Kids Coding Mentors
There is a massive shift underway in education: more and more resources and courses are available online to learn nearly every subject. Access to all this knowledge makes it an incredible time to be a student! One natural question you might ask - …
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Can you believe it is already 2015? With the new year comes New Year's resolutions. Do you have one to support your kid's interests? There are thousands of kids in the Bay Area that want to learn to code. Some just love Minecraft and think it …
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Today is the last day of Computer Science Education Week by Code.org. It is a huge international push to introduce kids to programming by starting with an Hour of Code. Schools all over the world participated and millions of kids learned how fun it …
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Last weekend we held the first Breakout Mentors Project Showcase event. It was a chance for all the Breakout Mentors students to come together, share what they have been working on, and draw inspiration from each others' projects. I was blown away by …
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It has been a well established fact for years that there simply aren't as many women engineers as men. Computer science has one of the lowest ratios with anywhere between 5 and 20 percent female, depending upon the source. But there have been a few …
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Breakout Mentors has a unique approach to helping kids learn to code - we primarily do 1-on-1 mentoring and occasionally small groups capped at 4 kids. Our goal is to provide a depth in kids programming education that isn't available anywhere else. …
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Naseem is a passionate mentor working with a two students in San Francisco. His background is ideal for teaching kids to code - after dabbling in programming as a kid, he went on to learn the academic side of CS first at Harvard, then UCLA, where he …
In the past I have shared articles written by Sheena Vaidyanathan. Mrs. V is a local thought leader in the kids programming space and on the front lines bringing coding into the classroom. She is a rotating teacher for all the Los Altos School …
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