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THE Journal
The Computer Science Teachers Association has launched the Cyber Teacher Certificate professional development program designed to train teachers in cybersecurity education. According to a statistical research survey commissioned by Raytheon, approximately one in four millennials is interested in a career in cybersecurity. However, the survey also "revealed inadequate technology education, which inhibits young adults from getting interested in and pursuing careers in computer science, including cybersecurity."
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Fast Company
"Computer science is the new literacy," says Vandana Sikka, who heads up the Infosys Foundation, the charitable wing of Infosys. That's why the organization is partnering with the National Science Foundation to invest $6 million to train 2,000 teachers around the country in computer science. It is also matching community donations toward computer science training at particular schools made on the platform DonorsChoose.org. (In poorer school districts that cannot provide training, this gives teachers the opportunity to raise money themselves through crowdfunding.)
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Education Week
In the wake of musical icon Prince's untimely death last week, the world is hearing reminders of the artist's inestimable contributions to the music industry — and also learning about some of his quieter contributions outside of it. As Van Jones, the CNN commentator and friend and lawyer to Prince, explained at the 20th Anniversary Essence Festival in 2014, Prince was the driving force behind an inititative called #YesWeCode.
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EdTech Magazine
When the astronauts of the future require a replacement part, 3-D printers will step in to fill the void. And thanks to the Star Trek™ Replicator Challenge, the students of today will understand that process first-hand. The Future Engineers challenge — named after a piece of Starfleet technology that generates matter at the push of a button — asks K-12 students to design 3-D printable objects that will allow deep-space travelers of the year 2050 to eat nutritious meals during their journeys.
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The Associated Press via Jackson Free Press
Greene County School Superintendent Charles Breland sees the need for more Mississippians trained in computer science. A former technology coordinator in the rural southeast Mississippi district, he said that his school system has struggled to hire a computer technician itself. That's one reason Breland is excited about a new state effort to increase computer science instruction in schools. A total of 34 districts will send 167 elementary school and 68 high school teachers for training this summer, in the first phase of a plan to increase learning about computers in all grades.
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Takepart
Reading, writing and arithmetic — for centuries, the three Rs have been seen as the basic foundational skills needed to function in society. Now, a new petition to Congress is giving a signal boost to the modern-day push to add computer science to the essential public school curriculum. Seattle-based nonprofit Code.org and the Computer Science Education Coalition, a national consortium of businesses and nonprofits, asked Congress to allocate $250 million in federal funding for "every student in every school to have an opportunity to learn computer science."
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Military Times
Four years after graduating from the University of Washington, Audra Linsenmayer began to realize that the job opportunities were few for someone who had majored in English and psychology, as she had. She was working as a contractor at Amazon.com, editing children's books and comic books for the company's Kindle, when Web developers there suggested she look into a degree in computer science at Western Washington University, the Seattle Times reported.
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KARK-TV
More schools are including "coding" in their curriculum, and the students are younger than ever. Nine-year-old Isabelle Visser loves to "play" on the computer, but her classwork is no ordinary game. She is learning how to code! "There's a bunch of characters and you learn how to speak a different language in computer," she says. Her classmate Sophia agrees, coding is pretty cool. "It's fun and hard sometimes, but it's mostly fun," says fellow third grader Sophia Puente.
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