Teaching R to 5th graders-Middle Schoolers during the weekend has been both enlightening and humbling.
Enlightening because kids understand data with context far better than adults; perhaps because they are not encumbered by the Big Data noise and always prefer visualization over text. I’ve learned to work within the limits of their attention span (so lots of breaks) and interest, cultivating a continuous learning environment versus a competitive one, a “We” versus an “I” approach, and “humbleness” in place “arrogance”.

I, and the 5th graders/Middle Schoolers, would like to thank RStudio (Garrett Grolemund, J.J. Allaire, Hadley Wickham, Roger Oberg) and Datacamp (Nick Carchedi, Jonathan Cornelissen) for their kindness and all the help, encouragement and support in Tara’s and Ben’s journey to learning R. Thank you so much.

Here are a few of their projects:

Grade 5 Project completed for their Science Expo2016

Grade 6 STEM Project

Grade 7 STEM Project