Kids Coding Mentors
We've been waiting several years for an update to Scratch, and this is the big one we've been hoping for! Scratch 1.4 was released in the mid-2009 and Scratch 2.0 will go live May 9, 2013. There are many reasons to be excited about this …
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I have heard the following question many times in the last month - will Breakout Mentors have a summer camp? Unfortunately the answer is no, we will not be offering any summer camps this year. Considering so many parents are looking for this format, …
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The drag-and-drop programming environment Scratch can look like a child's toy - it features little cartoon characters controlled by stacking blocks together. Yet it teaches many important programming concepts such as loops, conditionals, and …
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In the past we've touched on the trendy buzz for "learning to code" and how people as diverse as Michael Bloomberg and will-i-am have jumped on the bandwagon. If you have people that are wildly successful in other disciplines (like business, …
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Berkeley is a first year PhD student at Stanford and works with some of Breakout Mentors' most advanced students. With his extensive experience he is perfectly suited for introducing computer science topics to students that have been quickly …
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This week Code.org officially launched with a great video by Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and more. The video covers how they personally got started programming, why it's important, and where it can take you. Watch the whole inspirational video …
Kevin is a Stanford sophomore studying Computer Science and a Bay Area native. Like many of our mentors, he started programming in high school and enjoyed it so much he decided to keep with the subject through college. With Breakout Mentors he weekly …
For people that grew up with the internet, they can't imagine life without it, and don't give a thought to how it works. An analogy is how my generation views the radio or television. There are some seriously impressive things going on under the hood …
