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Culturally relevant and sustaining implementations of computing education are increasingly leveraging young learners' passion for sports as a platform for building interest in different STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) concepts. Numerous disciplines spanning physics, engineering, data science, and especially AI based computing are not only authentically used in professional sports in today's world, but can also be productively introduced to introduce young learnres to these disciplines and facilitate deep engagement with the same in the context of sports. In this work, we present a curriculum that includes a constellation of proprietary apps and tools we show student athletes learning sports like basketball and soccer that use AI methods like pose detection and IMU-based gesture detection to track activity and provide feedback. We also share Scratch extensions which enable rich access to sports related pose, object, and gesture detection algorithms that youth can then tinker around with and develop their own sports drill applications. We present early findings from pilot implementations of portions of these tools and curricula, which also fostered discussion relating to the failings, risks, and social harms associated with many of these different AI methods – noticeable in professional sports contexts, and relevant to youths' lives as active users of AI technologies as well as potential future creators of the same. 

This work is part of an ongoing Sports, Technology, and Learning class where computer science students and student-athletes learn different aspects of technological development, ideation, design, and prototyping in the context of sports technologies. Alongside developing these technical skills, this class also takes advantage of various media related to sports to examine and discuss utilizing such media as a contextualizing factor in deciding what to build and why. Media depictions of sports and the role of technology in the creation of narratives and innovation is an often under-examined way of furthering understandings about the social construction of numerous phenomena like race, gender, and ability. In this poster, we present and discuss a pilot assignment using Critical Media Literacy (CML) tenets as an explicit tool for engaging with media discussions in class and how it can impact learners' understandings and practices around technology ideation, design, and critique. As the students engage with the media collected for the course, such as films & television, conference & journal articles, and sports journalism, they engage people outside of the class with course content and document the engagements in an assortment of formats (e.g., writing, podcasting, videos, drawings, etc.). The discussions continue throughout the quarter, aiming to develop the student's awareness of a context at the intersection of sports and technology that will inform their final design projects. 

Around the world, many K-12 school systems are seeking ways to provide youth with computer science (CS) learning experiences. Often organizations aim to develop these opportunities by building capacity among science, technology, engineering, and mathematics teachers. In other instances, school may engage with language arts, history, and library teachers to teach computer science content. Seldom, however, do schools leverage the rich opportunities for integrating computer science with physical education (PE). This paper explores an on-going partnership among university researchers, and elementary school coding and PE teachers. During spring of 2021, the group designed and tested coding and physical movement related activities for students to complete across their PE and coding classes. The team iterated on those activities throughout 2021 and 2022. This paper highlights the utility of this unique collaboration and describes some of the initial designs that emerged. The paper also touches on preliminary evaluation of the activities, and notes some of the project team's plans for future iterations. Broadly speaking, the activities piqued student interest and helped advance new perspectives of themselves, CS, and their teachers.