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Education Week
More girls than ever took an AP computer-science exam this year, Seattle nonprofit Code.org, calling the results "incredible." Code.org crunched the numbers from the AP College Board, which shows that 29,708 girls in the U.S. took an Advanced Placement computer science exam this year, more than double the number from 2016. Girls made up about 27 percent of the 111,262 students who took an AP computer-science exam in 2017.
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NPR
The First Global Challenge, a highly anticipated robotics competition for 15- to 18-year-olds from 157 countries, ended the way it began — with controversy. Recently, members of the team from the violence-torn east African country of Burundi went missing. And well before the competition even began, the teams from Gambia and Afghanistan made headlines after the U.S. State Department denied the members visas. Eventually, they were allowed to compete.
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EdScoop News
Obama-era policy wonks and advocates are trying to keep a major initiative from the previous administration alive by promoting computer science education throughout the country. While President Donald Trump has virtually ignored the Office of Science and Technology Policy, leaving the White House agency without a director and several key leadership positions, a former OSTP senior policy adviser under President Barack Obama has helped take the CSforAll initiative to a new level.
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Centre Daily Times
A computer-generated glove created by a group of postgraduate Penn State students was featured Tuesday morning during a summer camp session aimed to get local girls more familiar with computer science. The glove, which helps the visually impaired navigate through vibration censors connected to a wearable camera, was tested by the primarily middle school-aged girls participating in the inaugural Computer Science Camp for Girls, hosted by Penn State's Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The mission, according to school Director Tom La Porta, is to help attract more women to computer science programs.
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Mic Network Inc.
In our digital world, it makes perfect sense that many nations need computer science majors. But few such countries need them as badly as the United States, a place that's paradoxically home to some of the world's biggest tech companies and yet doesn't have enough people studying computer science to fill those jobs. The U.S. will have 1 million open computing jobs by 2024, according to a recent report by the App Association. In 2013, the Obama Administration issued a similar statistic estimating that there would be 1.4 million computer science jobs even sooner — by 2020 — but fewer than 400,000 people will graduate with the right skills to fill them.
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THE Journal
Codeverse, which bills itself as the world’s first interactive classroom and technology platform designed to teach coding to kids 6 to 12, officially opened its flagship studio in Chicago today. The studio is at 819 W. Eastman St. in Lincoln Park. Codeverse has designed a coding language, KidScript, which empowers children to build games, apps and projects, as well as program a number of objects at the Codeverse studio. KidScript takes its inspiration from many other coding languages, including JavaScript, Visual Basic, Python and Ruby
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EdTech Times
This spring, a cheating scandal permeated the computer science department at Harvard University. About 10 percent of the students in the school's renowned Computer Science 50 course — around 60 out of a little over 630 — were suspected of cheating, referred to the school’s honor council for review, and exposed to the possibility that they could be expelled for their actions. This isn't the first dilemma of its kind at a prestigious Ivy League school, but it still says something important about higher education and computer science: that either students are pursuing STEM-related fields without having any real interest or skills in them, or that the pressure to get good grades is pushing even the highest academic achievers to cut corners. Maybe both.
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Business Insider
Pretty soon, the Girl Scouts may be as well known for prepping girls for careers in robotics and software coding as it is for its cookies. The American youth organization is expanding its STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — program. Soon the organization's 1.8 million scouts will be able to earn badges in robotics, coding, engineering and cybersecurity.
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Wired
High-school girls are taking more Advanced Placement computer engineering exams than ever before, according to a new report from Code.org and the College Board. In 2017, largely thanks to a new test aimed at expanding the reach of engineering classes, female participation in these AP tests increased at a faster rate than young boys' participation on the exam in 2017. For women hoping to have careers in computer engineering, this kind of early training can make all the difference. The field of computer science is growing so fast it outpaces all other occupations in the U.S. It's great work if you can get it. In fact, 70 percent of students who take this AP exam say they want to work in computer science. Trouble is, it's mostly white or Asian men who land these high-paying jobs.
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