BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Monday kicks off Computer Science Week in Warren County Public Schools, and a group of teachers made their way to Green River Regional Educational Cooperative’s headquarters to learn a little more about this field.

From playing soccer with robots to flying drones, it’s all about taking skills back to the classroom that they can teach to their students.

“Today is our computer science event… so all of the activities that they’re doing today revolve around computer science. It is Computer Science Week… so it’s a great time to do that. Schools all across the district are doing different computer science activities in the classroom,” WCPS digital learning coach Adam Vincent says.

There’s plenty of activities that the EdTech Ambassadors can take part in.

“We have 3 different Sphero activities that they can do. There’s the ball that they can drive around in code. There’s a couple of different rovers and different Sphero Indy… and each color mat will determine what the robot does, so… We have some drones, we have some Lego spike kits… they’re learning how to use Tinkercad and 3D design,” Vincent says.

For one Warren Central High School teacher, he’s excited to learn more about modern technology and how he can apply it in his classroom.

“I think the cool thing is that it doesn’t really matter what grade level that you’re teaching at. It doesn’t really matter what subject you teach in our modern world. We have all kinds of different applications for these modern tech tools for these computer science applications that can help students develop their skill sets regardless of content area… so it kind of can apply to any educator, at any grade level,” Justin Jackson, a biology teacher, says.

As for what he’s most excited to take back, it has to be intro level coding because in a way, it relates to what he teaches.

“That’s its own language, right? It’s a language of life… and you can sort of translate a lot of the coding side of those things, and developing those skill sets into… again, any subject, but especially in my biology classroom. I’m really looking forward to providing these opportunities for my students to help differentiate the learning experience that they’re getting for me in my classroom,” Jackson says.