Kasia Derza
Mariano Azuela Elem School STEM Educator
Chicago, IL
K-8 STEM Educator at Mariano Azuela Elementary School in Chicago Public Schools with 8 years of teaching experience. Apple Teacher and Apple Distinguished Educator Class of 2017. Michigan State University STEM and Leadership Fellow. Computer Science 4 All ambassador.
In K-5 grade classrooms students work on coding, creating with robots, tinker toys, inventing and Everyone Can Create curriculum by Apple. In middle grades, students engage in PLTW curriculum, Everyone Can Code Apple Swift Playgrounds programming, and App Design Challenges. Students use robots such as Dash, Dot, Sphero, Parrot Drones, and few others and VEX Robotics and use Swift language to program them.