<story><title>CS Unplugged: Computer Science Without a Computer</title><url>https://csunplugged.org/en/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>csours</author><text>Inspired by this, I led a group of 5th graders and high school students through a &amp;quot;peanut butter and jelly sandwich robot&amp;quot; exercise.&lt;p&gt;I had a blast and so did the kids.&lt;p&gt;We had them list some steps to make a pb&amp;amp;j sandwich, and then I, as the robot acted the steps out as literally as possible.&lt;p&gt;When they said &amp;quot;gather materials&amp;quot;, I went around the room and picked up erasers, markers, water bottles; whatever I could find.&lt;p&gt;When they said &amp;quot;put the knife in the peanut butter&amp;quot; I stabbed the (plastic) knife through the cardboard seal.&lt;p&gt;When they said &amp;quot;put the peanut butter on the bread&amp;quot;, I put the jar of peanut butter on a slice of bread.&lt;p&gt;After all of that we showed a video of an industrial robot applying sealant, just like we spread the peanut butter and jelly.&lt;p&gt;At the end we asked how we could have done it better, and one of the kids said &amp;quot;Get a smarter robot&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d highly recommend doing something like this for a STEM day, or just for fun.</text></comment>
<story><title>CS Unplugged: Computer Science Without a Computer</title><url>https://csunplugged.org/en/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mukuro</author><text>I heard that many CS majors in India have never used a computer, some of them have impressive theoretical knowledge and become successful in real jobs.</text></comment>