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EdSurge
AP Computer Science is getting a facelift — or rather, an entirely new face. The College Board has announced that this fall it will launch a new Advanced Placement course in computer science: AP Computer Science Principles, a program that the organization hopes will engage more females and students of color in computer science.
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Forbes
When in high school and preparing for a career in computer science, a few things come to mind that might be helpful. First, you need to make sure that you can get into the major. That is an increasingly nontrivial challenge. If you get into elite schools like the Ivies or Stanford/Duke/MIT, you shouldn't have a problem choosing your own major. But at many public universities, it is increasingly hard to get into CS because of the sheer demand by incoming undergrads.
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The Hechinger Report
As a first-year teacher at Antheil Elementary School in Ewing, New Jersey, one of Linda Hoffman's favorite moments is when her third grade students have an "aha" moment. Even at a young age, Linda's students relish the thrill of solving a math or science problem and coming to a creative, exciting solution. For Linda, the "aha" moment is familiar — she herself experienced it last year when she was a student at Rider University's TEACH first class program. After a career in market research, Hoffman heard the calling to teach after volunteering in her own children's school.
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University Herald
Companies are giving back to the community by developing apps that incorporate fun and coding. Recently, another company has created a coding app for girls as young as 4 years old. Fortune reported that GoldieBlox has launched a coding app for kids, most especially girls. The Oakland-based company is known for making construction toys for girls via a 2012 Kickstarter campaign.
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Times Record
Robotics and computer science programs for three local school districts through the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith received nearly $2 million recently. The award was the most received by any educational institution in the state from the Arkansas Department of Higher Education, according to a university news release. Employees from industry partners like Baldor Electric Co. and Hickory Springs Manufacturing, will serve as mentors to students participating in the coursework.
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THE Journal
In an effort to protect student information, Code.org has erased the email addresses of millions of students taking its online courses and will no longer request email addresses from students. The Code Studio on Code.org has more than 10 million student accounts in its system. The platform was originally designed so that students under the age of 13 could use their email to login and never have their email addresses sent to Code.org servers. Now, the same approach is being expanded to include all students, even adults, and all student email addresses have been erased.
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The Epoch Times
Kids are amazing at learning new technologies. They can learn to use smartphones or tablets before they are able to talk. But merely using new technologies does not enable them to get creative as well. "It's almost as if they can read but not write with new technologies," said the MIT professor Mitchel Resnick during his 2013 TED Talk. He heads the Lifelong Kindergarten Group, which develops new technologies for creativity at MIT’s Media Lab.
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U.S. News & World Report
As a sick child suffering from severe asthma, Indian national Tvisha Gangwani says her parents never pressured her to focus on academics. She got by with average grades — except in math and science, where she excelled. One math teacher, who became her mentor, saw Gangwani's potential and encouraged her to pursue science, technology, engineering and math, the so-called STEM fields. She followed this advice and enrolled at the University of Southern California, where she is now pursuing a bachelor's in electrical engineering with a minor in math. Gangwani is among the growing number of female international students pursuing STEM degrees at American universities.
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