Woodland’s second grade students continue their study of immigration through a combined project, a West Coast Immigration play inspired by the book, Landed, by Milly Lee and the creation of robot dolls who spoke personal stories of immigration, Each student designed and programmed a talking doll which integrated their study of immigration with a combination of skills they have been learning all year in design and tech – design, engineering, making, coding, cyber security, and technology safety and ethics. Each student interviewed a relative to learn more about the first immigrant in their family to come to the United States. Students created dolls using conductive and non-conductive materials. They used Scratch (a visual programming language where students snap together blocks of code) to create a database of recordings using the answers from the interview and wrote code to play each recording. They connected their doll to a Makey Makey (an invention kit that that turns any conductive material into a touchpad controller) and made their doll talk by touching the conductive parts of the doll. Students shared their robot dolls with their families and friends following their West Coach Immigration play performance.