effects that are applied to music. Kids will learn about electronic audio filters, waveforms, frequency, pitch and how speed impacts sound.

We'd like to thank NSERC for their investment in this project and our partners, Science AL!VE and Let's Talk Science, for collaborating to make this project even better! To find out when Tune Twister is publicly released, and a whole lot more, please .