Opportunities
Activities for Youth
Preparing you to step into the opportunities the digital world has to offer.
MEET
Alexia Hilbertidou
Facebook Community Leader Program Youth Fellow
Alexia is the Founder of GirlBoss NZ, an organization with the mission to close the gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths, Entrepreneurship and Leadership. GirlBoss NZ empowers confident, resilient, future-ready, young women to lead and change the world.
Exploring Careers in Computer Programming
Use this activity to explore careers in technology and the skills needed.
Unplugged: What’s Your Function
Play a game that is both fun and teaches you to use functions.
Unplugged: Keeping Score
Grab a friend for a game of rock, paper, scissors, and get ready for creative coding by learning to identify variables.
Unplugged: Design Thinking
Explore how you can use a specific framework for thinking purposefully about design, and create things that can help other people or make the world a better place!
Unplugged: What’s Your Function and Crazy Conditionals
Consider learning about algorithms and exploring what opportunities the future holds.
VOCABULARY
Learn the lingo
Function
Function
A mathematical correspondence that assigns exactly one element of one set to each element of the same or another set
Conditionals
Conditionals
True only for certain values of the variables or symbols involved
Algorithm
Algorithm
A process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer
Framework
Framework
A basic conceptual structure of ideas
