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eSchool News
A new initiative announced at the White House's Summit on Computer Science Education aims to give every student from kindergarten through high school in-demand computer science skills many employers say they want, but cannot find, in today's young workers. The nonprofit CSNYC announced the launch of the CSforAll Consortium, a national organization formed in reaction to the growing computer science education community, bipartisan support for CS, and President Barack Obama's call to action to give every student access to computer science education.
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U.S. News & World Report
One hundred and fifty students descended on a brand-new 200,000-square-foot computer programming facility Wednesday in Silicon Valley — the first wave of students to enroll in 42 USA, a computer coding program aiming to shake up the market. It costs the students nothing — it's bankrolled with $100 million by the French billionaire Xavier Niel, the creator of Free, the internet and cell phone service company in Europe. Three years ago in Paris, Niel launched the first 42, named after the mysterious number at the heart of the book, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Anyone from the age of 18 to 30 can enroll in the program, which takes three to five years to complete, regardless of whether they have a degree or any previous experience coding.
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eSchool News
With a shout out from the White House, the efforts to teach computer coding to more Kanawha County girls expanded, with plans for an initiative that started with just female students to further grow and, eventually, expand beyond women and Kanawha's borders. Ysabel Bombardiere, the volunteer instructor for a girls coding group that started early this year at the West Virginia University Extension Service office in Kanawha City, said she's started a new initiative, called Project Code Nodes, that will add — atop the Kanawha City group, where a new session of meetings started last month — three new free coding groups based in downtown Charleston, Institute and Rand.
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eSchool News
While the iPhone 7 has everyone buzzing, another Apple announcement caught educators' interest–Apple introduced a new coding curriculum, Everyone Can Code, which aims to teach anyone to code with a new app called Swift Playgrounds. Swift lets users write code on the left side of their screen and see what they're creating with it on the right. With the new Swift Playgrounds app, students can solve puzzles and control characters with real code. It also offers an app development guide for students who are ready to build their own app.
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Chalkbeat New York
The city has raised $20 million to spread computer science education across New York City, reaching the halfway mark of its private fundraising goal, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced. The mayor's "Computer Science for All" program is one his flashiest education initiatives. It's a pledge to give all of New York City's 1.1 million public school students access to computer science education in elementary, middle and high school by 2025.
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EdSurge (commentary)
Hadi Partovi, a contributor for EdSurge, writes: "I recently read Stephen Wolfram's blog post about the need to teach computational thinking in schools. While I don't agree that the Wolfram Language is superior to every other modern programming language, from C and Java to Python and Scratch, I think he makes some very compelling points. Some of his writing stretched my thinking in new directions."
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THE Journal
A new, online platform offers three engaging "experiences," or activities, that highlight the work of American scientists and technologists. The National Science and Technology Medals Foundation, an organization that works to fight discrimination in STEM, launched The Lab to inspire the next generation of scientists.
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Engadget
Three brightly colored boxes sit in the middle of the table. Alex Klein, co-founder and CEO of Kano, takes the yellow one and pops open the lid, revealing an array of small plastic parts inside. They sit neatly in the foam, begging to be plucked out and examined. A transparent case. Lenses and a flash ring. Some have a Post-it note on top, the word "best" scribbled in biro. Klein chuckles, admitting that some of the parts "may be completely busted." I don't mind. At this point, Kano is still a few weeks out from its next Kickstarter campaign. It'll be a while before the kits are put into mass production.
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