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Education DIVE
Aside from preparing students to be productive citizens, public education's chief role was once to also prepare the bulk of young people for blue-collar work in manufacturing, retail and other industries. But as the labor market in those areas shrinks due to automation, coding is likely to rise in their stead. Both the Obama and Trump administrations have recognized this in their own ways, with the latter announcing a new initiative to pump $200 million in annual grants into STEM education that will be paired with an additional $300 million from companies including Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.
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Wyoming Public Media
As Wyoming's energy industry continues to stay relatively stagnant, state leaders have been looking at alternate ways to boost the state's economy. Gov. Matt Mead is hoping technology will become a vibrant part of Wyoming's economy, alongside energy, agriculture and tourism. And this message has caught on. In June the Joint Education Committee requested that the Wyoming Department of Education convene a Computer Science Education Task Force, to look at what it would take to prepare Wyoming students to be leaders in the technology field.
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Wonder Workshop invites teams aged 6-8 and 9-12 to compete in the Wonder League Robotics Competition. Three rounds of missions require teams to design solutions to real-world science and technology challenges by programming Dash & Dot. Teams who become eligible for the Invitational Round compete for a $5,000 STEM-grant Grand Prize!
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IEEE Spectrum
Recently, the White House announced $200 million in federal funding to improve K-12 computer science education every year. Soon after, tech leaders including Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce added another $300 million to the bag, spread over five years. The goal of that initiative is to support K-12 STEM education, focusing on computer science.
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The Associated Press via Los Angeles Times
President Donald Trump directed his education secretary to prioritize science and technology education and spend at least $200 million annually on competitive grants so schools can broaden access to computer science education in particular. Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and senior White House advisor on workforce issues, told reporters that it is vital that students, especially girls and racial minorities, learn how to write computer code and study computer science.
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Science Magazine
It's not easy to teach a subject in which you have no training. But Kristen Haubold, a computer science teacher at James Whitcomb Riley High School in South Bend, Indiana, was up for the challenge. Haubold arrived at Riley 5 years ago as a math teacher after graduating from Indiana University in Bloomington. A year later, Indiana began developing a new computer science requirement for elementary and high school students, and Haubold signed up for the course that the state was offering. She also began looking around for resources to create a curriculum that would meet the new standard, which Indiana officials finalized earlier this year.
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Orlando Sentinel
Olivia Lochmandy likes to create. She and her twin brother produce a web show about video games and the 14-year-old also performs music under the name O-Sky at venues on the Space Coast. But using code to create video games is something of a newfound skill for the home-school student, one she picked up early this year. At a hackathon last weekend, she honed some of her development skills alongside professionals. "It's about being in a room with these game developers who really know what they are doing," she said. "Even though I know some of it, it's not the same as working with a team and working with professionals."
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Engadget
Snapchat is teaming up with Google's Made With Code initiative to try and encourage teenagers to get into computer science. Teens aged 13-18 can build a Snapchat geofilter with Google's Blockly coding system for kids, then submit it to win a trip to the TEDWomen conference in New Orleans and mentoring sessions from Google and Snapchat engineers to create a Lens, an augmented reality filter for your photos. The five finalists' Lenses will be judged at the conference for a chance to go live in the Snapchat app, along with a trip to Los Angeles for a private tour of the Snap, Inc. and Google offices.
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