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Use an activity that introduces minimal spanning trees by having students determine the minimum number of roads to pave between houses.

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Have students find the best method of sorting a group of unknown weights to teach them about sorting algorithms.

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Have students act as elements walking through a network to sort themselves to teach students about how Sorting Networks function.

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Use physical activities to demonstrate sorting algorithms and help students build intuition about how these algorithms work.

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Organize a game in which students in a circle need to obtain their assigned item by passing the items between empty-handed neighbors to interactively demonstrate deadlock.

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Have students play a game of Telephone and trace the path of a message to introduce how computers create phylogenetic trees.

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Direct students in an activity to find Treasure Island by sailing from one island node to another to help them conceptualize finite-state machines.

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Organize an activity in which one student gives other students precise instructions for how to draw a certain picture to teach students how a computer executes code.

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Have some students act as robots while their peers give them instructions to teach students how to interact with and think like machines.

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Have students color maps using the fewest number of colors while ensuring that bordering countries are different colors to expose them to optimization problems.

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