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THE Journal
A recent computer science addition to the College Board's Advanced Placement course offerings has seen wild success decades after the nonprofit originally introduced the subject in its college-level high school offerings. In 2016-2017, when the AP Computer Science Principles course was offered for the first time, it was intended as a precursor to a more intensive Computer Science A course, which focuses on Java coding. That program, available since 1983, had grown to just under 58,000 students by 2016.
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Education World
With an estimated 75 percent of jobs over the next decade predicted to demand skills linked to STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), it's more important than ever for educators to inspire and engage a love for these often challenging subjects. Check out these fun and engaging STEM activities that are simple to put into practice in the classroom.
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Cue is Wonder Workshop's most sophisticated robot to date. With enhanced sensors, faster processors, and an all new app that enables young coders to transition from block-based coding to text-based Javascript programming, Cue is the perfect solution for middle school educators interested in taking coding and robotics to the next level.
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Denver Business Journal
Google Inc. showed off its new Boulder offices on Wednesday, letting the media tour the pair of 100,000-square-foot buildings the online giant moved its 800 local workers into Dec. 4. The space, off 30th and Pearl streets, is where the company plans to expand to employ 1,500 people after a third building on the property is built. "It's an opportunity to grow locally," said Scott Green, Google's site director in Boulder "and it improves our collaboration."
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THE Journal
Sony has unveiled a new coding, robotics and design kit, the Koov educator kit, for use in schools. Koov features more than 300 building blocks and accessories, including various sensors, motors, LEDs and more that students can use to design working robots. The Koov App includes more than 30 hours of educational content for teachers in its learning course section, which focuses on concepts related to the different electrical components in the kit and instructions on using Scratch to code and control robots. The kits include lesson plans, teacher guides, student progress reports and class management features.
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CU Columbia Spectator
The number of Columbia students caught cheating in computer science classes has grown in recent years, according to professors — a trend that raises concerns about the decreasing value of academic integrity among students and that could threaten the reputation of the department and the University. Professors point to specialized software that has made it increasingly easy to detect cheating in programming assignments to account for the rise in the number of students caught. Meanwhile, plagiarism itself may not be an issue unique to the department.
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Deseret News
She's the daughter of political refugees, a graduate of both the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and Yale Law. In 2010, she became the first Indian-American to ever run for congress, and growing up she hated math and science. Recently, Reshma Saujani, the founder and CEO of girlswhocode.org helped Utah's STEM Action Center launch a statewide initiative aimed at preparing girls and young women for the job opportunities of the future. Saujani pointed out to the 200 or so Utah seventh- through 12th-grade girls gathered at Dell EMC's office in south Salt Lake County Thursday morning that the technology they likely use everyday, from companies like Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, all have a shared trait.
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Indianapolis Business Journal
The Indiana House Ways and Means Committee passed a bill that would require all Indiana public high schools to offer computer science elective courses to students by 2021. The bill also requires, starting in 2021, K-12 public schools to include computer science in their curriculum. The bill passed the committee unanimously and heads to the full House for possible amendments and votes. The legislation is an "important bill for the students of Indiana," said bill author state Sen. Jeff Raatz, R-Centerville.
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Mental Floss
Mattel wants to help 10 million kids learn to code by 2020, and the toy giant is enlisting one of its most career-focused assets: Barbie. According to Engadget, Mattel is working with the coding education company Tynker to make seven Barbie-themed computer programming lessons. Barbie has been a pilot, an architect, the president, and a computer engineer, so there may be no better character to teach kids the joys of coding. The lessons, arriving in summer 2018, will be designed for youngsters in kindergarten and up, and will teach Barbie-lovers more than just how to make apps.
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The National
You've seen apps and toys that promise to teach your child to code. Now enter the robots. At the CES electronics show in January, coding robots came out in force. One convention hall area was packed with everything from chip-embedded, alphabet-like coding blocks to turtle-like tanks that draw on command. Of course, no one can really say how well these coding bots teach kids, or even whether learning to code is the essential life skill that so many in the tech industry claim. After all, by the time today's elementary-school kids are entering the workforce, computers may well be programming themselves.
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