Sean M. Arnold

@seanmarnold.bsky.social

Parent + Educator

Here are some photos from the Staten Island Battle of the Boroughs Minecraft Challenge semi-finals on Saturday. We crowned the finalists for the first borough this year. Four more to go. A huge shoutout to all the staff support

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#CSEdWeek event where we had parents & students coding along to create music, fashion, explore AI, and design bridges physically and in Minecraft. The conversations with these kids and family members got really deep into pondering the future and the role of technology in their lives.

Mother and daughter holding a certificateYoung girl, smiling by a computerGirl, smiling next to a computerYoung girl with a certificate on the screen

So my brain is broken, so I just wrote up code for an activity that is really just the dance moves to something I wanted to learn. It scratched an itch I had. Bonus points if you can guess the dance/song.

a page filled with python code
def hit_book():
  """Performs "hit book"."""
  print("Hit book")
  time.sleep(0.5)  # Simulate time

def attention():
  """Performs "attention"."""
  print("Lean right")
  time.sleep(0.5)
  print("Sway around left")
  time.sleep(0.5)

def arms_out_in():
  """Performs "arms out and in"."""
  print("Arms out")
  time.sleep(0.5)
  print("Arms in")
  time.sleep(0.5)

def pas_de_bourree():
  """Performs "pas de bourree"."""
  for _ in range(2):  # Repeat twice
    print("Right")
    print("Left")
    print("Right")
    print("Left")
    time.sleep(0.5)
def jump_in():
  """Performs the "jump in" ."""
  print("Step front together")
  print("Hop on left")
  time.sleep(0.5)
  print("Step right")
  time.sleep(0.5)

def wobble_turn():
  """Performs "wobble turn"."""
  print("Wobble turn")
  time.sleep(1)  # Simulate the time taken for the turn

def chasse_back():
  """Performs "chasse back"."""
  print("One foot jump back")
  print("Arms out")
  time.sleep(0.5)

def scuff_chug():
  """Performs "scuff chug"."""
  print("Scuff chug")
  time.sleep(0.5)

def step():
  """Performs a single step."""
  print("Step")
  time.sleep(0.5)
# Perform the dance routine
for _ in range(4):  # Repeat
  hit_book()

attention()
arms_out_in()
pas_de_bourree()
jump_in()
wobble_turn()
step()  # Step left
step()  # Step right
chasse_back()
scuff_chug()
step()