Glenarden Library Coding workshops - Spring 2026

Welcome to the Community STEM Workshop page, run by the University of Maryland, Balloon Payload Program!

This page is dedicated documentation for materials used during the Spring 2026 coding workshops at Glenarden Branch Library

Workshop Lessons

Lesson 1: Coding Basics

In this workshop, we learned the basics of Python programming, including print, input, and conditional statements.

see the lesson slides for week 1 here
Week 1 Presentation
As well as the provided exercise for programming a decision tree

Lesson 2: Loops and Repetition

In the second workshop we recapped conditional statements and learned how to integrate repetition into our code via for and while loops.

see the lesson slides for week 2 here
Week 2 Presentation
For the final exercise, we coded a Number Guessing game in python, see the provided example code: