The webinar has passed. To be alerted of upcoming Breakout Mentors events, please join our mailing list. Gaining admittance to the best colleges today is incredibly competitive. Harvard accepts a paltry 5.6% of applicants while Stanford is at a meager 7.1%. You’ve probably heard that these schools could accept only valedictorians or perfect SAT scores if they wanted. But you know all this. You know that you should be well rounded and differentiate yourself on your applications. Only … do you [...]

Last weekend at Stanford 100 young students came together on a blazingly hot day to code. I wanted to post a brief recap to get you excited about joining in on the fun for future Hack the Future events. There were approximately 8 different stations setup with different activities for the students to try. Each student was free to set their own schedule for the day – they could go to whatever station they were interested in, stay as long or [...]

Hack the Future puts on hackathons just for kids in 5th to 12th grade. Did the word hackathon just zoom past your head? Hack meaning to code, tinker, program. -athon, same suffix as marathon, meaning its an all day event with plenty of time to create something awesome! This weekend’s event at Stanford is the fourth event Hack the Future has put on just for kids in the Bay Area. The best part? No experience necessary! A student can come in [...]

The webinar has passed. To be alerted of upcoming Breakout Mentors events, please join our mailing list. There have never been greater benefits to learning computer programming, yet your child’s school may not be providing the proper introduction. Breakout Mentors is hosting a free webinar to help parents give their student an advantage in today’s computer driven world. On the webinar you will learn: Why programming is valuable and the importance of starting early How to identify if programming is right [...]

The importance of beginning to program young is being understood by more and more educators. Of course there are some private schools that built curriculum around computer programming years ago. Or at public schools there might have been one teacher who introduces programming into their classroom. Or maybe someone on a tech staff that helped various tech-minded students and teachers in the school. But there is also a gradual shift to make programming more mainstream. The ability of younger students learning [...]