Birthday Cake

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Students learn coding and Computer Aided Design with BlocksCAD, a free online software designed specifically for teaching students these essential skills. With BlocksCAD, students get hands-on experience designing a 3D Birthday Cake using shapes, translation, and radial loops to develop computational thinking. This innovative approach enables students to construct something that can be 3D printed, making learning coding and Computer Aided Design fun and engaging. The Birthday Cake Activity is ideal for 5th-8th grade students with prior BlocksCAD experience, offering a challenging yet rewarding project that promotes creativity and problem-solving skills. Teachers can create a free trial of the BlocksCAD for Education platform to access exclusive features, including class creation with unique join codes and student work management.