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PBS NewsHour
In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, a nationwide computer science immersion program sets up shop at a couple Virginia elementary schools.
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EdScoop News
The game-based learning platform Kahoot! is partnering with the nonprofit Code.org to launch specially curated computer science games on Kahoot's popular website and mobile app. By tapping into Kahoot's 70 million monthly active users — more than 50 percent of K-12 students in the U.S., Kahoot estimates — Code.org can further its goal of teaching more girls and underrepresented minorities to code and sparking their interest in computer science.
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Times Record
Gov. Asa Hutchinson visited Charleston students and encouraged them to consider going into computer science fields. "In the next couple years, there's going to be more than one million unfilled jobs in the computer science field across our country. Here in Arkansas, we're going to have thousands of unfilled jobs in the computer science field and a starting salary, if you've got your degree, would be about $60,000 a year," Hutchinson said to students at Charleston High School.
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EdTech Magazine
It starts with a game of Robot Turtles, a board game by Thinkfun that's being used at Hubbard Woods School in Winnetka, Illinois, to teach kindergarteners the basics of coding. "It helps explain the step-by-step nature of coding," says Todd Burleson, resource center director for this Winnetka Public Schools District 36 elementary school. The game serves as an on-ramp for students, introducing technology into their educational journeys. Within HWS and District 36's other four schools, this is the first step of a journey that will touch on coding and robotics at each grade level.
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NBC Southern California
Every day, more than a hundred students make the short trek from Virgil Middle School to the Bresee Youth Center.
It's an after school haven for homework help and sports, but also the arts and technology. "I always knew I wanted to work with the community and help out kids," said Luis Alarcon, who's now a junior at Cal State LA. He first started working at Bresee as a high school intern, and now comes every day after his college classes to teach in the tech center.
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eeNews Europe
Consumer website forthings.io is offering a new kit to encourage kids to start building electronics and to learn to code. The Piper Computer Kit is a fun and educational kit that introduces young people to electronics through the ever-popular Minecraft game. Piper was founded by Mark Pavlyukovskyy, named in "Forbes 30 under 30 in Education" in 2018 and Dr Joel Sadler, who wrote a thesis 'Enabling Novices to Prototype Electronics' whilst undertaking a computer science project at Stanford. Aimed at children aged between 8 and 14 years, the kit teaches the user how to build and program electronics, whilst undertaking Minecraft themed challenges.
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KRWG
The Village of Melrose may be small, but that hasn't stopped it's school district from competing in New Mexico's Supercomputing Challenge. For nearly a year, teams of students here in grades six through 12 have met after school to take part in a challenge trying to solve problems using computational thinking.
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