Loudoun Country Day School (LCDS) is an accredited, independent, non-profit, preschool through eighth-grade school in Loudoun County, Virginia, that was founded in 1953 and has been awarded “best independent school” multiple times.
Infinitive partnered with LCDS to teach middle school students how to program an Amazon Alexa device. The idea was born from Infinitive’s college internship STEM program that trained interns to create an Alexa skill for a client. During the spring of 2020, 7th graders began virtually programming basic Alexa skills with facts about the school due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This year the same class of students, now in 8th grade, were challenged to build an Alexa skill that would help supplement study material for one of their classes. The curriculum promoted real-world situations, such as consulting, problem solving, cloud computing, and programming commands in Alexa.