"We prepare students to engage in the world that is and to help bring about a world that ought to be."
Curriculum Detail
Faculty
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Chupzi LemaTeacher - Computer Science, Engineering and DesignGeorgia Institute of Technology - BS
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Computer Science, Engineering and Design
The Computer Science, Engineering and Design program at Friends promotes the concepts of computer science, design engineering, as well as digital citizenship and wellness. Students create with a variety of coding platforms, languages, and design media. Each middle school grade takes one trimester of Creative Computing in a year with the exception of Grade 6 which has two trimesters.
Computer science empowers students with the skills of computational thinking, which include:
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decomposition – breaking down a complex problem or system into smaller, more manageable parts
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pattern recognition – looking for similarities among and within problems
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abstraction – focusing on the important information only, ignoring irrelevant detail
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algorithms – developing a step-by-step solution to the problem or the rules to solve the problem
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Friends Seminary actively promotes diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism in all its programs and operations, including admissions, financial aid, hiring, and all facets of the educational experience. To form a community which strives to reflect the world’s diversity, we do not discriminate on the basis of race or color, religion, nationality, ethnicity, economic background, physical ability, sex, gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation. Friends Seminary is an equal opportunity employer.
Friends Seminary — the oldest continuously operated, coeducational school in NYC — serves college-bound day students in Kindergarten-Grade 12.
