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The Associated Press via U.S. News & World Report
Using household items such as pipe cleaners, strings and pompoms, Bryan Station High School sophomore Bailey Morgerson and his classmates built models in an advanced placement computer science class last week to understand more about how the internet works. The class is part of Kentucky's new initiative to offer courses that could produce more information technology professionals.
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KULR-TV
As the new year gets underway so are after school programs. For working parents that can't pick up their kids immediately after school and want them to finish homework or get help Boys and Girls clubs have after school programs. Students can also learn about graphics, coding and Lego robotics. The area director tells Wake Up Montana coding is taught in the computer programming classes, where kids lean about electrical engineering. That can help kids excel in their actual computer science classes.
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Wonder Workshop invites you to join thousands of teams from around the world to tackle a series of challenges that mirror the real world. Students learn to code and control Dash & Dot robots while accomplishing missions. The Grand Prize in May is a $5,000 STEM grant! Ages 6-8 and 9-12 are invited.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch
A small table near the entrance of CodeRVA, a new high school in Richmond, can fit the entirety of the school's staff. The group of six — three teachers, an executive director, an office manager and a counselor — wear matching white polo shirts as they prepare to "disrupt public education." There are no hallways in the 15,310-square-foot space located on Durham Street near the Central Virginia Food Bank and the Richmond SPCA. There's one traditional classroom in a corner, classrooms that resemble conference rooms and a few other side offices for the staff. Frankly, there isn't much in the school right now. That also goes for rules guiding the school's curriculum.
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USA Today
Google is calling on Hollywood to give equal screen time to women and minorities after a new study the Internet giant funded found that most computer scientists on television shows and in the movies are played by white men. The problem with the hackneyed stereotype of the socially inept, hoodie-clad white male coder? It does not inspire underrepresented groups to pursue careers in computer science, says Daraiha Greene, Google CS in Media program manager, multicultural strategy.
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Lose the boring coding platforms—bring coding to life with Vidcode. Vidcode teaches students how to code through their favorite hobby: video making. Get free resources today!
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WIRED
In August Google employee James Damore made the news and even Wikipedia by publishing his speculation that female software engineers are underrepresented due to inherent biological differences. Although he admitted that implicit bias and explicit bias may exist, Damore wrote, "I'm simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don't see equal representation of women in tech and leadership."
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Mashable
If you've been on the fence about taking the plunge and learning to code, this is definitely the right place and the right time. You don't have to have programming experience or go into debt earning an expensive computer science degree. You can learn what you need to know to become a well-paid developer and get a kick-ass job with The Complete Computer Science Bundle.
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Crixeo
With our increasing dependence on technology, coding has moved from a niche pursuit to a much-needed skill. Since computer programming is essentially learning (a) foreign language(s), it requires a vast amount of learning and practice. While a great many universities offer computer science degree tracks, too often the students who enroll in these programs are experiencing coding for the first time — at the collegiate level. This means that, in all likelihood, students who would've otherwise excelled in the field may be too wary to take the plunge during the ever-important college years. Or they may flounder from a lack of a foundation. The sad truth is only approximately 25 percent of middle schools and high schools offer computer science courses. While that percentage will surely continue to grow, as of now a majority of K-12 students don't experience coding in the classroom.
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