Looking for a meaningful, hands-on end-of-year activity that builds classroom community AND introduces coding? This Binary Code Compliment Project combines social-emotional learning (SEL) with STEM as students create a personalized keychain or necklace for a classmate using binary code! Students will: π Randomly select a classmate π Choose a positive character trait that represents them π Encode the trait into binary code (5-bit or 8-bit options!) π Create a wearable gift using beads