The Computational Thinking Club

at Stanford OHS

In 2018, I founded The Computational Thinking Club, which is targeted at students in all disciplines, and focuses on practicing computational thinking: conceptualizing problems in ways that allow a computer to assist with solving them. Our tool is the Wolfram Language, a computer language which is best known as the main component of the software Mathematica and the backbone of Wolfram Alpha. As a promoter of computational thinking and the Wolfram Language at the OHS, I worked with Stephen Wolfram and Christian Rodriguez of Computational Thinking Initiatives, in order to empower computational thinking among OHS students. Club members are already using the Wolfram Language to create word clouds of assigned class readings and share these images for use in class slides and discussions.