Press-a-Poem

Instructions

Touch the gold button next to a poem you want to hear AND touch a START button with the other hand.

Makey Makey Poetry Board

Our Poetry Board and the code that powers it

If you do not have the touch board you can use the keyboard instead.  Press the green flag.  Then press one of these keys to hear a poem:

    • left arrow
    • right arrow
    • up arrow
    • down arrow
    • space bar
    • the “A” key
    • To stop the poem press the “S” key or

To stop the poem, press the red STOP sign on the screen  above.

 

 

Code for GWC Norfolk Poetry Board

Our Poetry Board Code

Credits

This project was created by Girls Who Code Norfolk, Slover Library. We are a group of middle and high school girls who develop our coding skills while creating community service projects.

We made this project using Scratch block-based programming language, a Makey Makey board, and an illustrated poster board.

The poems are recited by us, and we coded the sound effects. The poems were written by Kenn Nesbitt, Former Children’s Poet Laureate (2013-15), from his collection on Poetry4kids.com.  The poems were coded by Mackenzie, Lauren, Faith, Sasha, Soleil, and MiKenzie.