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EdSurge (commentary)
Sheena Vaidyanathan, a contributor for EdSurge, writes: "During the summer, I taught a computer science course for educators at the Krause Center for Innovation at Foothill College. Funded by Google's CS4HS grant, this was a four-day intensive 'crash course' for 60 teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Within that group were science teachers who decided to spend their summer break learning how to incorporate computer science into their classes. This would not only engage their students in science topics, but more importantly, it would bring many of the Next Generation Science Standards practices to life."
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Windows Central
Just over a year after it first launched, Minecraft: Education Edition now sports more than two million users. According to Microsoft, the milestone comes as Minecraft: Education Edition is available in 115 countries around the world with more than 250 educator-created lesson plans. By contrast, Minecraft: Education Edition initially launched in 50 countries around the globe.
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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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AMERICANINNO
As Chicago's innovation scene continues to grow, tech employers should have plenty of fresh talent to choose from, according to a new report, which shows the number of local STEM graduates, and computer science grads specifically, is skyrocketing. The report, published today by the Illinois Science & Technology Coalition and LinkedIn, shows that Illinois is now the second largest producer of computer science graduates in the country, awarding nearly 10 percent of the nation's computer science degrees. And from 2012 to 2016, Illinois rose from 43rd to ninth when ranked among states who had the highest number of STEM field graduates overall.
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Casper Star-Tribune Online
Lawmakers advanced one bill to cut roughly $16 million from Wyoming schools and another to add computer science to the educational program Tuesday in what was almost certainly the last Joint Education Committee meeting for the next several months. The meeting — which also saw lawmakers shoot down two bills — brings to a close an arduous interim for one of the several committees working to solve the state's education funding crisis. Though the shortfall facing Wyoming's schools has lessened significantly compared to this time last year, the hole is still more than $340 million for day-to-day operations alone for the 2019 and 2020 fiscal years.
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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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Miami Herald
HTML. JavaScript. CSS. Computer coding was a mysterious language to Emma Barragan when she was 10. "When I first started learning to code, I thought 'What's the secret?'" she said. Now at age 13, Emma, has cracked some of the main tech language. Even more, over the past three years, she has learned to turn computer science into a creative endeavor through a local nonprofit called CodeArt. "I really enjoy it," said Emma, of Coconut Grove. "I was surprised to see what I could do."
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WABE
After the bell rings at Lanier High School in Buford, Georgia, Michael Reilly asks to see his students' faces, because most are hidden behind computer screens. Reilly is a technology teacher at the Center for Digital Technology at Lanier High School, where he teaches an elective class called Programming, Games, Apps and Society. Students work in teams or individually at their own pace to build their own apps for Android phones this semester.
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TechCrunch
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has been incredibly successful at sparking all sorts of creativity via its low cost microcomputers, which arrived in the market back in 2012. Its core electronics are also indirectly responsible for U.K.-based learn-to-code startups like Kano and pi-top, which have built devices and VC-backed businesses atop Pi.
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The Incline
For nearly 90 minutes, Jerome McCree Jr. sat intensely working at his laptop in conference room at Google's offices in Larimer. The Serra Catholic High School sophomore is one of eight local students in the All Star Code Google After-School Program, a new pilot project between the summer intensive program and the tech giant.
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THE Journal
Girls Who Code will be reaching an additional thousand girls this summer with accelerated versions of its coding lessons. "Girls Who Code Campus," as the new program is called, will kick off in six cities for middle and high school students. Over two weeks, participants will get deep dives into the topic of their choice: computer science, website design and development, wearable tech and fashion design, or iPhone app development.
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PBS NewsHour
At an after school STEM club in Rhode Island, students are working on an engineering challenge — because they want to be. The low-stakes, fun environment offers time for exploration when resources or hands-on activities may be in short supply during school hours, and can help sustain interest as classes get harder.
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