“Mr. Daemon Whittenburg from Greenway presented a career chat with our second grade students”, said Melanie Brooks, assistant principal at Carrollton Elementary.
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They’ll be learning to write computer code using several programs.
Students at Grayson code everyday. On December 7th, the programmable robots Dash & Dot will be featured during an Innovation Show-and-Tell organized by the non-profit Code.org. This event, which will be held at the NASDAQ headquarters in NYC and will also feature demonstrations by Sphero and Google Cardboard, among others.
From Dec. 7 through 13, educators, extracurricular leaders, and parents alike are being encouraged to introduce kids to free, online Hour of Code tutorials.
During the seven weeks of Code-in, kids get to choose the tasks that interest them and then work on projects covering “documentation, coding, training, research, quality assurance, user interface and outreach tasks”.
In the Hattiesburg Public School District, computer technology teachers will be taking students through some basic computer programming, said Albert Galeas, the district’s instructional technologist. This means lots of events around the country with a focus on getting kids interested in computer science.
“They love coding and the problem-solving techniques they develop to be successful at it will take them to new levels in other STEM programs”, said Benson.
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– Less than 2.4% of college students graduate with a degree in computer science. “But it’s in such high demand, it would not be fair not to expose our students to it”. He will also talk about the 100 million students who have found success from Hour of Code. Photo via Kristin Osborne/University of Washington.UW students participate in the Hour of Code at the largest lecture hall on campus. “We’re trying to make sure our students are competitive in that global market”.
