The capstone fair was a wonderful experience. While I went into the fair unsure about the sophistication of my project in comparison to others, I left feeling proud of the work I completed over the course of the semester.
I was apart of the second wave of presentations, so I got the opportunity to view some of the projects beforehand. I had a few favorites—the first being a tie-dye clothing line created to spread positivity among college students. Each article of clothing was dyed by hand and had an original quote on it. I really resonated with this project because it works to enhance experiences of college students in such a high stress environment, in addition to the fact that I am very interested in fashion. Another favorite was a project that investigated different ways to implement educational games. This project was similar to mine in that it worked to find creative ways to best educate a group on a topic. I really enjoyed playing one of the games where you attempt to place all countries in the correct place on a continent using only longitude and latitude measurements.
As for my project, my first visitor was Jason Farman, the director of the Design Cultures and Creativity Honors College. While I was slightly nervous that he was my first visitor, I had a really awesome time explaining the background of my project and showing him the finished product. Another visitor that came by was a librarian for the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System that was interested in using my game in a classroom setting to teach the fundamentals of coding to elementary and middle school students. While I plan on developing my project more before then, I’m excited to take advantage of the opportunity to actually make a difference. Overall, I had a lot of great conversations with the people that came by. Below is some documentation on a few of my visitors enjoying Girl Code!
Jason Farman, Director of DCC playing Girl Code.
A good friend stopping by, learning about iterative loops on level 2.
DCC Capstone: Girl Code 